{"id":32135,"date":"2025-07-06T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=32135"},"modified":"2025-07-06T17:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T17:11:22","slug":"embry-riddle-freshman-wins-100000-in-flexjets-project-lxi-design-the-ultimate-private-jet-interior-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/embry-riddle-freshman-wins-100000-in-flexjets-project-lxi-design-the-ultimate-private-jet-interior-contest\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Embry-Riddle Freshman Wins $100,000 in Flexjet\u2019s Project LXi \u2013 Design the Ultimate Private Jet Interior Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flexjet<\/a> has awarded an aviation business student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University $100,000 for his winning aircraft interior design, Carolina, in the Project LXi \u2013 Design the Ultimate Private Jet Interior Contest. Woojae Sohn, worked with his father, Youngmin Sohn, on the design and drew inspiration from their family vacations in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The interior will be installed in one of Flexjet\u2019s Gulfstream G650 aircraft and will become one of the Flexjet\u2019s LXi Cabin Collection<\/a>\u2122 of custom interiors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were more than 150 entries in the contest that launched in October 2024. Those entries were narrowed down by a committee of Flexjet creatives and executives to 12. Then the public voted on the 12 semi-finalists. Flexjet\u2019s engineers and designers took the six designs with the highest votes and created more precise visual renderings of them in Flexjet\u2019s software. Then they sourced the materials needed to create the designs to assist Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci in selecting the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a call between Ricci at Flexjet\u2019s Global Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio and Sohn at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., earlier this week, Ricci said, \u201cI want you to call your dad tonight and tell him we talked and we decided to name it Carolina and it\u2019s our winner. You won $100,000!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sohn was quiet for a moment while that sunk in and said, \u201cReally?! Let\u2019s Go!\u201d He raised both hands in a victory fist pump and said, \u201cThank you so much Kenn. I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sohn, participating in the contest meant more than the chance to win $100,000. \u201cThis contest created a stronger bond between me and my father,\u201d he told Ricci. His father, Youngmin Sohn, is a Design Director and the pair collaborated every weekend since the contest launched to craft the interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of the brown, tan and cream interior include an outline of trees on the veneer on the bulkhead of the interior that represented a grove of trees they recalled from the vacation. In addition, Ricci said he found the tufting proposed for the couch and ottoman as well as the wood grain of the table to be unique and something he had never seen before in an aircraft interior. \u201cIt\u2019s a very elegant design,\u201d he said in a video on his Instagram describing the design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A formal award presentation is planned and the Sohns will be invited to tour Flexjet\u2019s Global Headquarters and learn more about the installation process of the newest LXi Cabin Collection\u2122 Interior design. Look for more coverage of the process as Carolina prepares to join the Flexjet fleet in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flexjet has awarded an aviation business student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University $100,000 for his winning aircraft interior design, Carolina, in the Project LXi \u2013 Design the Ultimate Private Jet Interior Contest. Woojae Sohn, worked with his father, Youngmin Sohn, on the design and drew inspiration from their family vacations in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The interior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/embry-riddle-student-wins-contest-gulfstreamg650-v2-woojaesohn-1-0028-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32138,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions\/32138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}