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unusual facts about flight school



Bardufoss Airport

The Norwegian Aviation College college was established at Bardufoss Airport in 1992 as the world's northern-most flight school.

Nancy Lynn

Lynn owned and operated Lynn Aviation, an aerobatic flight school located at the Bay Bridge Airport in Stevensville, Maryland with her husband Scott Muntean and son Pete.


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A Guy Named Joe

He is to be sent back to Earth, where a year has elapsed, to pass on his experience and knowledge to dilettante Ted Randall (Van Johnson), first in flight school, then as a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter pilot in the south Pacific.

Aerosim Flight Academy

The flight school began as Comair Aviation Academy, established by Comair.

Akram Monfared Arya

Later on in 1989 and while living in Sweden, she took flying lessons along with theory lessons at Bromma Flight-School, (Bromma Flygskola), in Stockholm and received her Swedish license.

Arthur L. Welsh

Called back to Dayton, he was asked to help establish the company's flight school at Huffman Prairie.

Aukai Collins

He also claimed that he warned the bureau (FBI) long before 9/11 that Hani Hanjour, one of the September 11th hijackers, was using a Phoenix flight school as his training ground for terrorism.

Aurel Vlaicu Flight School

The Aurel Vlaicu Flight School is the Romanian Air Force Application School based at Boboc, formed in 1997.

Chikuhei Nakajima

After attending the Naval Staff College in 1912, he was sent for further studies to the United States, where he became the 3rd Japanese to receive a pilot’s license upon graduation from a flight school established by Glenn Curtiss.

Minnesota Golden Gophers football under George Hauser

The Gophers hosted the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight school at the University of Iowa.

Pem-Air

After 31 years in 2001 the company ended its route between Pembroke, Ontario and Toronto Pearson International Airport, after failing to reach an agreement with Atomic Energy of Canada (that was response for two-thirds of its business) the commercial airline service was discontinued to refocus on its flight school an aviation service operated jointly in partnership with Algonquin College.

Symphony Aircraft Industries

The aircraft were to have been given a new name and be available in a VFR version intended for flight school use, a basic IFR version and a glass cockpit equipped version powered by a 200-hp Lycoming IO-390 powerplant giving it a forecast cruise speed of 148 knots.

Tachiarai, Fukuoka

Tachiarai was home to an Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Base, established in 1919 and the Tachiarai Army Flight School, established in 1940, before American bombers destroyed them in 1945.

Tom Herrion

He also worked as a collegiate player development consultant at the Nike All-American Camp and Michael Jordan Flight School before becoming the assistant head coach at Pittsburgh.

Vladimir Sharpatov

After he completed the third year of studies at KAI, he entered the Krasny Kut civil aviation flight school.