EAA awarded Chapter 501 the opportunity to mentor a Ray scholarship candidate in 2021, 2022 and 2023.  Beck Youngberg, our 2021 Ray scholarship winner, achieved his PPL rating on May 3rd, 2022. Flight training for our 2022 winner Joshua Puerzer was interrupted by strings of bad weather. Completion of his Ray flight training then became an impossibility in the required timespan due to the demands of the freshman engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh.  Brandon Norrell has been awarded the balance of the 2022 Ray award and in November 2023 he has already soloed with Sky Training, LLC, at Greenwood Lake Airport. The 2023 Ray flight training award was granted to Reva Mathankar. Reva is already close to being cleared to solo under the direction of a flight instructor at Lincoln Park Airport's Aero Safety Training, Ltd.

Contact David Jones, delj107@gmail.com,  Chapter 501's Ray Scholarship Coordinator, for more scholarship information.