Iowa Western Community College will receive a $500,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to help purchase new tools and equipment for its aviation maintenance technology program.
Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation officials and others welcome the UH-1 Huey helicopter that will be part of the memorial to the construction site on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.
Iowa Western Community College students are restoring a Vietnam-era helicopter that will be on display in the planned Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Papillion.
Donated plane helps aviation students in Council Bluffs Follow Us
Question of the Day By MIKE BROWNLEE - Associated Press - Sunday, January 3, 2021
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - As the newest addition to Iowa Western Community College aviation technology department’s fleet of airplanes, taxied to its new home, a group of students excitedly watched before jumping into action to get the bird in the college’s hangar.
Robert Faulk, an Omaha physician, donated the 1981 Piper Cheyenne 2XL on Thursday, giving the program its newest, nicest plane to help enhance students’ work as they prepare for careers in the field.