{"id":27731,"date":"2025-02-06T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27731"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T20:51:42","slug":"airbus-helicopters-in-the-us-establishes-scholarship-for-division-of-aviation-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/airbus-helicopters-in-the-us-establishes-scholarship-for-division-of-aviation-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Helicopters in the US establishes scholarship for Division of Aviation students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University Foundation has announced the establishment of the Airbus Helicopters Inc. Rotor-wing Scholarship to benefit students in the Division of Aviation at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship is generously endowed by Airbus Helicopters in the U.S. to support underprivileged, low-socioeconomic, or need-based students who are planning to be trained as pilots in the helicopter industry.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Helicopters is the world&#8217;s largest leading manufacturer of civilian and military helicopters. A division of Airbus, Airbus Helicopters employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide. Its fleet in service includes nearly 12,000 helicopters operated by more than 3,000 customers across 150 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Helicopters\u2019 U.S. division opened its main facilities in 1969 in Grand Prairie, Texas. It also operates a production line in Columbus, Mississippi. Airbus Helicopters\u2019 products are the U.S. market leaders for air medical transport, law enforcement, airborne tourism and in the corporate and VIP segment.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient of the scholarship must be a student in the Marshall University Division of Aviation who has financial need per the standards of the Office of Student Financial Assistance. The recipient must be training to be a helicopter pilot and willing to be involved with Airbus in helping improve the rotor-wing training curriculum and enhancing helicopter industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>For information regarding the Airbus Helicopters Inc. Rotor-wing Scholarship, please contact Marshall University\u2019s Office of Student Financial Assistance at 304-696-3162.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Foundation has announced the establishment of the Airbus Helicopters Inc. Rotor-wing Scholarship to benefit students in the Division of Aviation at Marshall University. The scholarship is generously endowed by Airbus Helicopters in the U.S. to support underprivileged, low-socioeconomic, or need-based students who are planning to be trained as pilots in the helicopter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27735,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions\/27735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}