MARTA Research Center

The MARTA Center – Mediterranean Aeronautics Research & Training Academy is located in the new teaching and scientific center of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture located in the scientific and technological center of Santa Panasia, Enna. The Center hosts the teaching and research activities of the Degree Course in Aerospace Engineering and is the first laboratory in Europe equipped with flight simulators for research activities on the Aeronautical Human Factor.

Inside the MARTA center there is a Full Motion level “D” flight simulator that replicates the CESSNA Citation C560 XLS aircraft and a static FNPT- MCC II simulator of the EC-135 twin-engine rotary wing aircraft. The Center's facilities also include classrooms and teacher offices for the Aerospace Engineering degree course and the four reference laboratories for the course: LIMA laboratory – Aerospace Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, HFA laboratory – Aeronautical Human Factor, MAN laboratory – Modeling and Numerical Analysis, materials laboratory.

Presidential Decree No. 246/2019