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Tuskegee Airmen's RedTail Academy Buys Piper Trainers

Two Piper Pilot 100i aircraft will help launch the Tuskegee Airmen RedTail Flight Academy, which will provide flight-training opportunities for minorities.

Piper Aircraft received an order for two of its Pilot 100i trainers that will be used for a Tuskegee Airmen scholarship program, which will offer a 10-month flight training course through a newly launched academy in New York. (Photo: Piper Aircraft)

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

May 21, 2021

Tuskegee Airmen Inc. has ordered two Piper Pilot 100i single-engine trainers as it prepares to launch RedTail Flight Academy in September to help provide flight training opportunities to minority youth. In honor of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the academy will offer an aviation scholarship program covering the full cost of flight training.

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