‘Younger Sheldon’ Star Iain Armitage Talks ‘Having Enjoyable Flying’ After Present’s Finish (Unique)

Iain Armitage is flying excessive following the tip of Younger Sheldon! 

The 16-year-old actor, who performed the youthful model of Jim Parsons‘ character Sheldon Cooper in The Large Bang Concept on the CBS present, attended the Youngsters’s Hospital Los Angeles 2024 Gala on Saturday, Oct. 5.

The younger actor shared that he was excited to attend the occasion, which was held in tribute to hospital pediatric staff and sufferers on the CHLA, per the group’s web site. Moreover, Younger Sheldon creator Chuck Lorre was honored in the course of the ceremony for his contributions to the hospital.

“Mr. Chuck Lorre invited me, and I am so honored to get to be right here from his invite. But in addition, I am an enormous fan of the work that CHLA has carried out, and I am so pleased to be right here on behalf of each of them,” Armitage tells PEOPLE.

Armitage additionally chatted to PEOPLE solely about life after the hit TV sequence, which ended its ultimate season in Might. “I simply acquired my pilot’s license, or my pupil pilot’s license,” he says on the occasion.

“I hopefully will get my personal [pilot’s license] after I’m 17. And I have been having a bunch of enjoyable flying whereas I am right here in L.A.,” Armitage coninues.

Including that he’s already taken his grandmother and mother up within the air with him, he shares that he, “ truly turned 16 with my grandmother within the aircraft on my sixteenth birthday.” 

Armitage celebrated his sixteenth birthday on July 15, however he defined that the birthday festivities have been “enjoyable,” although slightly extra “subdued” whereas he was flying along with his grandmother as a passenger.

“We had a sort of a enjoyable, form of extra subdued celebration within the air. After which proper after I touched down, we had a celebration on the airport at Van Nuys, which was a lot enjoyable,” he says.

Regardless of having such a younger pilot, Armitage says was was “impressed” that his grandmother wasn’t nervous in the course of the expertise.

“She was surprisingly utterly calm and picked up. I used to be very, very impressed,” he says, noting that he “was flying such valuable cargo.”

In truth, his grandmother’s “largest concern was having to climb up on the wing of the Piper [plane] to get in,” he says, including that after that, “we had one of the best time. After which we had a beautiful dinner that night as nicely with a bunch of family and friends, which was nice.”

Armitage posted some candy snaps from the birthday outing on his Instagram on the time, writing within the caption, partly, that the outing within the air along with his grandmother was, “a part of my pilot coaching.”

Later, on July 29, he revealed within the caption of one other submit that he had gotten to do his “first solo flight in a aircraft!,” describing it as “one of many easiest days of my life!!”

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In the meantime, when requested by PEOPLE on Oct. 5 whether or not he is taking slightly downtime after all of the exhausting work of seven seasons on successful TV present, he says he feels “fortunate” to have had the chance.

“I am positive it looks as if exhausting work, however I have been so fortunate. It is the best, most enjoyable job on this planet. I get to play for a dwelling, and I really feel so honored and fortunate to get to try this,” he says, explaining that he is “slightly bit taking time without work, but additionally not likely. I might like to get again into it. So, I am undoubtedly doing auditions and stuff.”

“I have been having a bunch of enjoyable flying whereas I am right here in L.A. I am gonna be performing some extra flying, which will be a whole lot of enjoyable, hopefully some films and TV quickly we’ll see,” he had earlier stated.

In February, Armitage spoke to PEOPLE asYounger Sheldon started its ultimate season, reflecting on the present and the position that he first auditioned for when he was 8 years outdated.

“It has been half my life, which is sort of wild to consider, however simply so enjoyable, so great, and I could not have requested for a greater solution to develop up,” he stated on the time.

“Each single individual I get to work with, I really feel so honored to get to be working with and get to be their costar or … get to be a part of their work and a part of their livelihood,” Armitage added of the present, which he starred in with the likes of Annie Potts and Zoe Perry.

The younger actor is ready to look subsequent within the upcoming Christmas-themed animated film Scoob!: Vacation Hang-out, alongside a powerful forged that features the late Andre Braugher, Mark Hamill, Cristo Fernández and Ming-Na Wen.