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title: "After fire, Indigenous flight school students soaring again in Seneca planes"
type: "article"
space: "MyNews"
author: "Tiffany Hsieh"
created: 2022-05-26T12:57:56Z
updated: 2022-05-26T12:57:56Z
tags: ["feature-stories"]
url: "https://students.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/112/mynews/articles/feature-stories/6525/after-fire-indigenous-flight-school-students-soaring-again-in-seneca-planes"
---

# After fire, Indigenous flight school students soaring again in Seneca planes

Two single-engine aircraft have departed Seneca’s Peterborough Campus in support of the only postsecondary Indigenous aviation program of its kind in Canada.

After a recent fire destroyed a Second World War-era hangar and all 13 planes used by the [First Nations Technical Institute](https://fnti.net/about-us) \(FNTI\), Seneca’s [School of Aviation](https://www.senecacollege.ca/school/aviation.html) leased FNTI two of its 17 Cessna 172s. This has allowed their students to continue flight training.

[Read the full story](https://www.senecacollege.ca/news-and-events/seneca-news/after-fire-indigenous-flight-school-students-soaring-again-in-seneca-planes.html?utm_source=mynews&utm_medium=ei&utm_campaign=FNTI#.html)