{"id":19192,"date":"2021-08-16T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19192"},"modified":"2021-08-16T19:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:32:52","slug":"west-virginia-aeronautics-commission-touts-opening-of-bill-noe-flight-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/west-virginia\/west-virginia-aeronautics-commission-touts-opening-of-bill-noe-flight-school\/%20","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Aeronautics Commission Touts Opening of Bill Noe Flight School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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West Virginia Aeronautics Commission Director Sean Hill was\non last week to witness a ribbon cutting for Marshall University\u2019s Bill Noe\nFlight School. The commercial aviation training school, located at Yeager\nAirport in Charleston, is scheduled to open for the fall semester on Monday,\nAug. 23, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The West Virginia Aeronautics Commission, part of the West\nVirginia Department of Transportation, played an important role in bringing\nairport officials, officials from Marshall and the Federal Aviation\nAdministration together to get the project off the ground. In addition, Gov.\nJim Justice matched federal funding to help build a road to the facility, which\nis located on a former runway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshall University President Jerome A. Gilbert, Yeager\nAirport Director Nick Keller, Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, Charleston Mayor\nAmy Goodwin, Kanawha County officials and flight school namesake Bill Noe took\npart in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the flight school on Tuesday, Aug. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Aeronautics Commission played a key role in furthering\naeronautic education in West Virginia,\u201d said Keller. \u201cThe road opened up all\nthis land for development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing and others in the airline industry have predicted the\nneed for tens of thousands of new pilots and aircraft technicians in the next\n20 years. Once fully up and running, the Bill Noe Flight School will enroll 200\nstudents a year, and graduate 50 new pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduates of the flight school will be qualified to fly\ncommercial airliners. The flight school will eventually have 15 to 20 aircraft,\nboth single-engine trainers and twin-engine trainers necessary for pilots to\nqualify to fly multi-engined aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noe, a Marshall University graduate and lifelong pilot with\n15,000 hours of flight time, is chief operating officer of NetJets, the world\u2019s\nfirst and largest jet charter service. He has taken an active role in the\ndevelopment of the flight school that bears his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Hill said supporting the flight school and Yeager\nAirport are part of the commission\u2019s ongoing mission to further aviation in the\nMountain State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a great moment for aviation in West Virginia,\u201d Hill\nsaid. \u201cI cannot commend Yeager Airport and Marshall University enough for\nbringing this concept to reality. Just think, a kid could play on the\nplayground at this airport, look up and fall in love with aviation. They get a\nlittle bit older and enroll in this flight school, or at one of the technician\nprograms across the state. The circle of inspiring future aviators is coming\ntogether with the completion of this school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA great benefit of today is that with Marshall University\ninvesting the time and resources in an aviation program, other universities and\ncommunity technical colleges are opening their eyes to the potential at hand,\u201d\nhe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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