Flight school.Henderson State University Henderson State University is a four-year public university located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and serves as Arkansas’s public liberal arts college. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. in Arkadelphia is on standby, hoping it will be one of the few schools in the country that teaches students to be air traffic controllers. The school, which already offers four-year degrees in aviation, has applied to the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control to teach the program, said Hank hank n. 1. A coil or loop. 2. Nautical A ring on a stay attached to the head of a jib or staysail. 3. A looped bundle, as of yarn. Wilson, director of aviation at Henderson. In the next month, the school should find out if the FAA is coming to town for a site visit. "If they approve that, then there's a good chance we'll actually have a school here," Wilson said. Now, only 33 schools in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. teach air traffic controllers, a profession that had a median annual salary of just under $120,000 in 2006. Wilson said that if the school is selected, classes could start in the fall of 2010 with a class size of 120 students. |
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