Training and Workforce
Partners Aim To Halve Cost of Four-year Aviation Degree
Central Christian College and International Aero Academy announced a partnership to develop more cost-effective aviation degree programs.
Besides its new partnership with Central Christian College to develop a lower-cost four-year aviation degree program, International Aero Academy also placed an order for six two-seat, all-composite Tecnam P2008 light sport airplanes to be used as trainers. The first will be delivered in the second quarter. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter/AIN)
Besides its new partnership with Central Christian College to develop a lower-cost four-year aviation degree program, International Aero Academy also placed an order for six two-seat, all-composite Tecnam P2008 light sport airplanes to be used as trainers. The first will be delivered in the second quarter. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter/AIN)

“The aviation college degree programs are broken; they cost too much, don’t include instructor ratings, and have too few hours to get a job with an airline when graduating,” International Aero Academy president and CEO Steven Markoff said on Tuesday at Sun n Fun 2018. “I aimed to fix that.”