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NBAA Announces Maintenance Scholarship Recipients 
By: Samantha Cartaino
Caption: The awards are an opportunity for business aviation maintenance technicians to improve their careers with technical education and training.
Word Count: 464
NBAA awarded its annual maintenance Technical Reward and Career Scholarships (TRACS) on May 1 at the 2018 NBAA Maintenance Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the organization, the awards are an opportunity for business aviation maintenance technicians to improve their careers, as well as promote technical education and training within the industry.

Participating companies included Abaris Training Resources, Bombardier Aerospace, Dassault Aviation, FlightSafety International, Garmin, GE Aviation, Global Jet Services, Gogo Business Aviation, Gulfstream Aerospace, Rockwell Collins, Rolls-Royce, Satcom Direct, Textron Aviation, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Williams International.

Scholarship winners include Jakub Hnizda, who will participate in one engine course for Rolls-Royce engines currently in production. Garmin offered Alexander Makrakis and Cassandra Peterson scholarships for its G3000/5000 intro course. Meanwhile, Williams International provided Ariel Gleason, Chad Lewis, and Mark Matlack scholarships for its FJ series engine line-maintenance course.

Satcom Direct offered awards to Spencer Aaltonen and Chris Potempa for its Aero IT Certification Course, while Global Jet Services offered Matthew Brown a scholarship to use towards any two-week initial course from its catalog. As USC offered Jacob Carson an award for its human factors course, GE Aviation offered Karl Doering a scholarship for its H80 turboprop engine line maintenance course, and Attila Szucs and Kyle Walker for its CF34 turbofan and CFM56 jet engine line maintenance courses, respectively.

FlightSafety offered awards to the following: Rodney Fleming, for the Falcon maintenance initial training program; Alexander Giglio for the G650 maintenance initial training program; Clara McGee for the PT6 turboprop engine line maintenance course; and Christopher Myrick for the principles of troubleshooting training program.

Abaris Traning Resources provided scholarships to Jacob Forster, Artem Goncharov, and Ronald Hoy for different phases of its M1-R1 advanced composite structures fabrication and damage repair course. Christopher Girouard, Cody Gunther, and Jeff Swanson will participate in Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line Fusion avionics courses for the Embraer Legacy 500, Gulfstream G280, and Bombardier Global 5000/6000.

Meanwhile, Bombardier Aerospace offered scholarships to Immanuel Bankole for its Global XRS Electrical Troubleshooting Course, Christopher Charlier for its Challenger 605/650 Avionics Course, Dale Luther for its Challenger 300 series Maintenance Initial Course, Khaled Mahfouz for its Lear 75 Avionics Course, and Victor Rae for its Lear 45 Maintenance Initial Course.

Textron Aviation provided scholarships to Sean Kennedy for its King Air initial maintenance course and Bryon Konen for its Citation 525 series initial maintenance course. Meanwhile, Dassault offered Jeramey Laborce an award for its Falcon 7X EASy maintenance initial program, and Gulfstream offered Christopher Wendt a scholarship for its Gulfstream G650/G650ER maintenance initial course.

Both NBAA and Gogo Business Aviation offered Zachary Martin registration and hotel expenses for the maintenance conference, and Grant Smith a scholarship for attendance to the conference.