Avionics
Lightspeed Foundation Announces 2015 Pilot’s Choice Award Winners
A unique award that aims to engage the general aviation community in helping to raise awareness of its good deeds.
Allan Schrader, president of Lightspeed Aviation, presents this year’s Lightspeed Foundation Pilot’s Choice Awards in Palm Springs, Calif. Since 2010, Lightspeed has awarded $500,000 to date to recipients chosen by “the pilot community.”
Allan Schrader, president of Lightspeed Aviation, presents this year’s Lightspeed Foundation Pilot’s Choice Awards in Palm Springs, Calif. Since 2010, Lightspeed has awarded $500,000 to date to recipients chosen by “the pilot community.”

Lightspeed Aviation president Allan Schrader knows there is nothing in the world quite as satisfying as seeing good causes rewarded. Each year Schrader gets to bask for a few moments in the thrill of watching his company’s nonprofit Lightspeed Foundation award grants of $2,000 to as much as $10,000 to causes that use aviation as a means to do good around the world. This year’s winners are Pilot N Paws, awarded $10,000; The Ninety-Nines, $8,000; Civil Air Patrol, $6,000; New Tribes Mission Aviation, $4,000; and JAARS, $2,000. All are cash grants designed to help the organizations fulfill their missions.