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Hudson Valley Regional Airport
Students in the airframe and power plant training program will earn 1,950 hours of experience both in and out of the classroom, working with FlightLevel mechanics at the airport in a cooperative learning setting. Students who successfully complete the program will be certi ed to work on any aspect of a plane.
“Our hope is to expand this and make it a center, a part of a whole growth plan that we have for the airport,” says Virginia Stoe el, dean of community services and special programs at Dutchess Community College.
After the maintenance facility opens and instruction begins, FlightLevel will turn its attention to the opening of a Cirrus Service Center.
Cirrus, which manufactures the single-engine SR20 and the SR22— the world’s best-selling single-engine plane since 2004—would service its aircraft at the Dutchess County center, one of more than 200 worldwide.
Cirrus operates a service center at Norwood Memorial Airport, a
Above: The design of a new state-of-the-art 32,000-square-foot mechanics operation facility to be built at the airport. Through an innovative partnership with Dutchess Community College, the operation will include a Federal Aviation Administration-certi ed mechanics training program. Opposite: Aerial view of the airport.
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