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FBO Profile: Auburn Aviation—Auburn, Alabama

Auburn University has operated its own airport and its FBO since the 1940s.

Alabama's Auburn University has operated its own airport and FBO for more than 80 years. With traffic levels growing, the airport administration is looking to expand ramp space and add a new T-hangar complex to accommodate more of the approximately 100 light aircraft, small jets, and turboprops that call KAUO home. (Photo: Auburn University)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

March 1, 2022

Auburn University in Alabama knows a thing or two about aviation. It should, with its predecessor offering aerodynamics instruction as early as 1910, just a scant seven years after the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight. By the early ’30s, aviation administration courses were part of its educational offerings, and in 1939, as the world balanced on a precipice, the university acquired a privately-owned airport—now known as Auburn University Regional Airport (KAUO)—to enable it to participate in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, a federal plan to jumpstart the flow of military pilots in case of war. Nowadays, the university has approximately 600 aviation students at any given time, split between the flight degree program and the aviation management degree.

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