A Biography of Aviation Sisters – Kelly Anyadike & Kimberly Anyadike

Kelly Anyadike Biography

In 2008, on her 16th birthday, Kelly made her way into the Guinness Book of world Records by being the youngest African-American female to solo in four different fixed-wing aircraft on the same day. Kelly has been involved in Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum’s flight program since she was 15.

Kelly has completed college-level art, speech and sign language courses at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. She has been a junior lifeguard and enjoys surfing and golf. She has been tap dancing for 3 years at the Lula Washington Dance Academy, where she is also studying modern ballet. Kelly is a youth member at her church where she volunteers donating food and clothing to the homeless in downtown Los Angeles. She reads music and plays piano and the flute. Kelly enjoys writing and art and is taking art classes at Plaza De La Raza.

Now 17, Kelly will be a Junior in the fall at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies and will be attending UCLA after she graduates in 2010.

Kimberly Anyadike Biography

Born in Los Angeles in 1994, Kimberly Anyadike never remembers a time in her fifteen years she wasn’t interested in flying. Her passion for aviation began with a 20-minute demo flight at Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, a flight school and youth mentoring center in Compton, CA. Kimberly washed airplanes and did other tasks to earn “museum dollars” that she traded in for flight lessons. Among the mentors available to kids in the program are several Tuskegee Airmen, who Kimberly has been immensely inspired by.

Exposed to a wide range of activities, Kim was a junior lifeguard at Venice Beach for five years, where she also learned how to surf. She attended the Lula Washington Dance Academy, taking ballet, hip-hop and tap dance classes. Kimberly is a youth member at her church where she learned how to read music, and is now learning how to play piano, violin and guitar.

Most recently she has completed college courses at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, the Saturday Science Academy at Charles Drew University and is taking a range of art courses at the Plaza De La Raza. She volunteers to feed the homeless in downtown Los Angeles and is very active in her church, while maintaining her G.P.A in order to attend Stanford, Yale or Harvard University upon graduating from high school in 2012. Kimberly’s career goal is to become a cardio-vascular surgeon with a pilot’s license.