SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — With MTSU Aerospace-branded planes flanking the stage on which he would speak, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee joined Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney A. McPhee on Thursday, Sept. 21, in ushering in a new era for the university’s growing Aerospace Department.
With several hundred people — including MTSU students, staff and Diamond and Piper aircraft — attending the special event at Shelbyville Municipal Airport, the long-time president .
Shelbyville, Tenn. - Middle Tennessee State University s Aerospace Department is entering a new era as it prepares to move to a new state-of-the-art campus in Shelbyville. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee joined university officials, local leaders, and hundreds of attendees at the announcement event on September 21, 2023.
SHELBYVILLE, TN - Thursday marks a big date in MTSU Aerospace History, as university officials gather at the Shelbyville Municipal Airport to celebrate a $62.2 million expansion in flight.
Middle Tennessee State University and its nationally acclaimed Department of Aerospace will embark on a new era of flight training as its Flight Operations Center readies a move to Shelbyville. This move will include dispatch, simulators, maintenance management concentration, lab spaces .
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tony Briotta would’ve enjoyed attending Middle Tennessee State University’s May 5 commencement to personally receive his master’s degree, but he was working.
And, you could say he was just 45,000 feet from graduation and Murphy Center, where four total commencements found more than 2,650 fellow students graduating during the course of two days.
As a Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. test pilot based out of Savannah, Georgia, Briotta and a co-pil .