Overview
- The Pilot Flight Academy was declared insolvent in January 2026, leaving many trainees without instruction and hundreds of thousands of kroner in prepaid tuition.
- In June the insolvency administrator produced a critical report that said management may have concealed the company’s worsening finances and formally referred the case to police.
- Sixty former students, backed by the union Parat, have filed a civil lawsuit seeking refunds and naming Espen Høiby and former CEO Per Mikael Eriksson as defendants.
- Høiby’s lawyer says there is no legal basis to sue him and that Høiby never held a board post or formally represented the school to students, and the defendants deny wrongdoing.
- About 160 trainee pilots lost places and roughly 40 staff lost jobs, the case threatens lengthy civil proceedings and could lead to a criminal probe if police pursue the administrator’s referral.