Fly high with a college education in Richmond, the future home of Eastern Kentucky University's new flight training facility.

That's more than just a figure of speech.

In just a few minutes, we are going to break ground on the new EKU flight training center.

This major project is going to further fuel all the good things happening.

Eddy, you here in Madison County and all across the Commonwealth.

I know it's been in the talks and in the works for a couple of years now, but we're finally being able to break ground on our FBO, which is going to be awesome for our students.

I love a good place, like a comfortable, a comfortable little FBO to go into whenever I'm flying.

And it's it's going to feel like home.

And I'm so excited that our students are going to have a home here.

And you as a young boy, I grew up in southeastern Kentucky.

I've watched planes soaring across the sky and I dreamed of the day that I too would join them.

The men and women flying planes here at EKU.

I got that opportunity and I've been able to advance my time here with great instructors.

And this new facility will be better able to equip the leaders of tomorrow as they change the industry.

I'm excited just for it's a new look.

It's a new facelift.

The students that are here, they'll have something new to look forward to and the new students coming in will have something new to look forward to as well.

I think it'll bring a lot of growth to the university.

EKU is going to train the pilots that truly open the door and bring people to our new Kentucky home and the opportunities that await you already provides our only university based aviation program.

Right now, the program has more than 460 students, and I'm not sure they got a lot of applause for this next statistic that they should a 100% job placement rate.

How about that?

Whenever you hear aviation, you think airlines, you think commercial aviation, but nobody ever thinks about a flight instructing jobs which are helping build our future of pilots like it is they're teaching our future.

Pilots and instructors are so important.

I cannot thank our instructors enough for all that they do.

The countless hours that they put in.

Aviation has so many opportunities and jobs to put out there for people.

In a few short years, many of us students will be instructors ourselves or entering a new airline job.

But we'll always have a place near and dear to our hearts where we all start.

Here at UK UAV, Asian.

I was once told a mile of highway brings you a mile down the road, but a mile of runway takes you anywhere in the world.

Completion of the $25 million facility is supposed to be finished in 2025.

The Kentucky General Assembly agreed to fund the project earlier this year.