STRATEGIC PARTNERS

AHFA partners with multiple organizations who share similar missions to empower and engage youth in aviation. A complete list of our partners include:

AHFA

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  • Be at least 16 years old by 1 June of the flight training year.
  • Be enrolled in high school* or homeschool during the flight training year.
  • Be a US citizen **
  • Have no more than 5 powered flight hours 
  • 3.0 current Grade Point Average either with an unofficial GPA Transcript or a registrar/counselor verifiable memorandum.

Notes: 

  • No flight or aviation experience necessary (we teach you to fly!)  
  • No commitment or obligation to the Air Force  
  • *USAFA & AFROTC Cadets may apply through their institutions
  • **Non-US Citizens regardless of residency status are ineligible to apply

 

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USAFA's First Class Mentors The Newest
U.S. Air Force Academy
Video by Kevin Conroy, Thomas Paul, Kevin Tappan, Jon Zanone
June 28, 2013 | 2:30
The class of 2017 entered the air force academy recently. It's the fifty ninth class to begin basic cadet training at the newest of the service academies. Jon Zanone brings us the story of how members of that first class of nineteen fifty-nine are paying it forward.
When Curtis cook came to the academy in 1954, it was a very different place. You can forgive that he doesn't remember much of that first day. Not because of age, but circumstance.
Lt. Col. (ret) Curtis Cook: we had to march in the dedication parade the day we arrived. So we signed in and then immediately began an exhausting hours of learning to march. Most of us didn't have the foggiest idea of what marching was all about. So the first day was a blur. All I can remember is putting one foot in front of the other, and wondering when it would end.
It did end, and cook graduated in nineteen fifty nine - the first class of many to navigate the rigors of the academy. To commemorate their journey, the class of fifty-nine built the challenge bridge to give one final lesson to incoming basic cadets about their path through the academy and beyond.

Cook: the way I see our role as we welcome these new cadets is that we're validating what they're about to do. It was important to us, and it will be important to them. But they are at the very beginning, and we want them to know that we're on their side, we think this is a good thing they do, and we wish them the best of luck.
Each graduate tells a different story. For cook, he relates the story of the academy's first superintendent, lieutenant general Hubert Harmon.
Cook: and this year I tell them a little story about some difficulties that he encountered in hopes that they recognize when they encounter difficulties they not the first ones that ever happened to.
After a career as a navigator and an academy political science instructor, cook offers some seasoned advice to the new basics.
Cook: cadets said to each other when they came in was 'don't volunteer for anything'. That's the worst advice I ever heard. And it took me a long time to figure out that the opposite is the way to approach the academy and a lot of other things. Volunteer for everything. You just never know what spectacular experiences might come out of raising your hand.
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AHFA Locations & Training Partners

  • California Aeronautical University, CA 
  • California Baptist University, CA 
  • Marion Military Institute, AL 
  • Oklahoma State University, OK  
  • South Dakota State University, SD 
  • Troy University, AL
  • Schreiner University, TX
  • University of Texas San Antonio, TX
  • Tennesse State University, TN

*To learn how to become one of our training locations please email: 

 Afrs.ahfa.studentapplications@us.af.mil 

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS RECEIVE* 

  • Up to 12-15 flight hours 
  • Housing and meals during training 
  • Transportation to/from training location 
  • Classroom training (ground school) 
  • Flight simulator training 
  • All training is provided by FAA Certified Flight Instructors 
  • Access to university recreation facilities 
  • Mentorship from Air Force aviators  

*All items funded by USAF except:

  • FAA Class III Med Certificate
  • Luggage during travel
  • Personal driving to/from university assigned session

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                                                              Please direct program questions to: Afrs.ahfa.studentapplications@us.af.mil