Parkland College Students Earn Spring Flight Credentials

Aviation Students Earn Spring 2021 Credentials

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
Evan Blakey, Findlay
William Eubig, Urbana
William Fonner, Effingham
Emily Plauck, Sycamore
Isaac Powell, Danville
Krishna Vasudev, Champaign


Earned the Private Pilot Airplane Single-Engine Land (ASEL) Certificate
Jacob Beuttel, Decatur
Charles Evans, Chicago
Ryan Hauge, Bartlett
Josh Kerner, El Paso
Arthur King, Tolono
Canyon Richardson, Durand
George Wilson, Champaign

Earned the Instrument Airplane Rating
Andrew Perry, Effingham
Patrick Kehias, Bloomington
Zach Chalk, Mahomet
Lukas Wright, Fairmount

Earned the Commercial Pilot ASEL Certificate
Amina Jackson, Chicago
Aubrey Glennon, Bement
Cody Pankau, Champaign
Logan Dirr, Bloomington
Landon Tate, East Peoria
Evan Burge, Mahomet

Earned the Flight Instructor ASE Certificate
John Kolis, Springfield
Ian Kunz, White Heath
Daniel Wyckoff, Buckley

Earned the Flight Instructor-Instrument Airplane
Maxwell Neville, Geneva

Earned the Commercial Pilot Multi-Engine Land Certificate
Timothy Arp, Decatur
John Kolis, Springfield
Leonardo Andrade, Champaign

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 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.

[photos from top: Cody Pankau, Charles Evans, Amina Jackson, Logan Dirr]