April 23, 2024 12:06 pm

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Flight scholarships application period now open

Flight scholarships

Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is offering scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.   The awards will be made so that students may be begin with the first […]

Cascade warbirds scholarship winner Corey Zendejas now a licensed pilot

Corey Zendejas

OAK HARBOR, Wash., August 2, 2023—Cascade Warbirds is pleased to announce that scholarship winner Corey Zendejas of Auburn has earned his Private Pilot License.  Corey began his flight training by winning a Ground School Scholarship from Cascade Warbirds in 2022.  He followed that by qualifying for a Continuing Aviation Education Grant late last year.  Corey […]

Cascade Warbirds accepting applicants for 2023 aviation scholarships

Cascade Warbirds scholarships

Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation, and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is pleased to offer scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow. Cascade Warbirds has teamed with several flight schools in the Puget Sound […]

Cascade Warbirds to fly at the upcoming Olympic Flight Museum Airshow

Cascade Warbirds Olympic Airshow

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash., June 8, 2022 – Members of Cascade Warbirds will be flying in and exhibiting their aircraft at the Olympic Flight Museum Airshow, Fathers’ Day weekend, June 18-19.  These historic military planes from different countries will be featured along with the Olympic Flight Museum’s P-51D Mustang, the most outstanding fighter of WWII.  A […]

Cascade Warbirds aviation scholarship program given extended deadline

cascade warbirds scholarship

Due to an outpouring of financial support, Cascade Warbirds is able to extend its 2022 scholarship application period until March 31 so that more area youth have the opportunity to apply for this entry into aviation. Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft, has […]

Cascade Warbirds accepting applicants for 2022 aviation scholarships

cascade warbirds

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash., January 4, 2022 – Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is offering scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.  Flight training programs have remained open while […]

Cascade Warbirds announces 2022 aviation scholarship program

cascade warbirds

Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation, and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is pleased to offer scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow. Cascade Warbirds has teamed with several flight schools in the Puget Sound […]

Cascade Warbirds scholarship winner solos

Keith steedman

As we prepare for a return to a new school year, here is a student who has been plugging away at some special studies all year.  Cascade Warbirds Scholarship winner Keith Steedman has just passed an important test leading to his Private Pilot License.  On August 10 he made his first solo flight!  And, passed […]

ERAU alumnus and Cascade Warbirds scholarship recipient graduates Magna Cum Laude

cascade warbird

It is graduation season and Cascade Warbirds is proud to announce that Alex Edwin Jonson graduated May 8, 2021, Magna Cum Laude from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), and accompanied it with a fully rated Commercial Pilot License. Alex was awarded a Cascade Warbirds Private Pilot Ground School Scholarship in 2015 while a sophomore at Issaquah […]

Teen scholarship winner soars in school and in the air

Lukas Hollman Cascade Warbirds

Lukas Holloman, a 2019 Cascade Warbirds Private Pilot Ground School Scholarship winner, hasn’t let the pandemic slow him down.  Lukas, a student at Auburn Riverside High School, has been in a running start program taking classes at Green River College and pursuing flight training.  He completed his ground school training and was issued his FAA […]

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