Oxford Aviation Academy
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Oxford Aviation Academy is an aviation training organisation. It includes the former Oxford Aviation Training - a commercial pilot training school based at Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom and Phoenix Goodyear Airport in the United States; the former SAS Flight Academy, the former GECAT and the former BAE Systems Woodford, UK Training Centre, all of which are majority owned by STAR Capital Partners of London with a minority stake of less than 20% retained by General Electric Commercial Aviation Services
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[edit] Oxford Aviation Training History
Oxford Flying Club was officially opened by the Mayor of Oxford in 1939. However, restrictions placed on civil aviation during World War II curtailed its activities and the airfield operated as RAF Kidlington for the duration of hostilities. The club reopened in 1947, renamed as the Oxford Aeroplane Club. During the 1950s it gradually increased its fleet and, by 1960, had become a flying school geared to the training of professional pilots.
In 1961, the flying school's parent company, Oxford Aviation, merged with the Pressed Steel Company to become British Executive Air Services Ltd. (BEAS). Dedicated ground school buildings and student residential accommodation were provided on site, 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. Since then, over twenty thousand trained commercial pilots and aircraft engineers have graduated from the school. The school changed its name to Oxford Aviation Training (OAT) in the 1990s.
On the 19th of June 2007, OAT's parent company BBA Group sold OAT to GCAT Flight Academy (formerly General Electric Commercial Aviation Training, part of General Electric and SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System) for $63 million (£32 million). The deal was backed by GCAT Flight Academy's majority shareholder, STAR Capital Partners an independent venture capital fund.
On the 1st of February 2008, OAT was re-branded as Oxford Aviation Academy. The new Oxford Aviation Academy website was launched on 4 February 2008: http://www.oaa.com
[edit] OAA 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 organisation. The integrated course consists of 216 hours of flight training and 760 hours of ATPL theoretical knowledge training and lasts approximately 18 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.
[edit] Fleet
| Aircraft | Fleet | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Piper PA-28 Warrior | 28 | Phoenix |
| Piper PA-34 Seneca | 22 | Phoenix & Oxford |
| Socata TB20 Trinidad | 2 | Oxford |
| Zlin 242L | 1 | Oxford |
| Simulator | Fleet | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320 | - | London, Stockholm & Hong Kong |
| Airbus A330/A340 | - | London, Stockholm & Hong Kong |
| BAe ATP | - | Manchester |
| BAe 146 | - | Manchester |
| BAe Jetstream 32 | - | Manchester |
| Bell 212/412 | - | Stockholm |
| Boeing 737-300/400/500 | - | Oxford, London, Riga, Stockholm, Oslo |
| Boeing 737NG | - | London, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Hong Kong |
| Boeing 747 | - | Buenos Aires, London |
| Boeing 757/767 | - | London, Stockholm |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-80 | - | Stockholm, Copenhagen |
| McDonnell Douglas DC-10 | - | London |
| Bombardier CRJ-200 | - | Oxford |
| Bombardier Dash 8-200/300/400 | - | Stockholm, Oslo |
| Embraer 170 | - | London |
| Fokker F28 | - | Stockholm |
| Fokker 50 | - | Stockholm |
| Hawker 700 | - | London |
| Piper PA-28 Warrior | - | Oxford |
| Piper PA-34 Seneca | - | Oxford |
| Saab 340 | - | Stockholm |
| Saab 2000 | - | Stockholm |
