ATP Flight School, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest flight training company in the United States. The privately held company was founded in Atlanta, GA by its current management, a small group of airline pilots, in 1984. ATP's initial focus was providing flight training to U.S. military pilots who were seeking their Airline Transport Pilot Certificates to transition over to commercial air carrier operations. Maintaining a focus on professional flight training, ATP later expanded its course offerings to include ab-initio training programs for both domestic and international students, seeking a career in commercial aviation. Today, ATP is the leading supplier of professionally trained pilots to the nation's regional airlines.
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Schools
ATP Flight School has 40 (as of May, 2017) locations throughout the United States.
- Atlanta (FFC - Atlanta Regional Airport)
- Atlanta (PDK - Peachtree Dekalb Airport)
- Atlanta (LZU - Gwinnett County Airport, Briscoe Field)
- Austin (GTU - Georgetown Municipal Airport)
- Bowling Green (BWG - Warren County Airport)
- Charlotte (JQF - Concord Regional Airport)
- Chicago (DPA - Dupage Airport)
- Dallas - Addison (ADS - Addison)
- Dallas - Arlington (GKY - Arlington Municipal Airport)
- Dallas - ATP Jet Simulation (Near DFW)
- Dallas - McKinney (TKI - McKinney National Airport)
- Daytona Beach (DAB - Daytona Beach International Airport)
- Denver (APA - Centennial Airport)
- Ft. Lauderdale (FXE - Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport)
- Houston (DWH - Hooks Airport)
- Houston (AXH - Houston Southwest Airport)
- Jacksonville (CRG - Craig Airport)
- Las Vegas (VGT - North Las Vegas Airport)
- Long Beach (LGB - Long Beach/Daugherty Field)
- Long Island (ISP - MacArthur Airport)
- Louisville (JVY - Clark Regional Airport)
- Morristown (MMU - Morristown Municipal Airport)
- Nashville (MQY - Smyrna Airport)
- Naples (APF - Naples Municipal Airport)
- Oakland (LVK - Livermore Municipal Airport)
- Ogden (OGD - Ogden-Hinckley Airport)
- Phoenix (IWA - Phoenix Gateway Airport)
- Portland (HIO - Hillsboro Airport)
- Raleigh-Durham (RDU - Raleigh-Durham International Airport)
- Richmond (RIC - Richmond International Airport)
- Riverside (RAL - Riverside Airport)
- Sacramento (SAC - Sacramento Executive Airport)
- San Diego (CRQ - McClellan-Palomar Airport)
- San Diego (MYF - Montgomery Field)
- Seattle (PAE - Paine Field)
- Scottsdale (SDL - Scottsdale Airport)
- Tampa (PIE - St Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport)
- Tacoma (TIW - Tacoma Narrows Airport)
- Trenton (TTN - Trenton Mercer County Airport)
- Tulsa (RVS - Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport)
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Training
ATP Flight School solely focuses on airline-oriented flight training, operating their programs with a fixed-cost, fixed timeframe training model, with an emphasis on multi-engine flight experience. ATP offers training programs for most all fixed-wing FAA pilot certificates and ratings. Other programs offered include type ratings, aircraft dispatcher certification, and the Airline Transport Pilot Certification Training Program (ATP CTP).
ATP is partnered with Arizona State University, and is the flight provider for its Professional Flight bachelor's degree program, based out of the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport facility. Aircraft used for the contract are painted in a special livery featuring the ASU logo and pitchfork.
Fleet
ATP Flight School has the largest multi-engine training fleet in the world, consisting exclusively of Piper Seminoles, with the exception of one Cessna CE-525 CitationJet. A mix of Diamond DA40-180 Diamond Stars, Cessna CE-172 Skyhawks, and Piper Archers make up their single-engine fleet, the majority going to the latter.
Piper Aircraft Inc. and ATP jointly made an announcement at the 2011 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and Convention for the sale of 30 new Piper Seminoles - a total retail value of $18 million. All of the new airplanes under the agreement are to be equipped with Garmin's G500 glass cockpit avionics suite.
In April, 2013, ATP and Piper Aircraft reached an agreement for the purchase of up to 100 Piper Archers. Initial deliveries began in late 2013, and under the agreement, all aircraft are standardized with the Garmin G500 avionics suite.
As of May, 2017, ATP Flight School had a fleet of 298 aircraft, consisting of the following:
- 112 Cessna CE-172 Skyhawks
- 1 Cessna CE-525 CitationJet
- 1 Cessna CJ3 CitationJet
- 5 Diamond DA40-180 Diamond Stars
- 79 Piper Archer TXs
- 100 Piper Seminoles
Airline Relationships
ATP Flight School has hiring relationships with 21 U.S. based regional airlines, including ExpressJet, SkyWest Airlines, Mesa Airlines, and PSA Airlines. These relationships and alliances are based on letters of understanding, or letters of agreement. While these letters vary between air carriers, in general they bestow either reduced hiring minimums for graduates of ATP or airline tuition reimbursement.
References
External links
- Official Site
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