Scholarship Information

​​Organizations and institutions across the country provide scholarships for students pursuing careers in aviation and aerospace. Scholarships are available for individuals learning how to fly, going to college or pursuing graduate degrees.

• Air Traffic Controller Association (ATCA)​
  The ATCA provides scholarships for individuals seeking higher education in air traffic controlling.
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• Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Foundation Scholarship Program
  The AEA Foundation provides various scholarships to students seeking careers in the aircraft electronics or aviation maintenance industry.
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• Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
  The AOPA offers four flight training scholarship programs. The high school program provides 80 flight training scholarships of $10,000 each to high school students. AOPA also awards 20 flight training scholarships of $10,000 each to teachers. In addition, the AOPA Foundation awards individuals over age 16 primary flight training scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $5,000. The foundation also awards pilots seeking further ratings and certificates with scholarships of $3,000 to $10,000.
  

• Airports Council International-North America
  The Airports Council International-North America commissioners present scholarships for individuals in pursuit of becoming airport managers or administrators.

• Airport Distributors and Manufacturers Association
  The Airport Distributors and Manufacturers Association provides a scholarship for students pursuing careers in airport management or as a professional pilot.

• The American Association of Airport Executives​ 
  The American Association of Airport Executives offers different scholarships for individuals attending accredited colleges or universities and pursuing future careers in aviation.

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  The AIAA awards scholarships to top science and engineering undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides scholarships to Master’s level students for technical writing skills.

• The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
  The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to individuals pursuing and excelling in a science or engineering degree.

• Aviation Insurance Association​
  The Aviation Insurance Association provides a scholarship to students in an aviation insurance program.

• Charlie Wells Memorial Aviation Scholarship
  The Charlie Wells Memorial Aviation Scholarship is offered to qualifying individuals who are pursuing or are hoping to pursue a career in aviation.

• Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
  The EAA offers a variety of flight training scholarships, Air Academy camperships, and college scholarships to students pursuing aviation-related occupations.

• Female Aviators Sticking Together (F.A.S.T.)​
  F.A.S.T. provides scholarships to women to help fund flight training.

• General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA)
  GAMA offers scholarships to graduating high school seniors and students enrolled in an aviation-related degree programs, such as professional pilot, maintenance/engineering, or aviation business.
  

• The International Society of Women Airline Pilots
  The International Society of Women Airline Pilots provides scholarships for women pilots interested in pursuing advanced airplane ratings.

• Le Roy Homer Foundation
  The Le Roy Homer Foundation provides scholarships for individuals, between the ages of 16 and 23, interested in pursuing a private pilot’s license.

• National Air Transportation Foundation
  The National Air Transportation Foundation provides several scholarships to graduating high school students or college students enrolled in aviation degree programs.

• National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO)
  The Henry Ogrodizinski Scholarship is offered to juniors or seniors at a college or university continuing their education in the aviation or aerospace industry.

• National Business Aviation Association
  The National Business Aviation Association provides a variety of scholarships for individuals in higher education institutions, studying various areas of aviation.

• The Ninety-Nines, Inc.
  The Ninety-Nines provide several scholarships to women in aviation, including flight training scholarships, academic scholarships, and technical training scholarships.

• Pat Napolitano Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Aviation Technicians
  Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics offers this annual scholarship ($3,000) to graduating high school seniors and current college students pursuing their aircraft maintenance technician education.
  

• Spaatz Association
  The Spaatz Association provides scholarships to individuals who are involved with the Civil Air Patrol, maintain a 3.0 GPA, have earned his/her Mitchell Award and earned his/her solo wings in a powered aircraft.

• Whirly Girls
  Whirly Girls offers scholarships for women in helicopter training.

• Wisconsin Airport Management Association (WAMA)
  WAMA offers 2 scholarships to WI students enrolled in an aviation degree field and professional development scholarships to WAMA members who are residents of Wisconsin at the time of the award.

• Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame
  Each year, the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame awards four scholarships to Wisconsin residents enrolled in aviation-related programs in a college/university or technical school.

• Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
  The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium awards multiple scholarships to Wisconsin undergraduate and graduate students pursuing aerospace, space science, or other interdisciplinary space-related studies.

• Women in Aviation International
  Women in Aviation provides a variety of scholarships from financial assistance for flight school to engineering. It also provides scholarships to teachers for classroom use.

• Zonta International
  Zonta International presents the Amelia Earhart Fellowship to women pursuing a Ph.D. in aerospace related sciences and/or aerospace related engineering.