At this year’s NBAA Flight Attendants and Flight Technicians (FAFT) conference, held this week in Long Beach, Calif., the FAFT committee awarded 35 scholarships to attendees. In addition, NBAA chair of the Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) governing board T. James Buchanan and his disciple, Jay Evans, administrative director of the program, introduced its first CAM flight attendant, Mike Horan, who works for Altria. The CAM program has now certified more than 350 aviation professionals around the world, and, according to Buchanan, there are CAMs in every business aviation discipline.
The NBAA Dale “Potsy” McBurney Aviation scholarship went to Paul Pelletier, a vocation technical director who is currently working on earning his A&P certificate. Other scholarships were funded by caterer Air Culinaire; flight crew trainers AirCare Access Assistance, AirCare FACTs Training, FlightSafety International, Susan Freidenberg Corporate Flight Attendant Training, The Corporate School of Etiquette and GA Food Safety Professionals. Individual flight departments, including JCPenny Aviation, Proserve Aviation, Clay Lacy Aviation, Cornerstone Strategies and Valero also funded scholarships, as did The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Medaire, Gulfstream International, Universal Weather and Aviation, Flight Crews Unlimited and others.

The 2018 FAFT scholarship opportunities will appear this fall on the NBAA scholarships page at nbaa.org.