Epic Flight Academy has announced the winners of the 10th Annual Aviation Scholarship Awards. In 2025, Epic awarded $145,000 to 17 high school students. This brings the total awarded to high school students over the past 10 years to $590,000.
Dr. Cindy Lovell, director of education, said, “We received more than 150 applications, so our team of judges had their work cut out for them. Students from 24 states applied for scholarships to our different campuses around the country. It was our best response yet, and the winners come from 12 different states.”
CEO Danny Perna added, “The quality of applications was impressive this year. In fact, the winner of our Captain Judy Rice $20,000 Pilot Scholarship is a young lady from Wisconsin who experienced an engine out on her cross-country solo flight while training at another flight school, but she landed safely on a country road. No doubt Captain Judy would approve!”
The 2025 Epic Flight Academy scholarship winners are:
Student Scholarship Awarded – Training Location Hometown
Aleksandr Safray $5,000 Pilot – Englewood, CO Centennial, CO
Anayah Masunda $20,000 Aircraft Mechanic – New Smyrna Beach, FL Charlotte, NC
Andrew Youngblood $5,000 Pilot – Jacksonville, FL Bryan, TX
Brynn Witke $20,000 Captain Judy Rice Pilot – Tucson, AZ Stoughton, WI
Cameron Hartley $20,000 Aircraft Mechanic – Erlanger, KY Cincinnati, OH
Cenzi Johnson $5,000 Pilot – Tallahassee, FL Siloam Springs, AR
Coleton Moore $5,000 Pilot – Provo, UT West Jordan, UT
Emily DuCheney $5,000 Pilot – Tucson Tucson, AZ
Lucas Heilman $10,000 Aircraft Mechanic – New Smyrna Beach, FL Holstein, IA
Maria Garcia $5,000 Pilot – Addison, TX Cleveland, TX
Marvel White Jr. $5,000 Pilot – Ocala, FL Winter Garden, FL
Raymond Frick $10,000 Aircraft Mechanic – Erlanger, KY Louisville, KY
Samantha Salzman $5,000 Pilot – St. George, UT Syracuse, UT
Sawyer Hill $5,000 King Air Nation Foundation Pilot – New Smyrna Beach, FL Wilmington, IL
Solomon Pangallo $5,000 Pilot – Tuscaloosa, AL Morning View, KY
Weston Pollard $5,000 Pilot – New Smyrna Beach, FL Port Orange, FL
Zachary Fannin $10,000 King Air Nation Foundation Aircraft Mechanic – Erlanger, KY Louisa, KY
Epic Flight Academy awards annual scholarships to eligible U.S. high school students. Epic offers additional scholarships through numerous aviation organizations. The King Air Nation Foundation allocated $10,000 to Epic this year for an aircraft mechanic student and $5,000 for a flight student.
Founded in 1999, Epic Flight Academy is the largest FAA Part 141 flight school in the United States. With multiple training locations, including two FAA Part 147 aircraft mechanic schools, Epic specializes in training students for careers in aviation.
