Stewart RedTail Flight Academy receives Laureate Award

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STEWART AIRPORT – The one-year-old RedTail Flight Academy at New York Stewart International Airport has received nationwide recognition for its “impact on preparing the next generation of underrepresented people of color to enter the aviation and aerospace community,” said Glen Fraser, president of the RedTail Flight Academy’s board of directors.

On September 21, 2021, six students ranging in age from 18 to 23, began the flight school; they all graduated eight months later.

Fraser said the academy was created to connect underserved talent of color to careers in aviation and aerospace as a response to the industry’s lack of diversity, equity and inclusion.

“Our newest component, RedTail Flight Academy, was honored in Washington, DC by Aviation Week Network with a Laureate Award for the category of business aviation for our ingenuity, creativity and in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen diversifying the sky,” he said. “So, we won in the category as a Grand Laureate against some very formidable aviation groups.”

A second group of students has already begun in the RedTail Flight Academy.

Fraser, a retired Air National Guard lieutenant colonel, is a 37-year commercial airline captain.




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