Auburn leadership and community is celebrating School of Aviation Director James Witte after he received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.
The Auburn University family is celebrating after one of its directors received a prestigious award from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The award is the FAA’s highest honor issued to pilots certified under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 61,. The award was established in 2003 and consolidated the FAA’s other pilots’ recognition programs. It was named in honor of America’s first pilots, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Dean Jason Hicks, Maria Witte, associate dean of the Graduate School and Witte’s wife, Alabama State Representative Joe Lovvorn, and Auburn Mayor Ron Anders.“The Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award is more than an individual recognition,” Witte said,In 1964, Witte joined the United States Army and spent time as a helicopter pilot, where he flew operations in Vietnam and Pakistan. He retired from the military in 1990.
In 2020, Witte was tasked to lead Auburn’s College of Liberal Arts’ Departments of Aviation. The program has since been designated as the School of Aviation.
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