Overview
- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued the Certificate of Approval on Friday, October 30, 2026, and Air India and MADC say the site is about 95% complete with remaining formalities to finish.
- The academy arrives with 34 trainer aircraft on site: 31 single-engine Piper Archers and three twin-engine Diamond trainers fitted with Garmin G1000 NXi glass cockpits and ADS-B capability.
- The training programme is an 18-month Commercial Pilot Licence course requiring 200 flying hours split as 185 single-engine hours and 15 multi-engine hours and will keep a planned trainee-to-instructor ratio of six to one.
- The 10-acre campus includes three flight simulators, student hostels, digitally enabled classrooms, a digital operations centre and a dedicated maintenance hangar, and Amravati’s favorable weather offers more than 300 potential flying days a year.
- Developed jointly by the Maharashtra Airport Development Company and Air India, the academy is billed as India’s first airline-owned flying training organisation and will complement Air India’s large Gurugram training centre while expanding domestic pilot capacity and reducing reliance on overseas flight schools.