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By Shane Nolan |
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January 30, 2011 - Twenty aviation-related charities are
the beneficiaries of over $100,000 in grants awarded by
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation for 2010. Midnight,
February 11th is the deadline for existing or new
aviation charities that may want to apply to be
beneficiaries of the 2011 season.
Founded in 1996 by a group of former Tektronix
executives, Lightspeed Aviation was launched with a
simple mission - to design and build the quietest, most
comfortable aviation headsets in the world for the
professional or general aviation pilot. The result is a
line of high-performance products that has dominated the
ANR (Active Noise Reduction) headset market ever since.
In April 2010, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation submitted twenty award finalists to the aviation community. Pilots then selected their favorites among these charities by voting online or designating a portion of new Lightspeed Aviation headset purchases. |
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In
November, $50,000 was shared at the AOPA Summit Pilot Choice
Awards between the five finalists with the highest number of
online votes. This week, additional gifting in excess of $50,000
was distributed among all twenty charities based on the amount
designated by new Lightspeed Aviation customers at the time they
registered their product.
?What?s
particularly unique about the foundation is that we do not ask
or accept financial gifts to fund the foundation,? according to
Allan Schrader, Founder and President of Lightspeed Aviation.
?Perhaps best of all, it is the pilots who choose where the
money goes.?
The 2010
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation recipients included; Angel Flight
Central, Angel Flight East, Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, Angel
Flight? Southeast/Mercy Flight Southeast, Angel Flight West,
AOPA Foundation, Brigade Air, Build A Plane, Civil Air Patrol,
EAA Young Eagles, Experience Aviation, Helicopter Foundation
Int'l, Heritage Flight Foundation, JAARS, Lindbergh Foundation, |
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