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PILOT BRIEFING

32 NEWS 34 BUDGET BUY 36 GIFT GUIDE 38 FLY-OUTS 40 TEST PILOT 46 AOPA FLY-INS

GIVING BACK GRANT RECIPIENTS

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GIVING BACK

The AOPA Foundation's Giving
Back Program awards grants
to nonprofits doing good work
through general aviation. The
following organizations have
been selected to receive a 2014
Giving Back grant:

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AIRSERV INTERNATIONAL:

Provides air transportation for
humanitarian programs and
disaster relief.

AVIATION ADVENTURES: Provides
hands-on introductory aviation
programs for girls.
CAVU: Provides environmental
education and informs communities about the health of critical
ecosystems through an aerial
perspective.
CIVIL AIR PATROL NEW YORK
CITY GROUP: Helps New York City

youth understand and appreciate
aviation.

GREAT EASTERN BALLOON
ASSOCIATION: Educates hot air

balloonists and crew in the wires
and obstruction environment.

In the pilot seat
Lighting the spark in young people
THE YOUNG AVIATORS PROGRAM puts
14- to 18-year-old teens in the pilot
seat through daily simulator and aircraft training. This training is done in a
pleasant, informal atmosphere and coordinated through EAA Chapter 838, which
is located at John H. Batten Airport in
Racine, Wisconsin. The five-day program
runs each summer.
Students receive innovative
daily classroom instruction in aerodynamics, principles of flight, flight

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OPERATION MIGRATION: Restores
migratory population of endangered whooping cranes in the
eastern migratory flyway.
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES:

Connects patients to pilots for
hospital flights.

SCAPA DISASTER AIRLIFT
RESPONSE TEAM: Provides rapid,

efficient, and safe disaster relief in
California.

physics, navigation, flight planning,
aviation weather, and other flying-related
subjects.
This program lights a spark for youth
interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through exposure
to aviation. The program works because
many unpaid volunteers make it possible.
Young Aviators was a 2013 recipient of an
AOPA Foundation Giving Back grant.
WEB

www.young-aviators.com

TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION:

Inspires students and adults to
become pilots in command of their
own lives.

WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR
AND SPACE MUSEUM: Expanding

facilities at Denver's Centennial
Airport.

ON THE

WEB

www.aopafoundation/
giving-back



http://www.young-aviators.com http://www.aopafoundation/giving-back http://www.aopafoundation/giving-back

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