Aviation experts from industry, academia, and government will converge on Georgia Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering June 3-5 for the Second Annual Meeting of the Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS).

Coordinated by the Federal Aviation Administration's Center of Excellence (COE) for General Aviation, the three-day meeting will focus principally on the sharing of technical information among members, but will also include public addresses from FAA officials, including FAA Research Division Manager Dr. Eric Neiderman, during its Wednesday proceedings.

Established in 2012, PEGASAS is a multi-university team selected by the FAA to serve as its new Center of Excellence for General Aviation. The partnership's research focuses on the primary needs of the general aviation sector, including safety, structures and propulsion systems, human factors, weather and NextGen technology applications.

PEGASAS research has been headed up by core integration teams from Georgia Tech, Purdue and The Ohio State University. Their work has been backed up by core team members from the Florida Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, Texas A&M University.

Affiliate members include: Arizona State University, Florida A&M, Hampton University, Kent State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Oklahoma State University, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Tufts University, Western Michigan University and University of Minnesota, Duluth.

PEGASAS industry and organizational partners are GE Aviation; Battelle Memorial Institute; NetJets Inc.; Cessna; Gulfstream; Piper; Raytheon; Rockwell Collins; Cirrus; Flight Safety Foundation; Guardian Mobility; Harris Corporation; Jet Aviva; NextGen AeroSciences; Nelson Consulting; Rolls-Royce; The Spectrum Group; Take Flight Solutions; Woolpert; the Flight Deck Display Research Laboratory at NASA Ames; Columbus Regional, South Bend and Fort Wayne Airports; Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Indiana Departments of Transportation; the National Business Aviation Association; the National Intercollegiate Flying Association; and Ohio Aerospace Institute.