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NEWS
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| Signs of recovery in aircraft shipment report |
| General aviation manufacturers reported increases in helicopter and piston airplane deliveries in the first three months of 2021 that were deemed encouraging signs that the industry is recovering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Piston airplane deliveries increased 7.3 percent, from 219 to 235 aircraft, in the first three months of 2021 compared with the same quarter in 2020.
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| AOPA awards $1.1 million to 2021 scholarship recipients |
| The AOPA Foundation has awarded more than $1.1 million to 124 scholarship recipients—high school students and teachers, aspiring pilots, pilots in training, and pilots pursuing advanced ratings. This year’s scholarship winners included a diverse group of pilots and future pilots, ranging in age from 15 to 62. More than 40 percent of the recipients are women, and more than 20 percent are people of color.
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| 12-year-old looking to become youngest female pilot in Utah |
| Twelve-year-old Sparkle Miner, of Provo, Utah, comes from a family of pilots—and she hopes to join their ranks as soon as she is legally old enough to take the private pilot checkride. Miner has finished ground school and is taking flying lessons, and she has a role model in Chief Pilot Kendra Hart at Pilot Makers Advanced Flight Academy in Provo. Miner told KSL-TV: "I was born to fly."
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| Senate introduces bill to create National Center for the Advancement of Aviation |
| Backed by AOPA and more than 180 organizations, the proposed National Center for the Advancement of Aviation Act would create an independent center to foster cooperation for, among other things, facilitating collaboration among commercial, general, and military aviation sectors to address looming talent shortages. The NCAA would shape a generation of new pilots, aerospace engineers, unmanned aircraft systems operators, aviation maintenance technicians, and others.
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