During the welcome breakfast at the NAAA convention the winners of the this year’s agricultural aviation scholarships were announced. The scholarships are part of the partnership that BASF has with the organization. Pictured are (l-r), Ben Cadenbach, Matthew Kollars, Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF and Brian Rau, NAAA President. I will have interviews with all of them for you during the next couple days.
“BASF believes in sustaining and growing the aerial application industry,” said Gary Fellows, Ph.D., BASF Technical Services Regional Manager and member of the NAAREF (National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation) PAASS (Professional Aerial Applicators’ Support System) Program development committee. “This scholarship is designed to help NAAA operators bring new pilots into the field and help in their training to become part of the aerial application industry.”
The 2010 scholarship winners are Ben Cadenbach and Matthew Kollars, both of Kearney, Nebraska. Both Cadenbach and Kollars are pursuing a career in agricultural aviation and will be completing their commercial licenses; Kollars will return to the cockpit after obtaining a degree in Industrial Distribution and Cadenbach will be supporting his young family with an aviation career.
To be eligible for the Agricultural Aviation Scholarship, each applicant had to be sponsored by an NAAA member operator. Cadenbach was sponsored by Buffalo Air Services operator Sean Penner. Woods Aviation’s Waylon Woods sponsored Kollars. Like the scholarship recipients, both businesses are based in Kearney, Nebraska.
2010 NAAA Convention Photo Album
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