The Aviation Museum of Kentucky that's located in Lexington, just opened a new exhibit honoring Kentucky women.

Several pilots featured in the exhibit attended the ribbon cutting.

So did State Senator Amanda mays Bledsoe, who highlighted ways the state legislature is investing in the aviation industry right here in Kentucky.

We're celebrating a very unique and wonderful display of Kentucky women in aviation.

It's very, very special.

Had not seen this until today, but first flight was with my dad was taking flying lessons over in Cumberland, Kentucky, on a gray strip after World War two.

He used his GI Bill, so I went over one time to fly with his instructor before I was nine years old.

I love to see plexi from the air.

So I've flown to Alaska from here.

From Munich, Germany to the castle.

I had flown and why I love.

The sustainable aviation fuel is a new program that we're working through to have sustainable filter corn, to have accessibility so that more we want to use jet fuel and diesel use it differently.

So that's an area it's very exciting for the future.

And the state.

And then we've actually added some money for new routes and lets in Louisville and Cincinnati we've added tens of millions, said let's add an airport to develop some new areas of runway space and new places to hold airplanes.

And so there's the additional 4 million for the aviation museum.

The aviation space is massive for our economy.

We are a distributed state, so we do a lot of of moving of product if you all.

But we do a lot of moving of people to.

So having more routes, more access throughout the state is really critical.

I think it's important for young women to get a vision of what they could be in the future, and to see the history of where women have come and what they're doing today, I think gives them a vision of saying they can do it, too, and they can do more than what we've done.

And so having something they can see in person and relate to those stories, I think it's really exciting for them and it hopefully will inspire a lot of young women to get into Stem industry and aviation in particular.

I try to go around and meet the different ones in different camps and we the 90 nines, Amelia age group, we sponsor, a lot of girls to take the aviation care and I get to.

Instill some of my love into them.

So.

That's wonderful.

Alongside outstanding female pilots, female engineers, educators and air traffic managers are also featured in the exhibit.

The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is located next to the Lexington Bluegrass Airport.