(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Community College of Beaver County)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) Community College of Beaver County Foundation has announced a $50,000 leadership gift supporting the college’s “Future Takes Flight” aviation capital campaign, marking the first public contribution toward the initiative.

The donation will fund the purchase of an air traffic control tabletop simulator designed to replicate real-world runway environments, including layouts modeled after Beaver County Airport, Pittsburgh International Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration training academy in Oklahoma City.

College officials said the simulator will provide hands-on training for students in CCBC’s James M. Johnson School of Aviation Sciences.

The “Future Takes Flight” campaign supports construction of a 30,000-square-foot Aviation Sciences Center at Beaver County Airport. The project is intended to expand training capacity and incorporate new aviation technologies to meet workforce demand.