FSU Receives Federal Funds For Aviation Program

The Aviation Center for Excellence at Fairmont State University will receive $270,000 from the Department of Education to purchase equipment.

A military aircraft carrying Mandela's body departs from Waterkloof military airbase for the Eastern Cape on Saturday in Pretoria, South Africa. The plane is silhouetted against the bright sun in a blue sky with some white clouds.

The Aviation Center for Excellence at Fairmont State University will receive $270,000 from the Department of Education to purchase equipment.

The funds were acquired via a Congressionally Directed Spending request by Senator Joe Manchin through the Fiscal Year 2023 funding bill.

Fairmont State offers a variety of aviation related bachelor’s degrees and is West Virginia’s only Part 141 FAA certified school offering programs in Aviation Administration & Professional Flight.

In recent years schools around the state, including Marshall and Shepherd Universities, have created more aviation programs in response to a workforce shortage in the aviation industry.

In 2020, 3,600 West Virginians were employed in the aviation industry with an average salary of $78,000.

Author: Chris Schulz

Chris is WVPB's North Central/Morgantown Reporter and covers the education beat. Chris spent two years as the digital media editor at The Dominion Post newspaper in Morgantown. Before coming to West Virginia, he worked in immigration advocacy and education in the Washington, D.C. region. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and received a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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