North Idaho College Aerospace Center for Excellence Receives Federal Aviation Administration Certification

]The North Idaho College Aerospace Center for Excellence is now a Federal Aviation Administration-certified school for aviation mechanics.

The college received a nearly $3 million federal grant in late 2012 that helped create the Aerospace Center in Hayden, which has offered advanced manufacturing programs since the fall of 2013. To date, 87 students have been taught hands-on skills fabricating and repairing composite parts, operating a CNC mill or learned about non-destructive testing methods in that program.

To learn more, read the Coeur d'Alene Press article.