Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center

It currently offers full Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and transport-certified repair and maintenance programs.

[4] In 1991, the Pennsylvania College of Technology announced its plans to expand its aviation education facilities in response to a growing need for certified repair and maintenance training programs for current and future aviation industry employees.

Dedicated on June 25, 1993, during a ceremony that included addresses by college president Robert Breuder and Kathryn Wentzel Lumley, a member of the college's board of directors and co-founder of the nationwide literacy improvement program, Reading Is Fundamental, the new building featured avionics and composite materials laboratories, an "engine demonstration area" with "remote control video cameras," an 11,000-square-foot hangar, and a sheet metal shop, making it the"one of the largest and most advanced aviation instructional facilities in the Northeast.

"[5][6][7] In 2000, Dr. Francis M. Powers Jr. and William T. Castle donated a "single-engine, retractable-gear, Velocity airplane" for instructional use.

Built in 1994, using composite materials, the plane had just eighty-five hours of flying time when it was acquired by the college, and was valued at $137,000.