Colorado Students Soar with WINGS Over the Rockies Flight Training Scholarships

WINGS Over the Rockies announces 2023 flight training scholarship recipients. Twenty-two Colorado learner pilots have been selected for awards worth up to $12,000 to enable them to pursue private pilot certification.

Amy Wilder

Wednesday, August 09, 2023 at 12:27 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Wings Over the Rockies (WINGS) has awarded 22 flight training scholarships to Colorado students for 2023.
These scholarships, valued at $8,000 or $12,000 each, aim to help recipients achieve private pilot certification for single-engine airplanes.
Funded by the James C. Ray Foundation, WINGS has provided 125 scholarships totaling $236,000 to aspiring pilots aged 15-18 over the past four years.
The rigorous selection process includes evaluations and interviews, and scholarship recipients receive mentorship throughout their training.

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Wings Over the Rockies (WINGS), a Colorado-based nonprofit organization centered on the state’s air and space museum and dedicated to aviation education, has selected recipients for its 2023 scholarship cycle.

A total of 22 Colorado students have been selected to receive 2023 WINGS’ flight training scholarships valued at either $8,000 or $12,000, based on their flight training experience, to pursue private pilot certification for single-engine airplanes.