The International Wheelchair Aviators or IWA organization for short began in 1972 as just a once a monthly "fly to lunch" group of four paraplegic aviators,The Southern California
Wheelchair Aviators (SCWA) was started by Bill Blackwood, Ed Hays, Dan Rodewald, and Neil Adler. it has developed into a worldwide group of disabled and able bodied pilots interested in aviation and flying.
The international Wheelchair Aviators mission is to help disabled pilots in their quest to fly by providing valuable information about Federal Aviation Association (FAA) medical requirements, hand control availability and flight schools that work with those confined to wheelchairs.
Members have many different disabilities including paraplegia, quadriplegia, amputee, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, polio and other problems.
Through their hard work and persistence and with the help of a tolerant FAA medical system, hundreds of disabled pilots have been given the opportunity to fly, many to resume flying careers.
Over the part 36 years,hundreds of wheelchair pilots have flown thousands of hours all over the world and in many different types of aircraft using hand controls or whatever was necessary to operate the aircraft as pilot in command.
The worldwide organization also provides a current listing of disabled pilots, their injuries, type of plane flown, hand controls used, telephone and address.
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