Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center

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Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center
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KWL Aviation Center as seen from landing aircraft at IPT
Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center
General information
StatusOperational
Location Montoursville, Pennsylvania
Address500 Airport Road, Montoursville, PA 17754
Opened1993
Technical details
Floor areaTotal: 50,000 sq. ft
Hangar: 11,000 sq. ft
Website
Official website

The Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center abbreviated as KWLAC and KWL Aviation Center, is a private college aviation center in the United States. A branch of the Pennsylvania College of Technology, which focuses on aeronautical studies, this center is located roughly seven miles from the college's main campus, on the grounds of Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. Plans for the center were announced in 1991. [1] [2] [3]

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The center's first courses were presented in 1993. It currently offers full Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and transport-certified repair and maintenance programs. [4]

History

In 1991, the Pennsylvania College of Technology announced its plans to expand its aviation education facilities in response to a growing need for certified repair and maintenance training programs for current and future aviation industry employees. Construction work began on the center's new 50,000-square-foot building in 1993, which cost $6.5 million and was described as "a contemporary building with a gray metallic and red exterior and a red, black and white interior decor." Dedicated on June 25, 1993, during a ceremony that included addresses by college president Robert Breuder and Kathryn Wentzel Lumley, a member of the college's board of directors and co-founder of the nationwide literacy improvement program, Reading Is Fundamental, the new building featured avionics and composite materials laboratories, an "engine demonstration area" with "remote control video cameras," an 11,000-square-foot hangar, and a sheet metal shop, making it the"one of the largest and most advanced aviation instructional facilities in the Northeast." [5] [6] [7]

In 2000, Dr. Francis M. Powers Jr. and William T. Castle donated a "single-engine, retractable-gear, Velocity airplane" for instructional use. Built in 1994, using composite materials, the plane had just eighty-five hours of flying time when it was acquired by the college, and was valued at $137,000. [8]

In 2007, the private college's aviation center was renamed as the Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center, in honor of Kathryn W. Lumley. [9] [10]

FedEx Express subsequently donated a Boeing 727 to the university in 2010. The center currently offers training in the repair and maintenance of that Boeing 727, as well as two Cessna 172s.

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References

  1. ↑ Hilliard, David. "Students chart new course." Sunbury, Pennsylvania: The Daily Item, April 4, 1993, p. E1 (subscription required).
  2. ↑ "Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center - Penn Tech". PCT.edu. 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Penn College becomes 4-year school." Sunbury, Pennsylvania: The Daily Item, August 19, 1992, p. 5A (subscription required).
  4. ↑ "Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center - Penn Tech". PCT.edu. 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Hilliard, "Students chart new course," The Daily Item, April 4, 1993.
  6. ↑ "Penn College to dedicate $6.5 million aviation center." Sunbury, Pennsylvania: The Daily Item, June 24, 1993, p. 7 (subscription required).
  7. ↑ Beauge, John. "Tech college chief high on aviation center." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Evening News, January 18, 1993, Midstate Business, p. 3 (subscription required).
  8. ↑ "Penn College receives $137G, single-engine, 1994 airplane." Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania: Press Enterprise, August 25, 2000, p. 9 (subscription required).
  9. ↑ Hilliard, "Students chart new course," The Daily Item, April 4, 1993.
  10. ↑ "Kathryn W. Lumley," in "Newsmakers." Sunbury, Pennsylvania: The Daily Item, April 28, 2002, p. C4 (subscription required).

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