UND Aerospace Foundation Joins Team M1’s Flight School First

DENTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--M1 Support Services (“M1”) announced today that the UND Aerospace Foundation (“UNDAF”) has joined Team M1 to bring unmatched academic perspective and flight training expertise to the Army’s Flight School Next (“FSN”) program. FSN is an innovative Army initiative designed to improve student pilot proficiency while reducing costs with a turn-key Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated (“COCO”) service.

The UND Aerospace Foundation is the not-for-profit support organization of the University of North Dakota’s (“UND”) John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, collectively known as UND Aerospace. As an operational foundation, the UND Aerospace Foundation works with the Odegard School to provide aviation training, expertise, and consulting services to the U.S. military, other U.S. and international aviation colleges and universities, and governments and airlines across the globe. UND Aerospace operates a commercial training fleet of 150 aircraft flying 175,000 hours annually. With offices in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Mesa, Arizona, UND Aerospace Foundation is known worldwide in the aviation industry for its excellence in aviation education.

“UND Aerospace has a decades-long history of producing high-quality pilots, including many who went on to distinguish themselves as Army Aviators,” said George Krivo, Chairman and CEO of M1 Support Services. “UND Aerospace also recently partnered with the Air Force to provide Initial Pilot Training (IPT) utilizing FAA Part 141-certified courses, and that experience providing COCO flight training to the military will prove invaluable for Flight School Next.”

“The U.S. Army’s Flight School Next approach will make America stronger by streamlining pilot training and emphasizing safety and quality, while meeting the Army’s training goals,” said Chuck Pineo, CEO of the UND Aerospace Foundation. “We look forward to adding our long history of pilot training and academic excellence to the M1 team, making them the only choice to lead the next generation of pilot training at Ft. Rucker.”

M1 supports all branches of the military in managing, operating, and sustaining large scale aviation training enterprises. At Fort Rucker, M1 supports a 240,000 Flying Hour Program, scheduling, launching, recovering and maintaining, and sustaining hundreds of aircraft daily. The scale, scope, and complexity of this program are unmatched among the several large training fleets supported by M1 across the Services, making M1 unique among industry partners.

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