Flight Schools

Former UAA students allege that the school failed to provide enough instructors, aircraft or flight time.

Sling Pilot Academy has expanded its operations to Long Beach, California, unveiling the “Whisper Sling”—a new, noise-reducing pilot training aircraft. The announcement was made during a ceremony on March 5 at the academy’s newly established campus at Long Beach Airport. With this expansion, Sling now operates five training schools across Southern California. The Long Beach […]

ATP Flight School announced it is expanding its training fleet with the addition of 61 new aircraft in 2025, according to a press release on Tuesday. ATP said the new deliveries will include 54 Cessna 172 Skyhawks—each equipped with advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics—and seven Piper Seminoles featuring Garmin G1000 flight decks. With these additions, […]

CubCrafters, based in Yakima, Washington, announced today (Feb. 4) that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) will take delivery later this year of three NX Cubs as the new aircraft for its Golden Eagles Flight Team. Based at ERAU’s Prescott, Arizona campus, the team competes in national collegiate aviation competitions, “regularly securing top honors,” according to the […]

Oklahoma State University (OSU) has expanded and upgraded its flight training program with three new Cirrus SR20 G7 trainers. The current fleet includes previous-generation SR20 G6 models. The primary advancement of the new aircraft is the Garmin touchscreen avionics system, “offering students a training experience that closely mirrors the systems they will encounter in their […]

Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., visited Aims Community College’s Flight Training campus at Northern Colorado Regional Airport (KFNL) in Loveland today (Sept. 3). The college offers two-year degrees in professional pilot careers, air traffic control and unmanned aircraft systems and has plans to add a degree program in airframe & powerplant maintenance, with classes set […]

AOPA is reporting that the owner of a flight school that went bankrupt while allegedly holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in student deposits has struck a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. Kevin Rylchik is facing a prison term but by pleading guilty he avoided indictment on a laundry list […]

A flight school operating at Virginia’s Manassas Regional Airport/ Harry P. Davis Field abruptly shut down on Aug. 1, leaving several of its students stranded.   Students from American Aviation Flight School, including Thida Aung, reached out to local news station FOX 5 seeking help. According to FOX 5 Aung had paid the flight school […]

Flight Schedule Pro, a major provider of flight school management software, will introduce its new Next Gen suite on August 13. The platform aims to advance flight school operations with features such as smart scheduling, enhanced tracking of student graduation progress, and automated billing. Flight Schedule Pro says a key priority for the company is […]

At least 100 students enrolled in a South Florida flight school find themselves in a state of uncertainty after the owner of their flight school died in a plane crash, prompting the abrupt shutdown of operations. The academy’s owner, Alfredo Diez, and his wife, who managed the operations, died in a March plane crash in […]