Piedmont Airlines Donates PW120
Piedmont Airlines generously donated a Pratt & Whitney Canada Model PW120 turboprop engine for use at the PIA Hagerstown campus. The engine has 33 years of flight experience, serving Piedmont's former De Havilland Canada Dash 8 fleet. The first flight of the engine was from Salisbury, MD, to Baltimore,...
Building Industry Relationships: Embraer
PIA Administration made their first trip to the Embraer Hangar in Nashville, TN last week. The visit to the companies facility further strengthened PIA and Embraer’s already stellar partnership, as ideas and continued support between both organizations was discussed. President and CEO Suzanne Markle and Associate Director of Career...
Youngstown Students Awarded Bill Griffin Memorial Scholarship
The Ernie Hall Aviation Museum in Warren, Ohio awarded two fourth-semester students with scholarships on Monday, May 3rd. Troy Lindsay and Ryan Pentz were presented with the Bill Griffin Memorial Scholarship by Bob and Connor Griffin, brother and son of the late Bill Griffin. The recipients are able to...
Hagerstown Campus Celebrates Ten Years
For ten years, the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics in Hagerstown, MD, has strived to meet the demands of the aviation industry and the need for skilled technicians. April 29th, 2011, marked the first classes held in the region to educate future aviation technicians. Since its opening, the Hagerstown Campus of PIA...
PIA Named PNGAS Guard-Friendly School
The Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics was honored as one of only 48 schools to become a Pennsylvania National Guard Associations (PNGAS) Guard-Friendly School. The PNGAS Guard-Friendly School standards were designed to recognize institutions of higher learning that create a supportive learning environment for members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The...
MHIRJ Visits with PIA Campuses
Over the last several months, James Crites, Senior Recruiter for MHIRJ, visited PIA Hagerstown, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh to meet with prospective students. MHIRJ is a merging of two aviation organizations, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the CRJ Series program from Bombardier. The organization was seeking to hire for two locations, Bridgeport,...
The Aviation Foundation Awards Scholarship to PIA Student
Brian Saylor, a sixth-quarter student at PIA Pittsburgh, received a $2,500 scholarship from The Aviation Foundation. The Aviation Foundation was founded in 1997 and has focused on assisting students who are pursuing training in flight, aviation maintenance, air traffic control, meteorology, and engineering. The Board of Directors of The Aviation...
Crown Equipment Corporation visits PIA Youngstown
Interested to learn how students studying aviation get involved in non-aviation fields? PIA Youngstown hosted a visit from Crown Equipment Corporation last week, where Regional Recruiter Matt Jones spoke about employment opportunities available for 3rd and 4th-semester students. The forklift company designs and manufactures lift truck components like motors,...