Boeing 727 Classroom Opens on Sun ‘n Fun Campus

Pia Bergqvist and Megan Elliott

Thursday, April 07, 2016 at 11:01 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

A donated FedEx Boeing 727-200 has been transformed into a fully functional classroom, named the Piedmont Aerospace Experience, for students at the Central Florida Aerospace Academy on the Sun 'n Fun campus.
This unique educational facility provides an unparalleled hands-on learning experience, allowing students to sit at the controls, power up the plane, and go through actual checklists.
The classroom is equipped with modern technology, including 30 Samsung tablets, a smartboard, and 11 cameras that display the plane's control movements, fostering an highly interactive aerospace education.

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A Boeing 727-200 that was donated by FedEx to the Sun ‘n Fun campus in 2013 is now up and running. Named the Piedmont Aerospace Experience, the airplane has been turned into a fully functional classroom that provides a unique educational experience to students at the Central Florida Aerospace Academy, a public high school located on the Sun ‘n Fun and Florida Air Museum campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport.

If you’re attending the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo this week, you won’t be able to miss the massive airplane, which is permanently parked just west of the main show entrance, adjacent to the Central Florida Aerospace Academy.