John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (JDOSAS or UND Aerospace) is a part of the University of North Dakota

University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...

(UND) in Grand Forks, North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota

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. The school was formed in 1968. The school's fleet of 120 aircraft is based at nearby Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport is a public airport located five miles northwest of the central business district of Grand Forks, a city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States...

and is the largest fleet of civilian flight training aircraft in North America. Today, the school has many aerospace-related programs including commercial aviation, air traffic control, and airport management. Other departments that are a part of the School of Aerospace Sciences include Space Studies, Computer Science, and Atmospheric Science. Currently, the school has over 500 faculty and 1,500 students making it the second largest of UND’s degree-granting colleges. The present dean of the school is Bruce Smith.

History

John D. Odegard started the program in 1968 with only two donated aircraft and one other faculty member besides himself. Over time, the program was able to purchase more aircraft and grew dramatically in the number of students enrolled. In 1982, the Center for Aerospace Sciences was established as a result of the growth of UND’s atmospheric research and aviation education programs. In 1997, as part of a 30th anniversary celebration, the school took on its present name in honor of its founder.

The founder of the aviation program at UND, John D. Odegard, logged over 10,000 hours of flight time in his life and was licensed for commercial flight and instrument operations. He was type-rated in Cessna Citations, Learjet, and Beechjet, as well as being a CFI and certified examiner for commercial, instrument, tailwheel, multiengine, and Citation type-ratings. Having broken the sound barrier in the Concorde (as a passenger) and having flown as a crop-duster to help pay for college, Odegard was no stranger to the varied envelopes of flight. He was quite familiar with the many aspects of aviation and his vision for a well-rounded school which trains pilots in all aspects of flight helped the aviation program at UND become what it is today. Odegard died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 50. He is buried in Grand Forks, less than a mile away from the UND campus.

Facilities

UND Aerospace maintains facilities including 360 degree air traffic control tower simulators, a remote learning classroom, and a wireless network that is available throughout the entire aerospace complex on the main campus and in any of the buildings at the airport.

Main campus

All School of Aerospace Sciences facilities on the main UND campus are connected by a series of skyways. Buildings here include Odegard Hall, Clifford Hall, Ryan Hall, and Streibel Hall. The complex also includes several other buildings including the Center for Entrepreneurship, the Skalicky Tech Incubator, and the Grand Forks Hilton Garden Inn

Hilton Garden Inn

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.

Odegard Hall is the main building in the School of Aerospace Sciences complex on campus. It houses classrooms, the main office of the School of Aerospace Sciences, a full-motion spatial disorientation simulator, an altitude chamber

Altitude chamber

A hypobaric chamber, or altitude chamber, is a chamber used during aerospace or high terrestrial altitude research or training to simulate the effects of high altitude on the human body, especially hypoxia and hypobaria...

(used to teach flight students about the effects of various human factors in flight). Clifford Hall is the location of the Atmospheric Science department, the Space Studies Department, the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, the Scientific Computing Center, as well as the location of UND's 360-degree visual Air Traffic Control Tower simulator and UND's Polarimetric Doppler Radar. Ryan Hall is home to UND's flight simulators. There are two Piper Warrior flight training devices, four Piper Seminole flight training devices, and four Cessna 172 flight training devices. In addition, there are various simple instrument panel trainers and a basic instrument simulator CBI lab. Also in Ryan Hall is a radar simulator lab which is used to demonstrate radar based air traffic control. A 225-degrees tower simulator at rounds out the ATC facilities located at Ryan Hall. Also at Ryan is a Canadair Regional Jet flight training device which is used to provide a basic introduction to turbine engine systems and to prepare soon to graduate students for the pace of airline training. Finally, Ryan Hall is home to the remote classroom and several state of the art digital classrooms. Connected to Odegard Hall by a large, windowed room is Streibel Hall. Streibel Hall is the home of UND's Computer Science department.

Airport

The Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport is a public airport located five miles northwest of the central business district of Grand Forks, a city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States...

campus consists of the dispatch office where students request aircraft and are assigned to practice areas. The dispatch office opens out onto Bravo Ramp where the Seminoles, Arrows,and Decathlons are stored. It also connects directly to the display hangar where aircraft not in use are sometimes kept, and also where the Cheyenne and Beechcraft are generally kept. There are several other hangars lining Bravo and Charlie Ramp all owned by UND and used to hangar UND's large fleet at night.

Aircraft

UND Aerospace operates a fleet of over 120 aircraft. A majority of these aircraft are based at Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport

Grand Forks International Airport is a public airport located five miles northwest of the central business district of Grand Forks, a city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States...

while the rest are located at their various satellite campuses throughout the United States. The fleet is primarily made up of Piper aircraft, including the PA-28-161 Piper Warrior III. UND owns 46 of these simple, light trainers. Many of them have been upgraded to have "glass" flight decks, allowing instrument students and CFI students to learn how to fly with this technology. Rounding out the main fleet, providing capability to train for complex and multi-engine ratings, are 13 PA-28R-201 Piper Arrows with retractable gear and constant-speed propellers and 11 PA-44-180 Piper Seminoles with twin engines. UND had a small number of Cirrus SR20s but has opted to sell them. UND leases a King Air 200 for advanced fixed wing training and recently purchased a King Air C90B. These aircraft are primarily used for contract flight training for Air China, and is their last step before returning home. In addition, the university's fleet contains 2 American Champion Aircraft Super Decathlons which are used for aerobatic flight courses and to introduce flight instructors to spins, a level of training experience that few flight instructors have an opportunity to get. Other aircraft include a Cessna 150 to be used for spin training, and a Cub Crafters Top Cub used for Crookston's tailwheel and, during the summer months, UND's float plane training.

On Wednesday, March 28, 2008, the JDOSAS took delivery of a brand new Cessna Citation Mustang

Cessna Citation Mustang

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business jet. However, the school sold the aircraft in order to purchase a second King Air

UND will be retiring the Piper Warrior fleet sometime in 2011 in favor of their new Cessna 172 aircraft equipped with the Garmin G1000 glass cockpit package. The aircraft began delivery beginning in July 2008 and were initially be used for CFII and CFI students until there were enough aircraft that private and instrument students could use them. The Warriors are now only used for the Private Pilot course and Air China contract students.

Piper Warrior Glass	Piper Arrow	Piper Seminole	Cessna 172 G1000	Hellicopters	Tail Draggers	Other
N431ND	N204ND	N509ND	N511ND	Bell 206	Piper Cub	Cessna 150
N432ND	N278ND	N297ND	N512ND	N187ND	N18ND - CRK	N50405	N510ND
N433ND	N279ND	N298ND	N513ND	N7079P	N775PA	N50989
N434ND	N283ND	N299ND	N514ND	Schweizer 300	Decathlon	King Air C90
N435ND	N286ND	N326ND	N515ND	N1675U	N548ND	N405DD	N547ND
N440ND	N287ND	N491ND	N516ND	N2077E	N316CA	N6111V	N540ND
N442ND	N288ND	N492ND	N517ND	N2081G
N443ND	N289ND	N494ND	N519ND	N2183S
N444ND	N384ND	N580ND	N520ND	N75105		Cessna Citation II
N446ND	N405ND	N581ND	N521ND	N811TT		N555DS
N447ND		N582ND	N522ND	N585ND	N586ND	N21763	N8363C
N448ND	N7364H	N583ND	N524ND	N2161J
N449ND		N590ND	N525ND
N453ND		N593ND	N527ND
N454ND		N595ND	N528ND
N460ND		N596ND	N529ND
N461ND			N530ND
N462ND			N436ND
			N537ND
			N538ND
			N539ND		N579ND
			N545ND
			N550ND
			N551ND
			N552ND
			N556ND
			N557ND
			N558ND
			N559ND
			N563ND
			N564ND
			N565ND
			N566ND
			N567ND
			N568ND
			N569ND
			N570ND
			N571ND
			N572ND
			N573ND
			N574ND
			N575ND
			N576ND				N577ND

List is current as of 10 August 2010

As of March 2010, the last analog Warrior has left the fleet. The Glass Warrior fleet remains to be cut and Decathlon N68ND.

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