South Africa — Excellentia Airline Academy (EAA) is proud to announce that it has now formally completed the 100% acquisitions of both Aeronav Academy as well as Skyhawk Aviation, combining 2 long established flight training schools under the EAA umbrella, forming the fastest growing flight school in South Africa. The schools are based in both Lanseria and Grand Central (where EAA Head Office is located), giving excellent flexibility for flight training slots.

The South African aviation sector is highly respected in the global arena, and EAA are bringing a larger corporatised approach with proper economies of scale. EAA was founded by passionate aviation entrepreneurs, together with a management and ownership team including experienced aviators with both commercial and military experiences. EAA recognises the huge demand for newly qualified pilots in a post Covid world, and EAA is gearing up to cater for this growth requirement of newly qualified pilots – EAA is targeting to have trained over 6,000 pilots by 2030.

EAA combines the existing fleets of each school (primarily Cessna C-172’s, Pipers and Diamond aircraft currently), and then regularly adding new additional Sling 2 NGT aircraft every month, taking the aircraft training fleet from almost 30 currently to over 100 aircraft within the next 18 months, and 200 within 3 years. The Sling 2 NGT has a modern 100hp Rotax engine, spacious wide-view cockpit and a full suite of modern Garmin avionics. EAA’s trainers are ably supported by state-of-the-art flight simulators, allowing its students to obtain their CPL, and then be qualified to fly commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320/321 families.

Source: Excellentia Airline Academy