The AOPA Foundation is awarding $2.2 million in scholarships—the largest amount in the foundation’s history—to nearly 400 recipients out of more than 6,800 who applied.
Rachel Skirvin says you need three things to be a pilot: “time, money, and passion.” The 2024 AOPA Foundation scholarship awards are helping aspiring aviators tick one of these boxes.
Two schools incorporating the AOPA Foundation High School Aviation STEM Curriculum into their lesson plans won the Grand Prize in the twenty-ninth annual National School Board Association’s Magna Awards program.
Launched on June 1, the 2024 You Can Fly Challenge is giving those passionate about flying an opportunity to directly support general aviation. Donations to the AOPA Foundation through the challenge will be matched by the Ray Foundation, and will support major initiatives to promote the future of GA.
AOPA President Mark Baker will be the 2024 recipient of the Donald D. Engen Aero Club Trophy for Aviation Excellence in recognition of his fierce leadership and passionate commitment to general aviation.
Kentucky state agencies and the AOPA Foundation You Can Fly program partnered to develop the Aviation Job Experience and Career Preparation Curriculum (CPC). The CPC was introduced on February 20 with a presentation at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky in Lexington.
Helping to ensure a bright future for general aviation through important initiatives that grow the pilot population and help keep it safe, AOPA members and the GA community once again came through in droves.
Margot Eld wanted to be a pilot for as long as she could remember. Margot became interested in hot air ballooning because her father-in-law supplied propane to the balloonists. She earned her balloon rating in 1978 and purchased her hot air balloon in 1979. In 1981, Margot earned her fixed wing rating, and bought her first airplane, a Beechcraft Musketeer, in 1982.
K-12 students at 20 Nebraska schools will benefit from a $2 million U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) grant that will launch Operation Taking Flight and initiate the Bellevue Public Schools (BPS) Aviation Academy.
With an intent to meet the ongoing and increasing demand for pilots and mechanics, AOPA and Choose Aerospace are teaming up to share ideas, best practices, and training resources.
Students at Williamsport High School in Maryland now have access to 12 new simulators at this three-pathway high school program championed by the AOPA Foundation.
The 2024 AOPA Foundation scholarship program opened September 5 with more than $1 million in scholarships for flight training, aviation maintenance, airport management, and more.
Nearly 150 students, teachers, and other aspiring pilots were awarded funds that will help them pursue their dreams for a future in the aviation industry.
The 2023 You Can Fly Challenge kicks off June 1, giving donors a tremendous opportunity to give back to a passion that has given all of us so much. Gifts will be matched by the Ray Foundation and will support major initiatives to protect the future of general aviation.
Steward Bailey, an aerospace engineering teacher in Houston received the inaugural Texas Aviation Educator of the Year award from the Texas Department of Transportation Aviation Division.
The AOPA Foundation program serving more than 16,000 high school students in the current school year has landed major federal support to help boost this ongoing effort to educate and inspire even more future pilots and aviation professionals.
AOPA received thousands of responses to the call for submissions for the 2023 Flight Training Experience Survey. Six flight schools and six flight instructors have been tapped as the best in their region.
You may have flown the virtual version of this airplane over the Chicago skyline, or upside down over Michigan Avenue, and now's your chance to own the real thing.
Furthering AOPA initiatives that promote and protect general aviation, AOPA members and the GA community rose to the challenge in 2022, raising more than $3.1 million and unlocking an additional match of $2.5 million from the Ray Foundation.
Aviators know they have two families: the family they are born into and the family they gain by joining the close-knit general aviation community. Smart estate planning, including supporting the AOPA Foundation’s Legacy Society, can help you ensure a bright future for both.
The Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) will host a Classroom to the Sky program for K through 12 educators interested in igniting a passion for aviation in their students.
The 2023 AOPA Foundation scholarship program opened September 5, with scholarships available for flight training, aircraft maintenance, and other aviation-related pursuits.
Totaling nearly $1.2 million, these AOPA Foundation scholarships will help high school students and teachers, aspiring pilots, pilots seeking advanced ratings, and those pursuing aviation maintenance or other aerospace careers reach their aviation goals.
The 2022 You Can Fly Challenge took off on June 1, providing donors the opportunity to enhance the future of aviation and have their gift matched by the Ray Foundation.