Business View Magazine | March 2020

221 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 YEAGER A I RPORT Huntington, which is 50 miles away, and we proposed that they start a school of aviation to do pilot training, training for aviation management, and mechanics. I’m happy to say that Marshall was very interested and committed. They’re going to open a whole new school of aviation and build it at Yeager that will open in August 2021. We’re going to have a professional flight training Bachelors program and a Bachelors in aviation management. They project 200-300 students within five years of opening. Then, they’re going to open a second school of aviation at the Huntington Tri-State Airport for airplane mechanics. Tying the education component in to the 25 acres of land that we have due to the access road being built made the Marshall University school possible and it really sets us up well to have aerospace companies come into the region. So, everything that we’re doing here – the increases in the general aviation area, the aviation school, the longer runway – all tie into the vision of being