Interview with the Root

During last weekend’s Turkey Drop Fly For The Culture gave away 100 turkeys and offered free introductory flights to folks like 4-year old Christian Mathias. The day also featured tours of airport buildings and facilities. Read more at the Gaston Gazette.

American Airlines welcomed students of West Charlotte High School to their state of the art training facility. During the tour, which is a part of Fly For The Culture’s mission to promote diversity and inclusion in aviation, aspiring aviation professionals learned about the various vital roles that Science, Technology, Engineering, Aviation, and Mathematics (STEAM) professionals…

Come by the Gastonia Municipal Airport on November 17th for a Turkey Drop! We’ll be giving away turkey and leading airport facility tours, as well as offering 5 free discovery flights through our partnership with the Academy of Aviation.

Fly For The Culture Founder & CEO Courtland Savage was featured again in the Aircraft Owner’s and Pilot’s Association (AOPA) magazine. In this session, he discusses unexpectedly encountering a passion for flying during an introductory flight, and the joy he now gets out of taking kids up for their own first flights. Read more at AOPA.

Fly For The Culture founder Courtland Savage met with Fox news for a local segment on the non-profit’s role in promoting diversity in aviation. They were joined by Benjamin Teasley, a recent high school graduate who is now learning to fly after discovering aviation careers during the American Airlines Facilities Tour earlier this year. Read…

“Courtland Savage did not grow up living and breathing aviation. He had a fear of heights. He saw airplanes at the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport, where he would occasionally go with his father. But he never saw anyone who looked like himself flying an airplane, so he didn’t think that was a possibility.” Read more…