Here’s a list of website links from associated establishments & museum sponsors
Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Centura College, and Tidewater Tech Trades
The Fighter Factory is part of the Aircraft Discovery Division of the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, a leading aircraft mechanic school with headquarters in Virginia Beach. The Aviation Institute of Maintenance is one of four schools located in the United States. The other schools are Centura College, Centura Institute, and Tidewater Tech.
Aviation Institute of Maintenance
This school is an FAA Approved institute that offers ACCSC accredited programs in Duluth Georgia, Irving Texas, Indianapolis Indiana, Kansas City Missouri, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Chesapeake Virginia, Manassas Virginia, Orlando Florida, and Houston Texas. In addition they offer two online programs in Human Factors, and Aviation Maintenance Management.
Centura College & Centura Institute
Our Centura schools offer programs in allied health, business, Criminal, legal, computer networking and HVAC. Location of these campuses include Orlando Florida, Charleston, and Columbia South Carolina, and in Virginia, Alexandria, Chesapeake, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Virginia Beach. In addition our Virginia Beach campus offers online programs available worldwide.
Tidewater Tech
Tidewater Tech is a trade school offering vocational programs in welding, auto mechanic, building repair and HVAC. This school is located in Norfolk Virginia with programs accredited by the Council on Occupational Education (COE).
Further Information about Our Schools
For further information on our schools, please follow the links below.
Centura College
Tidewater Tech
Centura Institute
Aviation Institute of Maintenance
Fighter Factory operates and mainatins many WWII & WWI flying military aircraft including:
Fighters | Bombers | Trainers |Liaison & Other historical Military antiques
Spitfire | P-51 Mustang | Hawker Hurricane | TMB Avenger | P-40 Curtiss | PBY Catalina | FG-1D | SNJ-2 | SNJ-4 | T28-D | Corsair | Dragon Rapide | B-17 Flying Fortress | B-17 omber | Polikarpov PO-2 | Polikarpov I-15bis | Polikarpov I-16 Rata | Polikarpov I-163 | YAK | A-26 Invader | Focke Wulf Fw-190 | Junkers JU-52 | Ryan PT-22 | Sopwith Strutter | Tiger Moth DH-82A | SPAD SXIII | FM-2 Wildcat | Stearman N2S-3 | AD-4 Skyraider | Alabtros D.Va | Avro 504K | Beechcraft T-34B | Bell P-63 | Bleriot X1 | Peashooter P26-D | Jungmeister 133C | Chipmunk DGC-1 | WACO YMF-5 | V1 Flying Bomb | Storch Fi-156 | Focke Wolfe FW-44J | Fokker Tri-Planes | Fokker Bi-Planes | Halberstadt | Hawker Fury | TG-4A | Russian LA-9 | Nieuport model 11 |
The above list is incomplete and we have more aircraft available at the museum
Fighter Factory – 1341 Princess Anne Road, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23457
Fighter Factory
is the restoration & maintenance & facility for the
Military Aviation Museum.
The new hangar was recently built in April 2011 on the grounds of the Virginia Beach Airport adjacent to the Museum
.
We employ a team of 15 highly skilled and experienced aviation technicians to ensure our aircraft remain safely in flight operational status. Meeting all FAA standards as required
Restoration Work
In addition to aircraft maintenance, Fighter Factory staff are also involved in much of the aircraft restoration projects, either on-site or at remote locations.
Whenever new aircraft are acquired for the museum it is the responsibility of Fighter Factory staff to become technically proficient and knowledgeable in that particular aircraft. To ensure flight safety for pilots & ground crew
