Help Delilah Soar: Fund Her Pilot Education

My name is Delilah Billinghurst and I am a young African American woman aspiring to become a pilot. I will be attending Saint Louis University this fall majoring in Aeronautics Professional Pilot to get my Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics. This is a very selective program and I was one of the students to be selected. I started my journey in Aviation a year ago when I attended OBAP Ace Academy. OBAP stands for Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals. Through this program, I went and met many different people and learned their stories of how they got involved in Aviation. Throughout the experience, we visited Boeing, Gary Jet Center, United Airlines, and visited Tuskegee NEXT Cadets. Going to these different places really solidified that I want to be a pilot. The journey of becoming a pilot is still what I am trying to figure out. There is the Air Force route or there is the civilian route. I finished the ACE academy at the top of the class and later in the year, I got an email saying I had been recommended for AIM High Flight Academy. This was an extremely selective Air Force program to allow students into Aviation and take a look at it through the lens of the Air Force. This was a three-week program where I attended South Dakota State University and stayed on campus with 17 other students where we took ground school lessons, 15 flight hours, and 5 hours of flight SIM fully covered. This program was challenging, but it gave me a glimpse of what my school would be like.

Please support me in my mission of $30,000 for my first semester of college. My flight fees are $14,000 to obtain ground lessons and SIM. With each donation of $50 or more, you will receive a shirt in place of your support. I will be writing a monthly newsletter to let everyone in on my journey to becoming a pilot, so please click the link below.

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Best Regards,

Delilah Billinghurst