AOPA Announced $1Million Scholarship

The aircraft owners and pilots association will award 100 scholarships of $10,000 each to 80 exceptional aviation-minded high school students ages 15 to 18, and up to 20 teachers dedicated to advancing aviation education in their classrooms.

“Scholarship recipients can use their awarded funds to pay direct flight training expenses toward a primary pilot certificate. To be eligible, students and teachers must be AOPA members. Student scholarship recipients must complete a flight training milestone—achieving either their first solo or earning a primary pilot certificate—within one year of receiving a scholarship.” Requirements:

“Teachers who apply for a scholarship must be full-time employees of a school or school system working to prepare students for a future in aviation.”


Application deadline for the "You Can Fly" High School Flight Training Scholarships is April 1, 2019.


The scholarships are made possible by a $1 million grant from the Ray Foundation to the AOPA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Read more at AOPA’s site:  https://www.aopa.org/


“You Can Fly is AOPA’s multi-pronged program to get pilots flying and keep them flying, and to build a larger, more vibrant general aviation community.  A flight training scholarship can be life changing for a recipient who has dreamed of becoming a pilot but considered that goal unattainable.” Read more at AOPA’s site:
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/january/flight-training-magazine/you-can-fly-next-generation

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