Through CAU’s Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and the Associate of Science in Aviation Studies program, students can earn numerous certificates and ratings, along with their college degree, university officials said.
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‘Slow and steady’ recovery begins for avionics industry
“With avionics sales trending in the right direction over the last nine months, it appears that a slow and steady industry recovery is underway,” said AEA President and CEO Mike Adamson. “The last six months of 2020 saw a rebound in retrofit sales, and it’s encouraging to see forward-fit sales up sharply from the previous quarter in the aircraft manufacturing sector. As new products are introduced at the AEA Convention in June and EAA’s AirVenture in July, I’m hopeful that avionics manufacturers will be able to clear some of the supply chain hurdles they face and continue this upward trend.”
International Young Eagles Day returns June 12
“We are in many ways making International Young Eagles Day the restart point for the Young Eagles program after the COVID pandemic put most flights on hiatus for the past year,” said Jack J. Pelton, EAA’s CEO and chairman of the board.
Spirit of Flight Museum lands at KMAN
Now based in Westminster, Colorado, the Spirt of Flight Center is expected to move its collection to Nampa Municipal Airport in Idaho when its new facility is completed in November 2021.
Using Apple Maps to find Amelia
An amateur sleuth is using satellite images from Apple Maps to help find Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
Win a Grumman AA5 Traveler, help future aviators
Proceeds from the raffle will go to the East Central Ohio Pilots Association’s Education and Safety Foundation, which provides flight training scholarships to future pilots. Tickets are $75 for one and $195 for three, with just 4,000 tickets being sold.
ATP Flight School opens new training center in Dallas with plans to train 20,000 pilots by 2030
“With a shortage of qualified airline pilots representing 10% of the total professional pilot workforce by 2023,” the new training center at Arlington Municipal Airport in Texas “joins ATP’s 60 other locations nationwide to increase capacity and train 20,000 airline pilots over the next ten years,” according to company officials.
Construction begins on Trigger Gap pavilion
Fueling construction is a group of donors who will match all donations made by May 15, 2021, for the pavilion at the backcountry airstrip in Arkansas.
Space launch areas added to navigation charts
All 12 FAA-licensed spaceports, and other federal and private launch and reentry sites, are represented on the charts by a rocket symbol. These areas are in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia.