A scholarship honouring a young pilot from Saskatchewan has been established after the air ambulance he was aboard went missing off the coast of Massachusetts.
Thomas Farquhar was the first officer of the Heartbeat 104 Medevac, an air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Nantucket, Mass., on Oct. 3. The U.S. Coast Guard identified Farquhar as one of six people about the craft, which included four Canadians and two Bermudians.
The Tommy Farquhar Aviation Scholarship Fund, established by Farquhar’s family, will support aspiring pilots who share “Tommy’s passion for aviation and his commitment to using those skills to serve the needs of others,” according to a statement from Prairie College, a Christian college located in Three Hills, Alberta. …