FBOs
Aviation Training Lab To Address MRO/FBO Skills Gap
An aviation technical training lab set to open at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport this summer will teach MRO and FBO skills.

Barrington Irving, the founder and CEO of Flying Experience and The Flying Classroom, detailed plans for a new aviation technical training center today at the NBAA Regional Forum at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport (KOPF). The Oliver G. Gilbert III Innovation Lab, named after the current Miami-Dade board of county commissioners chairman, is set to open this summer at KOPF.

The goal of the facility is to help students gain technical skills that enable them to have careers in business aviation, but which are also transferable to other fields. Irving told AIN that technical training at the lab will include line service skills such as tanker and tug operation, GPU utilization, lav servicing, and aircraft marshalling, as well as advanced remote pilot operations and aircraft maintenance.