NFF Technologies in Aliquippa offers this “perk” making appliance for Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, and Bombardier airplanes.
Though many SIU graduates may work for NASA, this alum is the only astronaut.
This museum at BVI is dedicated to local aviation history and the restoration and preservation of aircraft and artifacts.
On May 10, 1967 Capt. Roger Netherland, a Beaver County native, was piloting a Douglas Attack Aircraft Skyhawk (A-4C) when he was shot down in THIS COUNTRY. His remains were recovered on September 12, 1989 and identified on June 1, 2000. His name is on the Memorial wall in Washington DC.
The replica Curtiss P-40 Warhawk at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport honors this area native who was the Army Air Corps’ first flying ace of World War II.
This government agency operates a Certificate Management Office (CMO) in Moon Township.
The current aircraft at the Air Force Reserve unit (911th Airlift Wing) at PIT.
This McKeesport native was the first woman commercial airline pilot and flew for Central Airlines, calling AGC home base.
Pittsburgh native and USAF pilot who was the 8th man to walk on the moon in 1971.
What is now a renowned aircraft mechanic trade school, this AGC based institution was founded in 1927 with the help of Clifford Ball.
In 1947 an Air National Guard unit was formed at Pittsburgh Airport with the 146th and 147th Fighter Squadrons flying this airplane.
Before the merger with American Airlines in 2013, this carrier’s Pittsburgh roots traced back to the company that started as All American Aviation 1939.
During WW2 the Curtiss Wright plant, now the Eaton plant, located in Vanport manufactured these propulsion system components.
In 1928 this renowned aviator crash landed on a 45-acre grass runway field where Fox Chapel High School is today. The Avian II plane went up on its nose, breaking the propeller and leading edge of its left lower wing. It was a bad crash but fortunately no one was seriously injured.
Flight 427, the 737 that crashed in Hopewell in 1994, belonged to this airline.
In 1929 Charles Lindbergh landed his “Spirit of St. Louis” at this airfield that preceded AGC.
The number of SIU students in the first Aviation Management class (2016) held in partnership with CCBC.
This county airport is named after an Academy Award winning actor and National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee who flew 20 combat missions in WW2. He remained in the Air Force Reserve after the war and retired in 1968 as a brigadier general.
PIT land use before it was an airport.
This Pittsburgh native was a driving force behind the first airfield and airport in the area. He lobbied Congress to have the Airmail Act of 1925 passed, then operated the first airmail route from Pittsburgh to Cleveland in the late 1920s. He was the first superintendent of Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and in 1955 became the director of Allegheny County Airport. In 1990 he was inducted into the PA Air National Guard Hall of Fame.
In 1996, while wandering around the PIT terminal, band members of Phish read a plaque dedicated to Ball. This prompted them to name their three-day festival in Plattsburgh NY after him.
County airport where Amelia Earhart received instrument training and had long range fuel tanks installed on her Lockheed 5B Vega.
When dedicated on September 11 1931, this was the third-largest airport in the U.S., the nation’s only hard-surface airport and the first with a fully lighted airfield.