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Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology (Spartan) is a private for-profit aviation college in Tulsa, Oklahoma.It was originally established to provide pilot and technicians for Spartan Aircraft Company but outlived its parent company and continues to train pilots and mechanics into the 21st Century.
The aviation and aeronautics industry has about 120,000 employees and a $44 billion economic impact annually on the state, said Grayson Ardies, the executive director of the Oklahoma Department of ...
June 10, 1950: a USAF Douglas C-47 lost power on takeoff and crashed into an aviation school barracks. Three men were injured, one fatally. [46] January 6, 1957: American Airlines Flight 327, a Convair CV-240, struck trees 3.6 miles north of the airport and slid some 540 feet. One person was killed out of the 10 on board.
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Robert S. Kerr Airport covers an area of 175 acres (71 ha) at an elevation of 450 feet (137 m) above mean sea level.It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,007 by 75 feet (1,221 x 23 m).
The airport was built as a civil airport on land donated by the Neustadt family in the name of World War I pilot Max Westheimer to the University of Oklahoma and land from the city of Norman, Oklahoma. It was taken over by the U.S. Navy in 1941 and expanded as a training field; it was then called the Naval Air Station Norman. It was transferred ...
The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission (OAC) is an agency of state government that is responsible for promoting aviation in the State. Under the supervision of the Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation, the Commission fosters the growth of the aerospace industry and ensures that the needs of business and communities in the State are met by the State's airports.
Enid was the first city of Oklahoma to have a municipally owned airport. [5] The airport was dedicated in 1928, and built on 80 acres of land donated by a citizen backed by the American Legion, and Enid passed a $50,000 bond, making it the first city in Oklahoma to use bonds to fund an airport.