Photos taken at the airport in State College.
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Firefighters battled a controled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region.
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A team of Penn State emergency medical technicians moved a victim from the University Park Airport tarmac to a triage area during a full-scale emergency response exercise on May 23. The drill served as both a training and recertification exercise for response units around the region. Volunteers from the community acted as victims during the real-time drill.
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Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region. To view more photos from the University Park Airport emergency response exercise, click on the image above.
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Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region.
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Emergency medical technicians from throughout the Centre Region conducted a debriefing session on May 23 following a full-scale emergency response exercise at Penn State's University Park Airport.
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Emergency medical technicians from Mount Nittany Medical Center's Critical Care Transport Unit loaded a victim into an ambulance during a full-scale emergency response exercise at the University Park Airport on May 23. All commercial airports in the nation are required by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct on site emergency responses exercises every three years.
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Firefighters prepared to respond to a full-scale emergency exercise on May 23 at the University Park Airport. Emergency personnel from Penn State and municipalities throughout the Centre Region participated in the staged emergency.
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Firefighters from the Alpha Fire Company in State College discussed strategy while participating in a full-scale emergency response exercise on May 23 at Penn State's University Park Airport.
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Lieutenant Colonel Roy Long, Chief of Staff for the Pennsylvania Civil Air Patrol, communicated with emergency responders from the command post during emergency exercises on May 23 at Penn State's University Park Airport. The full-scale emergency drill included response crews from Penn State and the Centre Region.
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Kerri Bodle, Deputy Director of Bellefonte EMS, worked in the command post area during a full-scale emergency drill held at the University Park Airport on May 23.
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Emergency medical technicians responded to a victim during a full-scale emergency training drill on May 23 at Penn State's University Park Airport. Fire, hazmat, and EMT personnel from throughout the Centre Region took part in the simulated aircraft disaster exercise. Volunteers from the community acted as victims during the real-time emergency response exercise.
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A FedEx plane lands at University Park Airport, as seen from the Airport Control Tower catwalk. The tower, which was completed in December 2010, will be staffed by controllers starting Sept. 1.
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Most of the students traveling for their international reporting class trip to South Africa stopped to get a group photo in the airport upon arrival in South Africa on March 4. For more photos from the trip, click on the image above.
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The University Park Airport's new control tower was unveiled at a ceremony on Dec. 7. For more photos, click on the image above.
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Through the efforts of airport staff, elected officials, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Bureau of Aviation and several other groups, the University Park Airport was able to build and will soon operate a new, 82-foot-tall, air traffic control tower. The new tower was unveiled at an opening ceremony on Dec. 7.
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The ground floor of the University Park Airport control tower houses the electrical and mechanical rooms, and the emergency generators. Airport Assistant Director Ed Foster, right, explained to the group touring the facility that it would take failure of electricity from both State College and Bellefonte before the emergency generators would have to kick in to keep the control tower running....
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University Park Airport flight operations continued as normal as the cab of the airport's new air traffic control tower was seated atop the rest of the structure early on Thursday, May 27. For more photos, click on the image above.
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Approximately 260 volunteers, emergency response personnel and crisis coordinators were involved in a full-scale emergency response drill held May 27 at the University Park Airport. For more images, click on the photo above.
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Greg Tallman, a junior economics and finance major, is seen in the far left of this photo taken in the Philadelphia Airport with several other students on their way to Pasadena.
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Orientation leaders Eduardo Barrientos, left, and Jaclyn Bealer shuttled students from the University Park Airport to new international student orientation at Findlay Commons in East Halls. The University Office of Global Programs is welcoming approximately 1,000 new international students to Penn State's University Park campus this week.
