The National Association of Priests Pilots meeting in Richfield this week.
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The National Association of Priests Pilots (NAPP) will hold their annual convention at Saint Victor Catholic Church in Richfield beginning Monday with many flying in from across the United States.
These Priest-Pilots are arriving at the Medina Municipal Airport.
The convention will run through Thursday. It includes a tour of the NASA/Glenn Research Center along with a special Mass in memory of deceased NAPP members.
More than 30 priests will participate who share the priesthood and the special bond of being a priest-pilot as they use their aircraft to minister to the faithful.
It all started in the summer of 1963 with two Kentucky priest pilots.
Fathers Henry Haacke and Bob Wendeln, took a flying vacation to the West Coast. When they stopped for fuel, lodging or sight seeing they asked the airport personnel if they knew of any priests that flew. They were amazed at the number of flying padres they heard about on that trip.
By the time they returned home they decided to put notices in some of the flying magazines, inviting any priest pilots to a gathering July 12 - 15, 1964 in Carrollton, Kentucky.
Henry and Bob hosted over 90 priests at that fly in, and the National Association of Priest Pilots was born.
This meeting is hosted by Father Allen Corrigan, Pastor of St. Victor parish in Richfield. He is also a licensed pilot.
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