Parkland College Students Earn Flight Credentials
More than 45 credentials earned during summer, fall terms
The following students earned flight credentials from the Institute of Aviation at Parkland College during the college's summer 2018 and fall 2018 terms.
Soloed for the First Time in a Piper Archer
Leonardo Andrade, Champaign
Sam Arend, Urbana
Evan Burge, Mahomet
Adam Cafin, Champaign
Daniel Cooper, Downs
Ryan Coulson, Mahomet
Sarah Day, Danville
John Dee, Urbana
Joshua Dye, Lockport
Peter Herrmann, Rockford
Rashid Hussain, Savoy
Ian Kunz, White Heath
Andrew Laub, Oregon
Aaron Padilla, Rantoul
Cody Pankau, Tuscola
Landon Tate, East Peoria
Daniel Wyckoff, Buckley
Jiaqi Yang, Shanghai, China
Earned a Private Pilot Airplane Single-Engine Land Certificate
Donald Brown, Beecher City
Ashley Dani, Champaign
Sarah Day, Danville
Joshua Dye, Lockport
Ian Kunz, White Heath
Jacob Renfrew, St. Joseph
Earned an Instrument Rating Certificate
Cullen Brucker, Melvin
Bryson Chancellor, Tolono
Lucas Charles, Sidney
Theoplus Coleman, Champaign
Trenton Edelman, Forrest
Louis M. Farrakhan, Crete
Spencer Mohr, Chicago
Colin Rudicil, Mahomet
Earned the Commercial Pilot Airplane Single-Engine Rating
Chloe Graver, St. Joseph
Jose Mora, Arcola
Kyle Schum, Mahomet
Dongjin Shin, Champaign
Jacob Walwer, Watseka
Allison Whitfield, Staunton
Earned the Certified Flight Instructor Airplane Single-Engine Certificate
Moises Diaz II, Schiller Park
Justin Jacobson, Downers Grove
Jacob Walwer, Watseka
Earned the Certified Flight Instructor Instrument Airplane Single-Engine
Tristan Polk, Champaign
Earned the Commercial Pilot Multi Engine Land Airplane Certificate
Justin Jacobson, Downers Grove
Kai Lopez, Urbana
Jacob Walwer, Watseka
Hui Wang, Urbana
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.