Black Pilots of American To Meet 

The Annual Black Pilots of America (BPA) will be held on Memorial Day at Grider Field in Pine Bluff (AR).  The activities start on Thursday, May 27^th and go through Sunday May 30^th.  Friday’s events will include a Pace Program presented by the LIT FSDO.   

Speakers include Jarrett McFarlin, LIT FSDO SPM-OPS, Steven Buckner, Fort Worth SPM-OPS, Caleb Rice, LIT FSDO SPM- Maintenance, and John Knight of the Arkansas Department of Aeronautics. 

Fuchsia Davis will be one of the guest speakers at this year’s event.  Davis is a junior at Germantown High School & Aviation and Aerospace Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was selected by her teachers to visit the United States Air Force Academy. Davis is involved with the Civil Air Patrol, Black Pilots of America, and a high school Junior Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps. She has attended the Flight Exploration Camp 2001 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Black Pilots of America Summer Flight Academy. Davis obtained her CFI this summer and her CFII. From flight instructor, she would like to work for a small airline or charter service.  Davis hopes to become a captain for a major airline, just like her uncle.  Fushsia Davis finished high school in June 2003 and by October 2003, had earned the following license and ratings: 

Private Pilot License

Instrument Rating

Multi-Engine Rating

Commercial Pilot License

Certified Flight Instructor

Certified Flight Instructor –Instruments

Multi- Engine Instructor

Citation Jet –type rating

She has also logged time in the Cheyenne, Citation Jet, King Air, and whatever else she can get into.

She is currently a college student and working as a flight instructor with Sky Blue Aviation Academy at

Morristown Municipal Airport (MMU) in Morristown, NJ. She is a member of the Roscoe Draper Chapter ChaChapter (Philadelphia, PA) 

The Black Pilots of America is a non-profit membership organization committed to introducing under represented youth to aviation.  It was organized in 1997.  For more information go to www.bpapilots.org.