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50 graduate from Aeronautical Engineering School
Along with hosting its 22nd anniversary celebration, the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School, hosted its 17th graduation and prize-giving ceremony yesterday afternoon.
The ceremony was held at the Wings Aviation Hangar, Ogle. The occasion saw almost 50 students of the 2013 group being honoured for excelling in their various fields.
Chief Executive Officer, Captain Malcolm Chan-A-Sue, the graduates. He gave a brief background of the school, it’s “humble beginnings” – one desk alone, to the school’s rise to becoming a major tertiary educational institution in Caricom with an ISO 9001 Certified Quality Management System, which it has managed to uphold thus far.
He said that the school could not have been what it was if not for the hard work and determination of its instructors and the students’ willingness to learn.
Chan-A-Sue added that the school will be attempting to obtain certification from the European Aviation Sector Authority (EASA), with coordination from the United Kingdom Caravan Engineers Association (UKCEA) which he pointed out, is the highest license in the world.
A section of the gathering yesterday, including some of the honourees
Present at the ceremony was Pilot Linden Hillman who has served almost four decades in the aviation fraternity both locally and abroad. Hillman said that he returned to Guyana at the invitation by Chan-A-Sue. For a country and a career that has given him much, he has decided to give back.
Hillman has consulted with Southwest Airlines, to which he is attached, and has asked that an internship programme be put in place.
“I went to my company and said, I needed some help and what could they do to help the folks of this school?…So right now, Southwest Airlines and I have begun, in conjunction with the school, we are going to work to get Southwest Airlines to offer tutorships to the school,” Hillman stated.
Present at the ceremony was First Lady Sandra Granger who assisted in the handing out awards and prizes.
It was revealed at the ceremony that the school, under Chan-A-Sue, has graduated 293 Students under the Ab-Initio and Modular Programmes which commenced in 1993. These engineers have moved on to work across Guyana, the rest of Caribbean and overseas with a number of “major airlines”.
The School‘s student enrolment for the first Ab-Initio Programme in 1997 was seven. Enrollment this year stands at 128.
The School is operated by the Aircraft Owners’ Association of Guyana Incorporated and is accredited and certified by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System of CARICOM, Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority, Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Suriname.
An audit was conducted in February 2008 by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority where it found the school acceptable for certification within the British Overseas Territories in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean inclusive of Bermuda and the Falkland Islands.
It was further revealed that the School was certified on July 24, 2006 by the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards and is now certified to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems Standards.
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