Yulista Aviation, Inc. Announces Annual Scholarship Program

PRESS RELEASE July 2010

(Huntsville, AL) — Yulista Management Services, Inc. is proud to announce that it has established an annual scholarship program with the University of Alabama Huntsville to promote and recognize academic efforts in the areas of engineering and program management. Yulista has initiated an annual scholarship award available to upper division undergraduate students in the fields of Engineering and Management.

These awards are available on a renewable basis to the selected full-time students, along with an internship program intended to prepare them for a career in the area of aerospace program performance. Additional information is available to interested students from the Financial Aid Office of the University.

Shown L to R: Dr. Phillip Farrington, Interim
Dean-College of Engineering, UAHuntsville, Dr Caron St. John, Dean-College of Business Admin., UAHuntsville, Ted Schmidt, Yulista Director of Logistics.

Yulista Management Services, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Calista Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation. Yulista currently has nine (9) locations in Madison County and one (1) in North Florida, with over 650 employees in North Alabama. Yulista provides a variety of support, maintenance, and modification services to various DoD offices, including rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft, combat support vehicles, and other applications. Yulista is an active business partner in the Tennessee Valley, doing business with over 1200 locally operated businesses, and contributing over $40 million per year in employee salaries and operating expenses to the local economy. Yulista Aviation, Inc., an affiliate with over 100 employees, operates an FAA Part 145 aviation repair facility at Madison County Executive Airport for General and Corporate aircraft. Yulista Aviation has been proudly certified since 2007 under AS9100 and AS9110, the exacting ISO standards for the aviation industry.