Creation of the EADS Socata International scholarship
EADS Socata creates a new international scholarship to offer to two EAA Young Eagles, the opportunity to discover the European aerospace industry
EAA AirVenture 2006, Oshkosh, WI, 27 July 2006
EADS Socata announces today that the company will award in 2007 two “scholarships” through an agreement with the EAA that will give a unique opportunity for two American graduates of the EAA Young Eagles program, who are training for an aviation career to learn about the European aerospace industry.
The EADS Socata scholarship will provide to the two students visits to major European aerospace industry sites including an in-depth visit to EADS Socata’s manufacturing plant in South-West France.
“The EAA Young Eagles program has been hugely successful in introducing over 1.25 million young people to flying and in encouraging them to investigate careers in aviation” said Stephane Mayer, Chairman and CEO of EADS Socata. “The creation of the EADS Socata/EAA Young Eagles scholarship is a step towards the goal of strengthening transatlantic ties between the American and Europe’s aviation communities. The Young Eagles who become part of this new program will be able to see from their own eyes that aviation is a universal language truly without borders in the best traditions of the Wright brothers and Socata’s own founders, the Morane brothers and Robert Saulnier” He added.
The EAA Young Eagles program was launched in 1992 to give young people, ages 8 - 17, an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. These flights are offered free of charge and are made possible through the generosity of EAA member volunteers.
The EAA Young Eagles have been registered in more than 90 different countries and missions have been flown by nearly 40,000 volunteer pilots.
EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is an international aviation membership association founded in 1953 and headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. EAA sponsors many aviation education programs including the EAA Young Eagles program. More than 170,000 people currently belong to EAA, with local Chapters located in all 50 states and many countries. Members are aviation enthusiasts of every age group, including many airline and commercial pilots, engineers, business people and even astronauts.
EADS Socata is one of the world’s leading general aviation manufacturers, with more than 17,000 aircraft built since its birth as Morane-Saulnier in 1911, which includes the MS 760 ParisJet – the world’s first business jet. EADS Socata manufactures the TBM 850, world’s fastest single civilian turboprop and the TB GT piston touring and training aircraft. It also produces aerostructures for Airbus airliners (including the new A380 and A400M military transport), the Dassault Falcon 7X, Eurocopter helicopters and Embraer regional jets. The company is headquartered in Tarbes, France, and its North American operations are located Pembroke Pines, Florida. EADS Socata is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS – a global leader in aerospace and defense.
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