GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY — A two year waitlist was just cut down Monday as Northwestern Michigan College unveiled a 33,530 square foot aviation hanger.

The Director of Aviation at NMC, Alex Bloye, tells us it all started during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

“I had the opportunity to share with him this crazy idea that, that we and my leadership and my advisory committee came to was to expand the building, expand the hangar, not because, not just the building.” He adds We’ve heard that a number of times today, but it’s really the the missing part of the equation. So every, every square foot that we added here allows us more airplanes, which allows us to serve more students. ”

NMC is the only two-year college to offer an aviation program in the state and, until now, could only have 30 students enro

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