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Building a Strong K-to-Career Aviation/Aerospace Pipeline

By Kathryn B. Creedy

Few realize the power held by aviation’s chapter groups like the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance or Women in Aviation International but even fewer of these groups work together to create what will solve the aviation/aerospace workforce shortage once and for all – an aviation/aerospace education ecosystem offering up the K-to-Career pipeline our industry wants but has no time to create.

Chapter groups are our force multiplier, an army of aviation and aerospace workers and enthusiasts in every corner of America.

Much of what we need is already there including the blueprint for what is missing in the current programming with the Youth Access to Aviation Jobs in America Task Force (YIATF) report, which, with the Women in Aviation Advisory Board report, continue to gather dust at the DOT. The National Coalition of Aviation and Space Educators aims to bring them to fruition. We cannot wait on government to act.