Flight Training Scholarships & Grants

Earning pilot licenses is an pricey pursuit--the expense of heading from zero flight time to an instrument-rated industrial pilot, the minimal licenses necessary to get a flying work, can get to $35,000 as of February 2011. Thankfully, college students can earn scholarships and grants to reduce the expense of flight instruction.

Lawrence Ginocchio Aviation Scholarship

The Nationwide Commercial Aviation Association delivers the Lawrence Ginocchio Aviation Scholarship to 5 deserving pupils enrolled at NBAA-member schools. College students can utilize the $5,000 (as of February 2011) award to shell out for school tuition and costs, such as school-sanctioned flight instruction. To qualify for the scholarship, candidates need to have to be sophomores, juniors or seniors with at minimum a 3.0 GPA (on a four.0 scale), in accordance to the NBAA. Pupils wishing to utilize really should deliver an software kind, resume, official university transcript, essay and two letters of suggestion to the NBAA.

Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarships

The Ninety-Nines, a federation of feminine pilots, troubles the Amelia Earhart memorial scholarships to Ninety-Nines members hunting to undergo flight instruction to earn innovative pilot ratings. The scholarships, which cover the full expense of earning a pilot rating, are offered to feminine pilots with latest Federal Aviation Administration flight medicals and (at minimum) personal pilot licenses. To use for an Amelia Earhart Scholarship, a Ninety-Nines member ought to deliver a finished software deal by mail no later on than the December 1 deadline to:

Ellen Herring, AEMSF Trustee

1181 W. Mountain Nugget Generate

Green Valley, AZ 85614

ACONE Scholarship Fund

The Aero Club of New England, founded in 1902, presents grants to younger men and women from the New England place pursuing careers in flying. ACONE's scholarship fund awards dollars to pupils who indicate educational merit and/or fiscal require. Pupils can utilize ACONE scholarships, which change in sum, to shell out for pilot flight teaching. College students should have present FAA medical certificates, as properly as pilot licenses and existing flight evaluations (except candidates for an first pilot teaching grant). In addition, candidates need to be pursuing flight teaching at a New England flight school.

Factors

To win a flight coaching scholarship, men and women ought to place collectively an software package deal that demonstrates their qualifications and is free of spelling or grammar mistakes. Several flight teaching scholarship dollars need candidates to deliver letters of suggestion, essays and copies of flight ratings along with software kinds. Flight Coaching, an aviation education journal, indicates acquiring at minimum one letter of suggestion from an individual inside of the aviation market, as nicely as thoroughly clean copies of any aviation medicals or certificates.