Students Help Paint Mural at Airport
Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Gault Street Elementary School painted on a different type of canvas at the Van Nuys Airport on Wednesday.
The airport commissioned muralist John Zender Estrada to paint, with the students’ help, a 10-foot, aviation-themed mural in Hangar 110. The painting depicts a control tower, a helicopter and a fuel truck, among other subjects.
The hangar will be used to exhibit Vinny, the airport’s “kiddie airplane,” said Richard French, airport spokesman.
“It was at one time a fully functional airplane. It’s something [children] can get up close to and touch, get in the cockpit,” French said.
Van Nuys Airport is the school’s sponsor in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Adopt-a-School program. In the program, businesses agree to provide assistance to schools as needed, said Patti Hecht, a Gault Street Elementary coordinator.
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