In August 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials broke ground on a $20 million aviation training center at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Next week (10:30 a.m., Friday, April 11) the facility will be dedicated. We’ll post some pictures of the celebration of completion of this long-term project, so be sure and check back.

Here is a link to the original news release about the groundbreaking: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2006_news_releases/082006/08252006.xml

Here is a photo of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection repelling exercise that took place last fall at Will Rogers. One of our airport operations officer's, Terri, snapped this picture.  

In April 1930, the New York Times quoted Will Rogers saying, "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." In April 2008, Will Rogers World Airport offers passengers the following reasons to slow down, so not to rush by this beauty. Hats off to airport groundskeeper Kathy Claunch for maintaining various landscapes across the airport campus.