WICHITA, KAN. – The Wichita Aero Club launched its third year by spotlighting Air Capital’s newest aviation resource, the National Center for Aviation Training at the club’s January 18, 2011 luncheon held in the center’s 258,000 square foot complex located on the north end of Wichita’s Colonel James Jabara Airport. Speakers included Wichita State University President Donald Beggs, National Institute of Aviation Research Executive Director John Tomblin, and the center’s new president and chief executive officer, Dr. Tony Kinkel.
One of the center’s key strengths is that it has the capability to take the most advanced research and quickly transfer it to the production floor. The center is also looking into whether to offer weekend airframe and power-plant classes. The center would like to get into robotics and industrial mechanical systems to go along with its composites, painting and coating, and engineering and avionics programs.