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MARYANN BATES
Aviation Program Expands
to Macon Downtown Airport
By Bill Weaver
The geographic significance of the moment Adon Clark, interim dean of the School of
was not lost on the participants. Aviation, reflected on the occasion, in which
officials from Middle Georgia State and Macon-
Middle Georgia State, with campuses in Macon, Bibb County announced they had signed a lease
Cochran, Dublin, Eastman and Warner Robins, that will permit the University to expand its fixed-
had just announced that it would establish wing flight and airport management instruction
another center where teaching would take place. to the Macon Downtown Airport.
It’s at an airport in eastern Bibb County, and it’s “You could look around that hangar and see
an expansion of the University’s aviation political leaders from many jurisdictions, which
programs already offered at the Heart of Georgia shows the support this new initiative has,
Regional Airport in Eastman. The announcement especially in and around the Macon-Bibb County
came during a ceremony in October.
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