he decided to purchase an airplane kit from Zenith Aircraft Company i

 

students in his program, Aircraft Building Engineering Technology. stanyarhouse.com The program works in collaboration with Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu.

“The concept is, if you teach them how to build, technotoday.org they will fly what they build,” said Adio. “And once they fly what they build, then they can fix what they’ve flown.”

“We cannot continue to chase jobs that do not exist, We have to create new job opportunities,” He added.

More so, he decided to purchase an airplane kit theamericanbuzz.com from Zenith Aircraft Company in Mexico, Missouri for his students to build. Rather than assembling it together in Nigeria, he decided that the best learning opportunity would be for the students to travel to the U.S.

However, only students who completed the first two years of Adio’s program at the ICA, would be eligible to travel. Five students eventually made the cut, they are; David Opateyibo, Fausat Idowu, Aliyyah Adio, Michael Fakuade and Abdul-Hafeez Onisarotu.

The students would be in Mexico until September while they work at the factory to fully construct their own two-seater airplane. They will then ship the finished plane back to Nigeria and put it into use as both a training tool and a functional airplane.

Sebastien Heintz, owner and president of Zenith Aircraft Company in Mexico, said discussion with Adio about bringing students for the learning programme began several years ago. Originally only a workshop was discussed.