Fairmont State UniversityFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Bridgeport, West Virginia

Fairmont State University is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 1050 E. Benedum Industrial Drive in Bridgeport, West Virginia 26330, under air agency certificate Q20S831K with location designator Q20S. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Clarksburg, WV micropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is North Central West Virginia (KCKB) at Clarksburg, a towered field at 1,224 ft elevation, 0.7 mile from the school's listed address. The listed address is on or beside the airfield, which is the usual arrangement for a Part 141 operation flying from its own ramp. The Census geocoder could not match the FAA street address to a rooftop, so this distance is measured from the 26330 ZIP-code centroid and is approximate. 2 public-use airports sit within 10 miles of the address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists at least five other Part 141 locations; the closest is Cloud 9 Aviation in Washington, PA at 58 miles, followed by Marshall University at Wheeling, WV in Wheeling at 59 miles. West Virginia has 5 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #36 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Martinsburg (2), Bridgeport (1) and Charleston (1).

The FAA record carries an agency phone number, (304) 367-4225, and an agency email, tbayne@fairmontstate.edu; it carries no website, so the contact details above are the only ones the FAA publishes for this location. Certification under Part 141 means the FAA has approved the school's training course outlines, facilities and chief-instructor arrangements and inspects them; it is not a quality ranking, and it does not by itself mean the school is VA-approved for GI Bill funding or accredited for federal student aid.