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TAF AWARDS
Scholarship Awards for flight training, aircraft and powerplant technician, air traffic controller, meteorology, engineering, and more.
1999 Awardee, Rob Ross III,” the single award helped launch a lifelong aviation career, (over 26 years and counting), spanning flight instruction, charter pilot, airline pilot and air traffic control tower chief”.
2002 Awardee, James Arnold, “whose first flight instructor ignited his passion for aviation, …I fought the FAA for months for my medical certificate, as I never thought a one-eyed person could become a pilot! …And now as school administrator for Laurel Highlands Aeronautical Academy…I have come full circle…and measure success …in teaching young people to fly hand-flown aircraft in old school ways, helping them to build lifetime careers”.
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics Awardees are verifiably employed by:
Endeavor Air
GE Aerospace
United Airlines
High Flight Academy
American Airlines
Republic Airlines
May 2025 - The Aviation Foundation congratulates the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics Clifford Ball Awardee:
Andrew Reichert
The Aviation Foundation congratulates the final 2024 Clifford Ball Awards recipients of the year.
Dominik Grego Cooper and Kyle Lander from the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics in Airframe and Powerplant.
The Aviation Foundation congratulates the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics 2024 Clifford Ball Awardees:
Stephen T. Pendrick
Jennifer Hurrell, Monroeville, PA
Zachary DeSchon, Coraopolis, PA
Joseph D. Price, West Leechburgh, PA
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