SCRTTC Award Winners

Jim Ditch was a founding father of the SCRTTC. His passion for training and education was unprecedented. This Education Fund was established in honor of Jim and will provide much needed curso modelagem 3d to students who wish to pursue and/or advance their career in public transportation.

Here are a few of the James A. Ditch Education Fund Scholarship Award Winners:

For tax-deductible donations direct to the scholarship fund, please make checks payable to:

SCRTTC c/o James A Ditch Education Fund

Mail donations to:

SCRTTC
PO Box 731
Long Beach, CA 90801

For more information, please call (360) 945-2150

Thank you for supporting the James A Ditch Education Fund!

Visit the SCRTTC website here.

Aviation students from San Diego Miramar College are piecing together a historic plane for a special cause.

By Jeff Zevely, Reporter, www.cbs8.com

Students from San Diego Miramar College are earning their wings by pounding and sanding an old P-51 Mustang.

“It’s for the love of it. These beautiful aircraft have a lot of soul,” says Rolando Gutierrez.

Rolando is the chief engineer at Flyboys Aeroworks.

“This particular aircraft was flown by the Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two,” says Rolando.

Young hands are piecing together old parts that tell stories from the past. Daniel Smith, who graduated from San Diego Miramar College with a degree in aircraft maintenance, knows how to fit the jigsaw puzzle together.

“Without this piece, I wouldn’t have been able to decipher the blue print and put this back together the way it goes,” says Daniel.

All of the work is performed with patriotism under flags of red, white and blue.

“It’s amazing to be part of the history that got us to where we are today,” says Eric Zugner.

Eric says he often thinks about where America would be without these planes and the brave pilots who flew them.

“We would all be speaking German,” Eric says.

Once restored, the plane will be sent to the National World War Two museum in New Orleans and presented to Roscoe C. Brown, the legendary Tuskegee Airman.

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