Aviation View | April 2021

122 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 Serving West Virginia Clients for Over 45 Years! ARCHITECTURE | ENGINEERING | TRANSPORTATION | GEOSCIENCES Quality Results. Safely Delivered. 500 Corporate Landing Suite 200 Charleston, WV 25311 304.746.3500 www.lrkimball.com weeks. “Think about it,” says Keller, “those sailors are staying in Charleston and they’re spending money in the local economy. So, what we’ve done at the airport is basically facilitate any of their training needs. And what they need depends on the type of service. We had helicopters practicing landings at the coal mine sites for example. But it could be everything from simulated combat, search and rescue missions, all the way to just landing in dirt and kicking up dust because that is what they run into when they deploy. The airport becomes like a staging base for their operations.” Yeager Airport also reached out to Marshall University, which is in the process of creating a school of aviation. Construction has started on a hangar and classrooms on airport property – the facility is around 12,000 square feet and is progressing ahead of schedule. Full completion is scheduled for July 2021 and Marshall’s first