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Several cadet squadrons Visit US Airways Training Center

Cadets and seniors from the Asheville, Shelby, Gastonia, and Charlotte squadrons
Cadets and seniors from the Asheville, Shelby, Gastonia, and Charlotte squadrons (click image to view full size)
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tour Simulator and Air Museum

By 2nd Lt. Scott Stevens
Ashville Composite Squadron, PAO

3/28/2014–Asheville, NC–Several cadets and seniors from the Asheville, Shelby, Gastonia, and Charlotte squadrons met  in Charlotte at the US Airways Training Center on Saturday, March 22, to take a tour of the both the Boeing 737 full-motion training simulator and the NC Air Museum, which houses some of the most important pieces of NC aviation history.

Those in attendance took a turn on the Boeing 737-300 simulator used to train the pilots who fly for US Airways. Afterward, the group  toured  the NC Air Museum,  located at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, which contains numerous aircraft such as a fully restored Douglas DC-3, an F-14 Tomcat, and the actual Airbus A320 made famous when Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed it on the Hudson River in January of 2009.