Campus
NTSB Training Center • 45065 Riverside Parkway • Ashburn, Virginia 20147 • 571-223-3900
The NTSB Training Center is located on the Northern Virginia campus of The George
Washington University, which is ten miles north of Washington Dulles International Airport.
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State-of-the-Art Training Facility
The Training Center's new 72,000-square-foot, two-level facility, includes:
- Five classrooms equipped with advanced audio/video systems and Internet connectivity
- Two conference rooms
- Video conferencing facilities
- Student lounge
- Laboratory to house instructional wreckage, including the 93-foot reconstruction of the forward portion the TWA flight 800 aircraft's fuselage, the largest reconstruction in the history of civil aviation
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Virtual Tour
See the NTSB Training Center campus, including the main lab, via the Virtual Tour:
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Instructional WreckageUnderwater recovery
and wreckage reconstruction were some of the extraordinary skills needed
to determine the cause of several recent accidents, including the flight
of TWA 800. The reconstruction of the center fuselage of this Boeing
747 was the largest and most complex ever undertaken in the history of civil aviation. It is now being used as an important teaching and training
tool at the Training Center.
Click here for more information on the TWA Flight 800 accident.
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Calverton,
NY (1997)
The reconstruction of the 93-foot section of the forward fuselage of TWA flight 800 took place over the winter and spring of 1997 in a hangar in Calverton, New York. The reconstruction of
the Boeing 747 fuselage includes the center wing fuel tank, the
heaviest structural part of the plane. It weighs about 60,000 pounds (not
including the steel framework on which the airplane pieces were assembled)
and consists of almost 1,600 pieces, including more than 700 from
the center wing fuel tank.
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NTSB Training Center, Ashburn, VA (2003)
In the fall of 2003, the
disassembled reconstruction was transported to the NTSB Training Center in
Ashburn, Virginia where it was reassembled.
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NTSB Training Center, Ashburn, VA
(2004)
The reconstruction has been used to train
hundreds of investigators from around the world in accident investigation principles and techniques.
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Hotels and Restaurants
Hotels and
Restaurants Near the NTSB Training Center in Ashburn, Virginia
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Local Attractions and Tourism Information
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Local Transportation
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Maps to the Training Center
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Driving Directions in Printer-Friendly Format
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