Flying Scholarships Winners 2024

With grateful thanks to sponsors, benefactors and charitable trusts, a total of eleven Private Pilot Licence Scholarships, two Flight Instructor Certificate Scholarships and forty eight Gliding Scholarships were awarded in 2024.

Private Pilot Licence Scholarships

James Wilson - Air Pilots Benevolent Fund Scholarship

Thomas Laidlar - APT Trust Scholarship

Darrell Kovac - The Donaldson Scholarship

Christopher Edmunds - The Dunmore Scholarship

Eleanor White - The Grayburn Scholarship

Ciaran Haverty - The Bob Dawson Scholarship (BALPA Benevolent Fund)

Piers Austin-Foss - The Lane-Burslem Scholarship (BALPA Benevolent Fund)

Sophie Gairdner - The Wigley Scholarship (BALPA Benevolent Fund)

Jordan Smith - The Sir Sefton Brancker Scholarship (Air Pilots Trust)

Shivam Patel - Sky Demon Scholarship

reports from the PPL Scholarship winners in 2024

Chris Edmunds - The Dunmore Scholarship 2024

Ciaran Haverty - The Bob Dawson Scholarship 2024

Elenaor White - Grayburn Scholarship 2024

James Wilson- Air Pilots Benevolent Fund Scholarship 2024

Jordan Smith - Sir Sefton Brancker Scholarship 2024

Piers Austin-Foss Lane - The Lane Burslem BALPA Scholarship 2024

Shivam Patel - Sky Demon Scholarship 2024

Sophie Gairdner - The Wigley Scholarship 2024

Thomas Laidlar APT PPL Scholarship 2024

List of who is who in the photo above

Back row: Sophie Gairdner, Chris Edmunds, Ciaran Haverty, Thomas Laidlair and Darrell Kovac
Front row: Piers Austin-Foss, Eleanor White, Shivam Patel, IPM Captain Jonathan Legat, Jordan Smith and James Wilson.

Gliding Scholarships 2024

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 - Finn 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