Thu, Sep 03, 2020
This Year, The Scholarship Includes More Money That Will Be Reimbursed To Each Applicant
While 2020 may not be the best year aviation has ever had, it does have its bright spots... and a few of them can be found in one of the many generous aviation scholarship programs that allow new aviators to join our ranks.
The VA Department of Aviation tells us that the Chad Weaver Aviation Scholarship Program is available this year with some new opportunities to help you pay for your aviation ground school and flight training. This year the scholarship includes more money that will be reimbursed to each applicant and it covers more training costs to include Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) training.
The Chad Weaver Aviation Scholarship Program is dedicated to a friend and colleague of all those who call airports home. Born in Virginia, Chad was a lifelong lover of aviation who earned his pilot’s license while working as an engineer for an industrial factory in Oklahoma.
Chad moved back to Virginia and, after a year working for the Virginia Department of Transportation, became a member of the Airport Services Division of the Virginia Department of Aviation. Over the course of his life, Chad owned several aircraft, but was best known for his small yellow Acro Sport II that was hangered at New Kent County Airport (W96). Chad was also an avid restorer of vintage American cars, an aviation photographer and an alumnus of North Carolina State University (NCSU).
This scholarship will reimburse $750 to Virginia residents for private pilot ground school and/or flight training or CFI at a Virginia flight school. That’s right, CFI training will now be reimbursed under the Chad Weaver Aviation Scholarship.
The program is open to students who began flight training and/or began ground school on or after July 1, 2020. Students must have a current FAA medical. A maximum of 25 scholarships will be awarded, and only one per student. Students who received this scholarship in previous years are not eligible to apply.
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