AERO 2025 opens this week
Europe’s largest General Aviation trade show, AERO 2025, opens tomorrow at Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. Spanning 14 halls, housing 756 exhibitors from 38 countries, the annual show is Europe’s largest GA event, encompassing everything from short-mission drones to globe-trotting business jets. FTN will be roaming the halls over the next couple of days to report on what’s hot in the GA industry today,...
Aerobility recruiting for new FI
UK Aviation charity Aerobility is recruiting for a new Flight Instructor to be based at the organisation’s Blackbushe Airport HQ. Aerobility says there is an element of flexibility as to whether the FI should be able to commit to working full time, part time or on an ad hoc basis, and are willing to be flexible and open in designing a schedule to suit them. Candidates will need to hold a UK CAA FI(A) rating and CPL in order to deliver...
Aerohire expands operations at Halfpenny Green Airport
Aerohire Flight Training has opened a second base at Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport as part of its ongoing expansion plans. The school, which has operated at the West Midlands airport since 2019, has operated out of a portacabin for the last five years, before taking over its second facility last month, providing the school with much needed extra space and room to grow. The new facility comprises briefing rooms, flight planning...
Reach for the Sky funding programme reopens
In one of his first official engagements as the new UK Aviation Minister, Mike Kane MP launched the latest round of funding for the Government’s Reach for the Sky programme at the Farmborough International Air Show on 26 July. The Reach for the Sky skills and outreach programme serves as a way for young people aged 4-18 from under-represented groups that may not otherwise have had the opportunity to pursue a career in aviation, to do...
Premier Flight Training ceases trading
Premier Flight Training have gone out of business after around two decades of operation. The Norwich airport-based flying school was set-up in 2002 and had been based at Norwich airport for over two decades. Starting out providing training for the Private Pilot Licence (PPL) and associated ratings, Premier Flight Training later went on become a CAA Approved Training Organisation (ATO) offering commercial, instrument rating and Flight...
