War Eagle Flying Team

01/08/2026

Join us on Tuesday, January 13th at 5PM in Library 3129 for our spring interest meeting. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about WEFT and join our team. Our first practice will be held on Wednesday, January 14th, from 5-8PM in Library 3129. War Eagle!

08/14/2024

03/02/2023

The War Eagle Flying Team is Nationals bound this May in Oshkosh, WI! Our team is entirely student organized and we are able to travel to these competitions because of the generous contributions of our sponsors and individuals who donate. These donations allow us to continue training and competing to help move Auburn Aviation to the top with regard to collegiate flight schools. If you would like to help support our team and make a donation please visit our donation page in our bio and with the link below! Thank you to everyone who has helped our team and allowed us to do what we love! - - https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/9a493781-db45-46f8-8300-6634a3102d45

01/17/2023

The War Eagle Flying Team is Auburn University’s competitive flight team who competes in multiple flight, ground, and simulator events against other collegiate flight schools. Our interest meeting will be hosted in the Library in Mell 4133 at 6:00PM on January 18, 2023! We can not wait to meet everyone! WAR EAGLE!

11/06/2022

Region IX SAFECON competition is officially finished and we’re off to Nationals in the Spring! The War Eagle Flying Team came home with Second Place overall! We had a great week down in Lakeland, FL competing against the other schools in our region!

Top Results of our Team:
2nd Place Overall
2nd Place Ground Events
3rd Place Flight Events
1st & 3rd in Unlimited Navigation
3rd Place Message Drop
3rd Place Aircraft Recognition
1st & 3rd Place Ground Trainer

Along with these outstanding scores, we had several members place Top 10 in other flight and ground events. We cannot wait for the National Competition this May up in Oshkosh, WI!

11/01/2022

The Region IX competition starts today!! Tonight we will begin competition with the Aircraft Recognition and SCAN events. We are so thankful to our sponsors for helping us make this competition possible for our team!

10/06/2022

WAR EAGLE! As we start gearing up for our regionals competition, we have released our team’s shirt for this season. This shirt pays tribute to the early foundations of the War Eagle Flying Team here at Auburn University with the logo dating back to our team from the 1990s. If you would like to help support our team and also rock the retro WEFT shirt, feel free to check out our website (in bio) and order one!

https://www.wareagleflyingteam.org/product-page/retro-weft-shirt

10/03/2022

What a great last couple of weeks we’ve had on WEFT!

Last weekend we hosted the Auburn Aviation Alumni Tailgate with . This event was a huge success getting to connect students with alumni and bring the Auburn Aviation family back together for homecoming.

Last week we finished our intramural soccer league with an overtime win coming down to the penalty kicks!

This weekend we completed the last of our tryouts for regionals and look forward to the coming practices as we ramp up for competition!

08/29/2022

Another great practice in the books! This was our first practice of the semester flying and we were able to check out many new members to fly. Can’t wait for the upcoming practices this semester leading up to regionals! 🛫

08/17/2022

Our fall interest meeting will be Wednesday, Aug 17th in Mell 4133. Come out and learn more about the War Eagle Flying Team! We look forward to seeing y’all there!

05/15/2022

NATIONALS 2022 is a wrap with a 9th place finish in the nation!

For the first time in program history, the War Eagle Flying Team won the following awards:

•Loening Trophy… “The Loening Trophy is a perpetual trophy presented annually to the outstanding all- around collegiate aviation program in the nation. The Loening Trophy is the rarest and oldest of all collegiate aviation awards.”

•American Airlines Safety Award
•Competition Safety Award
•Collegiate Aviation Progress Award
•Judges Trophy: 10th place
•Ground Events Championship: 10th place
•Flight Events Championship: 9th place

Individual Awards:
•Men’s Achievement Award: 2nd place, Eric Tivy
•Women’s Achievement Award: 3rd place, Maggie Hearn
•Instrument Simulated Flight: 5th place, Riley Hoag
•Message Drop: 7th place, Riley Hoag and Riley Colliau
•Unlimited Navigation: 7th place tie, Eric Tivy and Luke Russo
•Unlimited Navigation: 7th place tie, Thomas Bingham and Christopher Hopkins
•Unlimited Navigation: 9th place, Ashley Baldwin and Maggie Hearn
•Ground Trainer: 8th place, Riley Hoag
•Simulated Comprehensive Aircraft Navigation: 17th place, Eric Tivy
•Outstanding Team Member: Riley Colliau
•Along with several top 50 finishes

We had a great time at Nationals and are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to compete.