Oxford Aviation Training

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Based:	Oxford Airport Phoenix Goodyear Airport
Website:	http://www.oxfordaviation.net

Oxford Aviation Training is a commercial pilot training school based at Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom and Phoenix Goodyear Airport in the United States.

1 History
2 Fleet
3 APP First Officer
4 Airlines connected with OAT
5 Links

[edit] History

Oxford Flying Club was officially opened by the Mayor of Oxford in 1939. However, its life was initially rather short, and as the country prepared for war, restrictions placed on civil flying quickly curtailed its activities. Resurrected in 1947 and renamed the Oxford Aeroplane club, it gradually increased its fleet and reputation and, by 1960, had made the important transition from a club for private pilots to a fully-fledged flying school geared to the training of professional pilots.

As the parent company, Oxford Aviation, expanded, so too did the training offered by the school, and by 1961, when it merged with the Pressed Steel Co to become British Executive Air Services Ltd, Oxford was firmly established as one of the UK’s leading Flight Training Schools. Dedicated ground school buildings and student residential accommodation on site were quickly provided, and the first fully integrated Commercial Pilot’s Licence and Instrument Rating courses began in May 1962.

In 1963, the BEAS Flying Training Division was renamed Oxford Air Training School. Forty two years later, over twenty thousand trained commercial pilots and aircraft engineers have graduated from the School and can be found flying for many of the world’s leading airlines. Despite a change of name to Oxford Aviation Training (OAT) towards the end of the last decade, the quality and reputation of the training remains as high as ever and OAT is still universally recognised as one of the world’s premier Flight Training Organisations.

[edit] Fleet

Oxford Aviation Training has a comprehensive fleet of aircraft and simulators based in the UK and in the USA.

Aircraft	Fleet	Seats	Engine
Piper PA28 Warrior	28	4	Single Piston
Piper PA34 Seneca	22	6	Twin Piston
Socata TB20 Trinidad	2	4	Single Piston
Zlin 242L	1	2	Single Piston

Simulator	Fleet	Engine
Piper PA28 Warrior	5	Single Piston
Piper PA34 Seneca	6	Twin Piston
PC Desktop Trainers	12	Twin Piston
Boeing 737-400	2	Twin Jet
Canadair CRJ-200	1	Twin Jet

[edit] APP First Officer

This is a JAA Approved full-time course of pilot training and is used to train pilots to the level of proficiency necessary to enable them to operate as a Co-Pilot on multi-pilot, multi-engine airliners in commercial air transport. The course is designed for trainees who have little or no previous flying experience and must be completed at one flight training organization. The integrated course consists of 225 hours of flight training and 760 hours of ATPL theoretical knowledge training and lasts approximately 16 months – culminating in the issue of a JAA CPL with Instrument Rating and Multi-Crew Co-operation credit. Following this course, a pilot is now qualified to commence on airliner type specific training.