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Global Flight Training Group Skyborne Airline’s US Campus Hires Flight Instructors as it Doubles Student Numbers to 350

Skyborne Airline Academy’s campus at Vero Beach Regional Airport, Florida, United States held a “Hiring Day” on October 14, 2023 to attract certified flight instructors, aircraft mechanics, and flight dispatchers, with a particular focus on recruiting more flight instructors. The academy has experienced significant growth in the last six months, with its enrollment more than doubling from 140 students in April to 350 presently with another 100 on a waiting list. Due to this increased demand, Skyborne is actively seeking new instructors to maintain its 4-to-1 student-to-instructor ratio.

The academy is especially eager to hire flight instructors and plans to conduct monthly hiring events to accommodate additional students joining next year, its Managing Director Dan Peterson told local media in an interview. As of now, the Vero Beach campus has 60 instructors, but the goal is to have at least 80 to meet current and anticipated student enrollments.

“In a perfect world, I would hire 10 flight instructors each month for the next four months.” shared Mr Peterson.

In addition to flight instructors, Skyborne is also looking to hire aircraft maintenance technicians who possess FAA-issued Airframe and Powerplant certificates. The academy’s fleet consists of 53 training aircraft, with plans to increase this number to 60 by year-end.

Source: Local Media
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Spanish Flight School, FlyBy, More than Doubles Fleet Size from 2019 as it takes Delivery of 4 New Brand New Aircraft

Burgos, Spain headquartered flight training organisation FlyBy, announced it has taken delivery of four brand new Tecnam Aircraft P2008 which increased its total aircraft in fleet to 27. In 2019, FlyBy had 11 aircraft operating, one of which was under long-term maintenance. About four years later, the flight school more than doubled its fleet. The aircraft were flown from the Tecnam factory in Capua, Italy to FlyBy’s headquarters at Burgos Airport.

Source: FlyBy
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Global Flight Training Group Airways Aviation to Start New Base in Italy with 5 Diamond Aircraft

Following its recent signing of a concession contract for the facilities at COMISO Airport, Sicily, Italy, international pilot training group Airways Aviation through its COO and CCO Alexandre Alves shared that the new campus in will start with five (5) Diamond DA 40 but “will host potentially the largest fleet of the group”.

Airways Aviation Group operates one of the largest fleets of privately owned Diamond Aircraft training aircraft worldwide including Europe’s largest fleet of Diamond DA42 and DA40 aircraft. It operates flight training bases across France, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon and Australia with additional ground schools in Africa, India and China.

Source: Airways Aviation Group
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