COPA Morris Kansun Memorial Scholarship

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants should be at least 18 years of age.
• Applicants must at a minimum have their Private Pilot License (PPL) and provide proof of their PPL.
• Applicants must be current COPA members in good standing and for at least three months before applying.
• Applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

Ineligible Applicants

• To ensure that as many aviators can benefit, successful applicants from previous years of the COPA Scholarship Program are not eligible to re-apply.

Eligible costs of training include the following:

• costs of ground school, including books and required materials for the courses;
• costs of instructor time and training aircraft;
• the direct flight training portion of tuition in programs offered by secondary or post-secondary schools, including colleges and universities.

Costs that are not covered include the following: non-flight training tuition at secondary or post-secondary schools, including colleges and universities, personal meals or transportation to and from the training facility, clothing, aviation equipment or supplies which are not required for the program. COPA will have the final authority to define and approve authorized expenditures.

Funds will only be disbursed to the flight school, not directly to the recipient, and can only be used to cover training costs incurred after the awarding of the scholarship. Training completed prior to the scholarship award is not eligible for funding.

Any funds remaining at the conclusion of training will be reinvested in COPA’s Flight Safety Foundation for future scholarship awards.