NBAA Announces Recipients of Inaugural Young Professionals in Business Aviation Scholarship

Contact: Dan Hubbard, 202-431-5970, [email protected]

Washington, DC, Oct. 19, 2024 - The National Business Aviation Association's (NBAA's) Young Professionals (YoPro) in Business Aviation Council has announced the first recipients of its newly created scholarship.

The recipients are and their awards are:

• Regch De Leon: NBAA - Safety Manager Certificate
• Leah Murphy: NBAA - On Demand PDP Course - Dynamics of Empowered Leadership
• Samuel Caspers: NBAA - Business Aircraft Scheduler Certificate
• Arial Young: Medaire Management of In-Flight Illness & Injury Training
• Sid Magee: Universal Weather Aviation, Inc - FAA Aircraft Dispatcher Certification Course
• Rebeccah McCarthy: PlaneSmart - Discovery Flight
• Inna Matsyshyn: Thrust Flight Group - Discovery Flight

NBAA's YoPro Council is working to bring training opportunities to the business aviation community's young professionals. Career and professional development are paramount to growing in one's career and the council is working to support this through generous donations from NBAA member companies.

Donors for the 2024 YoPro Scholarship are:

• Thrust Flight
• PlaneSense
• Universal Weather & Aviation
• MedAire
• NBAA

Learn more about the NBAA Young Professionals in Business Aviation program.

NBAA Charities offers monetary and training scholarships for both students and aviation professionals, such as flight department managers, pilots, maintenance technicians, schedulers, dispatchers, flight attendants and flight technicians. These scholarships, which total nearly $100,000 annually, are administered by NBAA standing committees and would not be possible without the generous financial support of NBAA member donors.

Learn more about NBAA's scholarships.

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Founded in 1947 and based in Washington, DC, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is the leading organization for companies that rely on general aviation aircraft to help make their businesses more efficient, productive and successful. The association represents more than 10,000 company and professional members and provides more than 100 products and services to the business aviation community, including the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), the world's largest civil aviation trade show. Learn more about NBAA at nbaa.org.

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