Parks College St. Louis

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Key Takeaways:

  • Saint Louis University's Parks College, founded in 1927 by Oliver L. Parks, was the nation's first federally certified flight school.
  • Today, SLU stands as the only Jesuit university offering a flight program, positioning it as a premier institution for flight education.
  • The program's Jesuit heritage uniquely focuses on developing students' ethical decision-making skills to benefit their personal, professional, and community lives.
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From Parks College: Saint Louis University’s Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology was the first federally certified flight school in the nation, founded by Oliver L. Parks in 1927. Today, Saint Louis University is the only Jesuit university with a flight program, making us a premier institution for flight education. This Jesuit heritage means students learn to make ethical decisions that contribute to their personal and professional goals and allow them to enrich the community in which students live and work.

Isabel Goyer

A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.
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