Students Earn Flight Credentials
Spring 2019 Aviation grads join 13,000+ pilots trained at institute
The following students earned flight credentials from the Institute of Aviation at Parkland College during the college's spring semester.
Soloed for the First Time in a Piper Archer
Carson Davenport, Bement
David Ghantous, Bloomington
Clayton Pforr, Humboldt
Mutawakkil Farrakhan, Crete
Jacek Madrawski, Champaign
Bongkyun Park, Champaign
Nicholas Wolff, Effingham
Lukas Wright, Fairmount
Max Moews, Bloomington
Aubrey Glennon, Bement
Tallon Myers, Clinton
Paolo Kinsella, Bement
Dylan Milner, Neoga
Alexander Ashworth, Holder
Lisa Rosov, Long Grove
Parth Patel, Huntley
Earned a Private Pilot Airplane Single-Engine Land Certificate
Adam Cafin, Champaign
Daniel Cooper, Downs
Cody Pankau, Champaign
Landon Tate, East Peoria
Connor McLeod, Gibson City
Jiayang Tan, China
John Dee, Champaign
Leonardo Andrade, Champaign
Peter Herrmann, Rockford
Amina Jackson, Chicago
Daniel Wyckoff, Buckley
Earned an Instrument Rating Certificate
Paul Hildebrandt, Bethany
Andrew Greene, Champaign
Donald Brown, Beecher City
Trevor Krause, Frankfort
Gabriel Aaron, Geneva, Switzerland
Earned the Commercial Pilot Airplane Single-Engine Rating
Spencer Mohr, Campton Hills
Trenton Edelman, Forrest
Theoplus Coleman, Urbana
Maxwell Neville, Geneva
Jeffrey Lucas Stimson, Park Ridge
Earned the Certified Flight Instructor Airplane Single-Engine Certificate
Kyle Schum, Mahomet
Andrew Frey, Champaign
Earned the Instructor-Instrument ASEL Certificate
Kyle Schum, Mahomet
Jacob Walwer, Watseka
Earned the Commercial Pilot Multi Engine Land Certificate
Kyle Schum, Mahomet
Jose Mora, Arcola
Moises Diaz, Schiller Park
Chloe Graver, St. Joseph
Brook Van Gundy, Arcola
Dongjin Shin, Champaign
Ivan Guan, Chicago
Photos of the flight students who earned awards is available on the institute's Facebook page.
Parkland College assumed ownership of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Institute of Aviation in fall 2014, leasing its aircraft and facilities at Willard Airport in Savoy to continue flight training. The community college has continued the excellent instruction provided by the university's institute, which educated more than 13,000 pilots in its 70-year history. Many of its graduates are employed in the aviation industry around the world.
Along with the two-year degree in aviation, students can earn a private pilot certificate and commercial pilot ratings, including multi-engine land and flight instructor.