Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 3

48 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 LEGACY. DESIGN. SERVICE. PROUD PARTNERS OF THE CITY OF GRANBURY Granbury Regional Airport Terminal Building architecture engineering interiors planning alexandria atlanta austin boca raton chicago dallas/fort worth denver hoboken houston las vegas los angeles salt lake city san diego pgal.com When it comes to promoting aviation as a career, there are a couple of things going on in the City of Granbury that are unique. Stewart recounts, “About five years ago we introduced an aircraft build program to the High School. This program partners with the High Schools STEM Program so that high school students can participate in building an LSA aircraft. The students have built and flown three aircraft in the five years since we started the program. The High School also has a four-year Aviation and Aerospace Engineering program. The intention is not only to provide an opportunity for kids to get a Private Pilot’s License, but also intended to help them earn college credits. Additionally, it also intends to eventually seek credit toward an A&P license. It’s working great and lots of kids participate. Some of them want to be engineers and mechanics, which surprised me a little bit – I was expecting they would all come out and want to be pilots, but it turned out to be about 50/50.”