Atlantic City International Airport may soon be home to a new college in South Jersey.
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, located in New York, has been working with Atlantic County, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and others to bring an 18-month certification program in aircraft maintenance to the airport.
The goal is to train and certify people in the area, creating aircraft maintenance and repair jobs locally, according to Greg Derham, of the Garden State Education Group, a nonprofit that works with school districts and colleges to create middle-class jobs.
The long-term objective is to train a workforce and then have large airlines bring in planes from Philadelphia or New York to Atlantic City International for repairs.