Scholarship Winners 2024

THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF AIR PILOTS FLYING SCHOLARSHIPS 2024

Thanks to the generosity of sponsors, benefactors and charitable trusts, a total of ten Private Pilot Licence Scholarships and two Instructor Scholarship have been funded. The company have also awarded forty eight Gliding Scholarships.

Private Pilot Licence Scholarships:

The Grayburn Scholarship (kindly sponsored by Past Master of the Company, Michael Grayburn) was awarded to Eleanor White.  Eleanor will fly with Phoenix Aviation. 

The Donaldson Scholarship (kindly donated by Captain Colin Donaldson)  has sponsored Darrell Kovac who will fly with Stapleford Flight Centre. 

The Air Pilots Trust have sponsored the Sir Sefton Brancker Scholarship this year, and this was awarded to Jordan Smith, who is flying with Starsfly at Elstree.   The Trust also sponsored Thomas Laidlar, who will train with Pilot Flight Training. 

The Air Pilots Benevolent Fund have sponsored James Wilson who will complete his training at Leicester Aero Club. 

BALPA have again sponsored three Scholarships and they are the:

The Wigley Scholarship has sponsored Sophie Gairdner.  Sophie is going to fly with Booker Aviation.

The Lane Burselem Scholarship has sponsored Piers Austin-Foss.  Piers is flying with Synergy Aviation. 

The Bob Dawson Scholarship sponsored Ciaran Haverty, and he will train with Redhill Aviation. 

This year we welcomed two new sponsors:

The Dunmore Scholarship Christopher Edmunds was grateful to receive the Dunmore Scholarship and is training with Full Sutton Flying Club in York and 

The Sky Demon Scholarship was awarded to Shivam Patel who is flying with Cotswold Aero Club. 

Flight Instructor Scholarships 2024:

This year our two FI Scholarships were awarded to:

The Swire Scholarship was awarded to Lewis Bricknell.  Lewis will complete his scholarship at Modern Air UK Ltd.

The Normal Motley Scholarship was awarded to Paul Sodagar and he will at Andrewsfield Aviation. 

Gliding Scholarships 2024:

This year we awarded 48 Gliding Scholarships all of which were taken as week long residential course.

As in previous years we ran courses Lasham Gliding Club, placing 2 students, 12 students at Derby & Lancs Gliding Club,  15 students at Midland Gliding Club and 8 at Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club.   We welcomed more new clubs this year, Cotswold Gliding Club, London Gliding Club and The Scottish Gliding Centre. 

2Excel - Hashim Iqbal & Esha Dongare

AFG - Niha Gudena & Verity Greenald 

Air Pilots Flying Club - Ben Petrie, Cassiopeia Bentley, Elodie Lock, Isabelle Maguire, Joseph Norton, Hannah Hockin & Holly Thomas

Air Pilots Benevolent Fund - Benjamin Latchford

Air Pilots Pilot Aptitude Team - Joby Girling

Air Pilots Trust - Annmaria Tome, Charlotte Williams & Leila Ohri

Air Safety Trust - Fin Hewitt, Vladislav Artamonov & Zac Channing

Air Pilots Visits Team - Annabelle Dowse, Bess Jarvis, Lillian Wilson & Morwenna Burgess

Dunmore Scholarship - Archie Mussell & Thomas Weekes

Past Master Dorothy Saul Pooley - David Hockings Scholarship - Katie McKie

Past Master Dorothy Saul Pooley - Ken Lyndon-Dykes - Matylda Karolewska 

Past Master Robin Keegan - Marcos Mayhew

Red Arrows Trust - Aaron George, Arun Singh, Leo Oxford, Nicole Farcas, Ruby McPherson & Winnie Shard

RAFCT - Eleanor Spencer, Elizabeth Rubio, Isabelle Wong, James Nicholas, Joy Lim, Mahika Shepley, Maria Johnston, Noah Barker, Sophia Sipma & Toluwalola Opaleye

Sky Demon - Oliver Welch & Tom Chidgey

Virgin Atlantic - Chimzitara Agwuncha & Rayan Akhtar

ENDS

For further information please contact the Honourable Company of Air Pilots at:

Ben Griffiths: pr1@airpilots.org

Air Pilots Office: +44 (0)20 7404 4032:  office@airpilots.org

Notes to editors:

1. The Honourable Company of Air Pilots

The Air Pilots was established as the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators in 1929. It is based in London but has an internationally based membership of professional and private pilots. The principal activities of the organisation are centred on developing action and activities to ensure that aircraft are piloted and navigated safely by aviators who are highly competent, self-reliant, dependable and respected. 

2.The Air Pilots support the education and training of pilots from the initial instruction of young pilots to specialist training at the highest levels. Through its charitable activities, education and training, technical committees, aircrew selection, scholarships and sponsorships, advice and recognition of the achievements of fellow aviators worldwide, the Honourable Company keeps itself at the forefront of the aviation world.

3. The Air Pilots also provides expert, impartial input to regulators, government and media on areas including aviation and the environment, airport capacity in south east England, aircrew flight time limitations and the maintenance of piloting skills in increasingly automated aircraft. Air Pilots experts are also available to all media on request, to ensure accurate and fully informed reporting of any aviation events. If you need our assistance, please contact us on the numbers or e-mail addresses above.