Pittsburgh institute of aeronautics

Pittsburgh institute of aeronautics

At a glance

A host of elected officials and others attended Wednesday morning’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics’ Youngstown Campus in Vienna to celebrate a $1.3 million expansion project that entails a new two-story teaching facility. Some facts about the nonprofit organization:

PIA began in 1929, and the local campus offers a four-semester, 16-month course to train students in aviation-maintenance technology.

Participants learn skills necessary to earn their Federal Aviation Administration Airframe and Powerplant certification.

Graduates typically begin their careers as space-propulsion mechanics, airframe and power-plant specialists and electro-mechanical assemblers, as well as aircraft-maintenance, preflight, avionics, electronics, assembly, installation and field-service technicians.

Source: PIA