"...a ton of kids would be excited as hell..." works just as well, and wouldn't be in danger of making anyone feel excluded.
This is minor, no one instance will change things, but the cumulative effect is a society where women are vastly under-represented in areas like tech/STEM, or men are under-represented in child care.
And a ton of kids are excited. We went several times Technik Museum Sinsheim and once to Speyer and our daughter (4-5 at the time) loved peeking around in the planes.
Disregarding all politics, it's a statistical fact females are excluded from lots of activities early in their life due to giving various activities gender specific contexts. And this is a thing.
And vice versa for boys. So it's not okay to say often "this is girls|boys stuff" until people reach puberty when gender specific contexts actually start to matter.
Unless you understood that and are suggesting that women are actually less able to be pilots?