An aircraft cockpit at night, instrument panels lit across the width of the frame.

Air Academy

Train the people who sign it off

An airframe is only as good as the person inspecting it, and an airfield is only as safe as the crew running it. Both have to be taught. That is what the Academy is for.

What we teach

We deliver structured training and certification across aviation engineering, maintenance and operations.

Engineering

Drawings, tolerances and the standards structural work is held to. We teach people to read a drawing properly before we ask them to build from one.

Maintenance

Inspection, repair, and the records that prove both were done. The paperwork is not admin here. It is the evidence that the aircraft is airworthy.

Operations

How an airfield and the aircraft on it run, day to day. Ground safety, equipment, and the discipline of working around live movements.

How it runs

We run the Academy the way we run maintenance. A written standard, the work done against it, and a record afterwards that shows it happened.

Classroom

Theory first, from material we write ourselves and keep current as standards change.

Practical

Then the same work with tools in hand, supervised, until it is right rather than until the session ends.

Assessment

We assess against the standard, not against the rest of the group.

Records

Every trainee carries a competency record, kept the way an airworthiness record is kept.

Courses

Course titles, intake dates, duration and fees are set by the Academy and are not published yet. Ask us and we will send the current list.

[Course list, intake dates and fees to be confirmed]

On approvals

Academy training is technical skilling. It is not DGCA approved pilot training, which requires a Flying Training Organisation approval, and it is not licensed aircraft maintenance engineer training, which requires a CAR-147 approval. Where the Academy holds an approval, the number is published here beside the training it covers.

Teach here

The Academy hires instructors out of the trade rather than out of a classroom. If you have done the work, you can teach it.

Technical Training Instructor, 2 vacancies

An aircraft cockpit at night, instrument panels and autothrottle levers lit in the foreground.

Training capacity is the constraint on everything else this company builds.

Training enquiries, partnerships and instructor applications.