Dream Big Showcase Article Dave Bassett, Founder and CEO of Amerijet International receives the prestigious Wright Brothers Award By Tracey Tarrant
What Exactly is the Dream Big Showcase? Do you know someone who had a dream and went for it? Are they living their dream despite the odds? Each issue of Nothing But Good News Magazine will feature a unique individual that threw caution to the wind and went after their dream. Submit your ideas to KandeeG@KandeeG.com
The focus of the Dream Big Showcase is to highlight someone who has thrown caution to the wind and are living their dream. It takes courage, dedication and determination to make your dreams a reality and those we showcase here have excelled in that arena. This issue, we are pleased to highlight a very special someone in the life of Kandee G and the staff at Nothing But Good News Media. Each year, one of the premier affairs for the aviation industry is the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s Wright Brothers Memorial Awards Presentation event benefiting the Association’s Batchelor Aviation Scholarship Fund (formerly the Grover Loening Scholarship Fund).
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The highlight of the Awards event is the presentation of The Wright Brothers Trophy, an impressive and beautiful silver trophy cup with the engraved names of past Wright Brothers Memorial Award Recipients. These leaders in aviation have included such notable pioneers as George T. Baker, George Batchelor, Frank Borman, L.B. “Bud” Maytag, Curtiss H. Pitts, John Paul Riddle, Col. Rockwell, Fran Sargent and Gordon Bethune. Wright Brothers Memorial Award The Greater Miami Aviation Association Wright Brothers Memorial Award is the most prestigious of the GMAA’s awards. Having begun in 1927 as a pioneering Miami based Florida focused civil aviation advocacy group, today the GMAA membership and activities are concentrated in and encompass the advancement of the aviation and aerospace community on
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a global scale. The Greater Miami Aviation Association Wright Brothers Memorial Award parallels the growth and evolution of the GMAA organization. It is proudly presented to an internationally distinguished industry leader whose substantial contribution to the aviation and aerospace community reflects the innovation, vision, conviction and admired business principles attributed to the positive impact and legacy upon aviation of the Wright Brothers. This year, the honor of this incredible award was bestowed upon none other, than the amazing husband of our very own Kandee G…Mr. Dave Bassett. What follows is the dedication given to Dave from Kandee G at the awards ceremony. When she was done, there was not a dry eye to be found in the room. And deservedly so.