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Demolition at Embry-Riddle Makes Space for
State-of-the-Art James Hagedorn Aviation Complex
Construction of the James Hagedorn Aviation Complex began Jan. 13, 2009, with the demolition of the 37-year-old Gill Robb Wilson Flight Training Center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach campus.
At the controls of a track hoe excavator, Embry-Riddle President John Johnson kicked off the demolition that will make way for the state-of-the-art Aviation Complex, a 96,000-square-foot, three-building facility housing the campus’s flight training operations, aircraft maintenance training, and a fleet maintenance hangar.
James Hagedorn, chairman, CEO, and president of Scotts Miracle-Gro and an Embry-Riddle alumnus and trustee, pledged $2.5 million to help build the $26 million facility, which will complement the College of Aviation Building, completed in 2002.
In addition, the Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust has pledged $2 million to help fund construction of the Emil Buehler Aviation Maintenance Science building; the facility will house cutting-edge labs dedicated to aircraft systems, turbine engines, metallic and composite materials, avionics, and avionics electronics. The facility will also include classrooms, a licensed engine repair station, a machine shop, offices, and a third-floor observation deck overlooking the Daytona Beach International Airport runways.
The Gill Robb Wilson complex was a 29,600-square-foot facility that housed the campus’s flight operations, a flight tower, instructor pilot offices, and flight briefing/debriefing spaces.
Gill Robb Wilson (1893-1966) was a World War I fighter pilot, war correspondent, founder of the Civil Air Patrol, editor of Flying magazine, and dedicated proponent of aviation and aviation education.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs, with accreditation pending for Embry-Riddle’s first doctoral programs, in Aviation and in Engineering Physics. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.
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