Three flight schools will participate in event for Aviation Education Day at regional airport

VIENNA -- Three flight schools will participate in an Aviation Education Day open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.
The Penn/Ohio Alumni Club of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University will host the event. Embry-Riddle, with campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., was ranked first in U.S. News & amp; World Report 2006 Best Colleges guide's category for Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering schools without doctorate programs.
Participants will include Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, a training school for aviation maintenance; Aeroservice of Miami, which trains pilots for commercial air carriers, corporate flight departments, government agencies and the military; the AM Air Flight Centre in the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, which provides a full complement of flight instruction for anyone interested in learning to fly; and Kent State University Trumbull Campus, offering related degree programs.
PIA has been in negotiations to locate a school at the local airport and is expected to have the facility in place sometime in 2006.
Guest speakers will include representatives of all four schools, as well as attorney John J. Masternick of the Western Reserve Port Authority, which operates the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. Guests who indicate an interest will tour the airport and the AM Air Flight Centre.
The public is invited to the open house; however, those who are planning to attend are asked to notify Chuck Johnson, the port authority's air services development manager, by e-mail at yngwrnair@aol.com, or by phone at (330) 539-4233 or (330) 856-1537.