Now to more coverage from last week's road trip to Bowling Green.

Our next stop is about those who travel the path of higher elevation aviation heritage Park and Museum honors aviators from south central Kentucky.

Its message for the next generation.

The sky's the limit.

They turn heads at the Aviation Heritage Park and Museum, those restored warbirds that have called the park home more than 15 years.

They're all part of the story of somebody who came from our region and went on to do great things.

Let's find an aviator.

Now let's find an aircraft to honor that aviator.

Aviators like Colonel Arnie Franklin, born in Simpson County and raised here in Bowling Green.

I was a fighter pilot for the 30 years that I served.

He flew this F-111, currently on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

People ask me, what's it like?

And I say, I want you to close your eyes and think of the most fun you've ever thing you've ever done in your life.

And this is 100 times more fun than that.

Franklin story is featured inside the newer addition to the park, a $2.5 million, 12,000 square foot museum that opened in the last two years.

I was very humble that they would consider me worthy of being on display with all of these war heroes.

People like astronaut Terry Wilkie of Russellville, who joined the United States Marine Corps and flew four missions to space.

And Willa Brown of Glasgow, the first African-American woman to get a commercial pilot's license.

And when there was segregation back in the day for World War Two, she joined the Civil Air Patrol, started teaching the Tuskegee Airmen, the people who would fly those beautiful Red tail Mustangs guarding those bombers that were going in to battle.

Aviation Heritage Park and Museum honors some 60 aviators, including the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association, otherwise called the River rats.

And our mission, really, as we tell the story of south central Kentucky aviators, is to let everybody come through here, know that anything is possible.

Our mission is really to educate, inspire and engage.

Whatever their aspiration may be, whether it's piloting an airplane or another high achievement, encourage them to reach for the stars.

Take your life like you are a fighter pilot.

To do that, you have to believe in yourself.

You have to work hard.

You can't let anything stop you.

No matter what you want to be, no matter what you want to do, if you keep focused, if you don't let anything.

Don't let anybody tell you you can't be that.

And just stay focused.

You can do it.

I'm a perfect example of someone that was able to do that.

Colonel Franklin service included extensive combat experience in Southeast Asia and helping lead the U.S. Air Force portion of the 1986 strike on Libya.

You can learn more about his story and so many others by visiting the museum on Three Springs Road in Bowling Green.