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FTN 2025 Where to Apply Guide
Feb10

FTN 2025 Where to Apply Guide

FTN’s 2025 Where to Apply Guide is now out, featuring all the flying scholarships, sponsorships and bursaries on offer in the UK this year. All the courses and opportunities listed in FTN’s 2025 Where to Apply Guide (WTAG) offer some form of financial assistance to aspiring pilots or aviation professionals. There are subtle differences between the different types of scholarships, sponsorships and bursaries that are on offer....

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PFT opens new training facility at Thruxton
Feb10

PFT opens new training facility at Thruxton

London Oxford Airport headquartered Pilot Flight Training (PFT) has opened a new training facility at Thruxton Airport in Hampshire. The new facility marks the school’s first move to the southwest, which has been operating out of Oxford Airport for more than 25 years, and is the initial stage in the company’s strategic growth plans to provide enhanced flight training services to aspiring pilots and aviators in the southwest region....

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Air League flying & gliding scholarships 2025
Jan20

Air League flying & gliding scholarships 2025

UK aviation charity the Air League is opening three of its six scholarship programmes next week. Opening on 27 January 2025, the Air League will be inviting applications for its flying, gliding and electric flying scholarships. Additional scholarships in the fields of engineering, drone flying and ATPL studies are scheduled to open over the coming months. The Air League, founded in 1909, is the UK’s largest provider of independent...

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Leading Edge opts for Elixir
Nov09

Leading Edge opts for Elixir

French planemaker Elixir Aircraft has announced that it has signed a contract for the operation of five Elixir training aircraft by UK ATO Leading Edge Aviation (LEAL). The agreement will see Green Aerolease, a French aircraft rental company, handling the lease of the five aircraft to LEAL, which will compliment its current fleet of 21 training aircraft located at its London Oxford Airport, UK and Alhama, southern Spain training...

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HCAP 2025 scholarships opening soon
Oct21

HCAP 2025 scholarships opening soon

Although yet to be formally announced, applications for the 2025 PPL, gliding and FI scholarships from the Honourable Company of Air Pilots (HCAP) are due to open over the next month or two and FTN would like to put prospective candidates on notice to get prepared ahead of their launch. Each year, HCAP provides a number of scholarships for aspiring (and qualified) pilots. In addition to scholarships funded directly by HCAP, during...

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