From the West Alabama Newsroom– The first graduates of a new Control Tower Operator Partnership Program in Selma — are now ready to start careers in the aviation industry. Drew Pacer of Ohio is one of seven new graduates of Advanced ATC’s CTOP program. “This program is specifically designed to help the FAA staffing levels in the federal contract world,”…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The United States Air Force is training pilots at an aviation program this summer at Craig Field Airport in Selma. The Aim High Flight Academy is a scholarship program for high school students and rising college freshmen who are interested in aviation. “We have the whole spectrum of interest in aviation here. Some of them…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A single mother in Selma now has a new career in the high-paying field of aviation — after completing an advanced training program at Craig Field in Selma. Paige Pritchett graduated from the Advanced ATC training program last year — a highly trained certified air traffic controller. The program features several weeks of classroom and…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A partnership between Wallace Community College Selma — the Craig Field Airport Authority — and Marion Military Institute — aims to transform the Black Belt region — through aviation. It’s called the Rural Aviation Consortium. And its goal is to provide students with a pathway to a career in aviation. Officials say the new program…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Hundreds of students from around the Black Belt were at Craig Field in Selma yesterday — for Aviation Day 2024. Aviation Day is sponsored by Wallace Community College Selma — and Craig Field Airport and Industrial Authority. Students got a chance to tour and explore over a dozen different planes and helicopters. There were also…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The effort to make Craig Field in Selma an aviation hub once again — gets a $3 million dollar boost — from a couple of federal grants. “Craig Field makes Selma unique,” said Executive Director Jim Corrigan. “We gotta leverage our assets, the long runway and all the hangars, to bring jobs” And Corrigan says…
Another aviation company is opening a facility at Craig Field.
Boeing will issue hundreds of layoff notices to engineers in Washington state this week. The Daily Herald reported Monday (https://goo.gl/BWosp) that a memo from the company’s vice president of engineering for Boeing Commercial Airplanes John Hamilton says the cuts are necessary to stay competitive. Hamilton also said in the memo that more cuts in engineering could come later this year….
