A Maine teenager just earned her airplane pilot’s license while also balancing Type 1 diabetes.We first met Casey Raymond in 2021, not long after she learned her diagnosis, in the middle of her flight training at the Augusta State Airport. Federal rules require people with Type 1 diabetes to provide documentation proving they are safe to fly.In late February, the Federal Aviation Administration approved Raymond’s third class pilot’s license as a private pilot. The senior at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School is now 17 and flying high and thinking big.”Doing supply runs to areas in need that have been hit by a natural disaster,” she says. “Or even like the whole war with Ukraine thing, there are a bunch of pilots who are flying supplies out there.”Raymond is now working toward getting her second class license to be a commercial pilot. She also hope to attend the University of Maine at Augusta’s aviation program.
A Maine teenager just earned her airplane pilot’s license while also balancing Type 1 diabetes.
We first met Casey Raymond in 2021, not long after she learned her diagnosis, in the middle of her flight training at the Augusta State Airport.
Federal rules require people with Type 1 diabetes to provide documentation proving they are safe to fly.
In late February, the Federal Aviation Administration approved Raymond’s third class pilot’s license as a private pilot. The senior at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School is now 17 and flying high and thinking big.
“Doing supply runs to areas in need that have been hit by a natural disaster,” she says. “Or even like the whole war with Ukraine thing, there are a bunch of pilots who are flying supplies out there.”
Raymond is now working toward getting her second class license to be a commercial pilot. She also hope to attend the University of Maine at Augusta’s aviation program.