Youth scholarship available to pay for pilot training

Special to The Clinton Courier

Local youth who are – or who are about to be – seventeen years old are encouraged to apply for a scholarship that will provide funding for them to complete training for a private pilot’s certificate.

Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) Chapter 276, which is based at John Bell Williams airport in Raymond, is looking for applicants for the Ray Scholarship, which is awarded to EAA chapters that have obtained certain status in the organization and have won the scholarship.

Applicants for the scholarship must have a high interest in aviation and in obtaining their pilot’s license. The scholarship, valued at eleven thousand dollars, is to be used for primary training. The local chapter will award the scholarship to an individual who exhibits strong potential for success at obtaining their private pilot certificate.

Applicants should have a strong interest in aviation, good moral character, evidence of good work ethic and success in goal-oriented endeavors. The applicant should be seventeen years of age at the time of the award and be able to complete training prior to the age of twenty-one.

Applicants who wish to apply should provide a curriculum vitae (resume) and an essay on why they are interested in aviation and what they plan on doing with the private pilot certificate.
Curriculum vitae and essays are being accepted through the first part of August. Applications should be given to Michelle Jackson, Manager at John Bell Williams Airport, or David B. Wheat, M.D. at Clinton Family Care.

For more information, call Dr. Wheat at 601-924-1877 or Michele Jackson at 601-857-3884.