(L-R) Kevin Crombie, Paul Lampasso, Eric Ingram, Jermaine Strachan, Charles Stites
Kevin Crombie, Eric Ingram and Jermaine Strachan were awarded their Able Flight Wings on July 26th in a ceremony at EAA AirVenture. Joining them were Paul Lampasso, Able Flight’s first recipient of a Career Training Scholarship and Aaron Michaels of Purdue University, Able Flight’s 2011 Flight Instructor of the Year.
Blue skies and an appreciative crowd welcomed the new pilots to Oshkosh as friends and Able Flight supporters recognized the achievements of the scholarship recipients. Strachan, Crombie, Ingram and Korel Cudmore trained this summer at Purdue University and each earned their Sport Pilot certificates. Lampasso earned his Light Sport Repairman Certificate after training with Rainbow Aviation in California. Michaels’ Flight Instructor of the Year award came as a surprise to the young Purdue graduate student who had only been told he would get to attend EAA AirVenture if he shared flying duties to and from the event. Read the EAA story here!
A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
Attending the ceremony at AirVenture were Jim Irwin and Desiree Czaplinski of Aircraft Spruce, Bob Stangarone of Cessna, Gary Rankin of the American Navion Society, Tom Evernham of TBMOPA Foundation, Mike Barker of AirChart Systems, Rob Riggen of Flying High Coffee, and David Dunlap, Tim Mell and Chris Throndsen of Sennheiser.