HFI offers up to 19 scholarships for students preparing for careers in rotorcraft aviation:
- Commercial Helicopter Rating Scholarship: awarded to up to four pilots who have their private licenses and are in the process of attaining a commercial rating
- Maintenance Technician Certificate Scholarship: awarded to up to six students who are studying to become maintenance technicians
- Michelle North Scholarship for Safety: awarded to a pilot who has already attained a commercial rating and demonstrates an outstanding aptitude for safe flying and aviation best practices
- Bill Sanderson Aviation Maintenance Technician Scholarship: awarded to up to eight students. Each winner attends a course from a selection offered by helicopter airframe and power plant manufacturers.
To learn more and apply, visit helicopterfoundation.org/scholarships. Applications must be submitted before midnight Nov. 30, 2014.