NIFA/SAFECON

Annual flight competition celebrates skill, camaraderie, and a commitment to safety.

Skies, Skills, and Scores: The Aerial Arena of SAFECON 2023

The annual competition is set to be held this year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

For the first time since 2019, NIFA SAFECON hosts an in-person national championship at the Ohio State University Airport.

Students from 28 schools will compete to show off their skills and knowledge in aviation.

FlightSafety International announced on Tuesday that it has made an investment in the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) that includes naming rights to SAFECON National Championship. This commitment will coin the NIFA championship “The SAFECON National Championship Powered by Flightsafety.”  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Both NIFA and FlightSafety have a long history […]

The National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) kicked off the next round of its Safecon events in region 8 on Tuesday. The competition is being held at Terre Haute International Airport (KHUF) in Terre Haute, Indiana. NIFA serves as a forum for competitive and non-competitive collegiate aviators. The goal is to help them expand their studies […]

The pandemic forced the 2021 NIFA SAFECON (National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference) Championship to be held virtually this year without the flying segments. After completion of the online events, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Golden Eagles Flight Team from its Prescott, Arizona, campus won the event, making them 13-time national SAFECON champions and […]

Following the trend of many upcoming aviation events, the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) has cancelled SAFECON 2020, the national flight competition that was scheduled to take place in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from May 18 to 23. The competition would have marked the 100th anniversary of NIFA’s annual collegiate flight competitions, and for the first time […]