PATTS College of Aeronautics

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PATTS College of Aeronautics
Established:	1969
Type:	Private
President:	Ma. Felisa S. Valdez
Location:	Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Website:	patts.edu.ph

PATTS College of Aeronautics which is also known as the Philippine Air Transport & Training Services is an aeronautical college founded in 1969 and currently located in Parañaque City, Philippines.

Founded as a joint enterprise of Filipino and American pioneers in aviation, the Philippine Air Transport and Training Services (PATTS) started operations in 1969.

Its primary aim was to establish a manufacturing and assembly plant for trainer aircraft, which at the time of its founding was a new and pioneering objective as envisioned by its five founding directors. Its secondary aim was to put up an Aeronautical School to meet the domestic and international demands in the fields of aviation and air transportation industry.

[edit] Courses offered

• Aeronautical Engineering (BSAE)
• Air Transportation (BSAT)
• Aircraft Maintenance Technology (BSAMT)
• Avionics Technology (BSAvTech)
• Airline Office Administration
• Airline Business Administration (BSABA)
• Tourism Management(BST)
• Hotel & Restaurant Management (BSHRM)
• Aircraft Technician Course (ATC)

Vision:

To become the CENTRE of EXCELLENCE in Aviation Education. In order to attain this vision, PATTS College has strengthened its faculty thru its competency-based training, including research and development programs, streamlined its curricula to be responsive and relevant to the needs of the industry and has painstakingly invested in a new campus that would offer the best in facilities.

Mission:

To provide quality but affordable Aviation Education and to assist our graduates in the labor market. In order to achieve its mission, PATTS College employs experienced instructors and practitioners from the industry and has intensified its academe – industry linkages, maintained its comparatively low tuition charges and broadened its On-the-Job-Training and Placement Program. 

History

PATTS College of Aeronautics is reputedly the country’s Number One Aeronautical College today. It was founded in 1969 then known as the Philippine Air Transport and Training Services a joint venture of Filipino and American pioneers in aviation. The primary aim was to establish a manufacturing and assembly plant for training aircraft. The secondary aim was to put up an aeronautical school to meet the needs of the air transportation industry, domestic or international.

The unfavorable investment climate then prevailing at that time constrained the founders to drop the first objective and proceed to the second which is to organize and operate an aeronautical school intended to provide the best professional and technical training to its clients. Thus the PATTS School of Aeronautics was conformably born. The school started with the One –Year Airframe Mechanic, Two-Year Airframe Mechanic, One year Power Plant Mechanic and the Two-Year Power Plant Mechanic Courses. In its second year of operation the Communication Technician Course (Avionics) and the fouryear Aeronautical Engineering Course were added.

PATTS in line with times

Under the excellent stewardship of the Board of Directors, the school rose to higher levels of credit and standard when its BS Aeronautical Engineering graduates continuously topped the PRC’s Licensure Board Examination for Aeronautical Engineers since its inception in 1983 . Thus the tradition of excellence continued. Indeed, successful school operation had its fruits. In 1989, the school attained college status. PATTS School metamorphosed into a bigger educational institution known as PATTS College of Aeronautics, adapting as its slogan “ Fly high, your future is in the skies”. 

 

In 2005, the greatest transformation coincided with PATTS 36th Foundation Anniversary. This refers to the transfer of PATTS College of Aeronautics from its old site at Domestic Airport Road, Pasay City to its new home at Lombos Avenue, San Isidro, Parañaque City. Its four-story edifice equipped with modern facilities conducive to learning, now sits on a spacious campus with the ambiance of an ideal educational institution. Success after success inspired the Board of Directors to aim even higher in perpetuation of the priceless legacy left to it by the late Atty. & Engr. Ambrosio R. Valdez Sr., PATTS Founder and First President and Chairman of the Board. Anent to the 36th Anniversary theme which is, “To Infinity and Beyond”, Management’s new diversification policy was conceived. PATTS will now offer non-aviation related programs responsive to industry needs, starting with B.S. Hotel and Restaurant Management effective school year 2005 – 2006. Feasibility studies are being conducted to determine what other curricular offerings are viable. Graduate Studies is also a possibility, preparatory to university status. This is PATTS today.

The College Seal

Emblazoned in the middle of the PATTS corporate crest or college emblem is a figure that elicit more than a passing interest from people. The image is etched clearly and faultlessly-it is a seahorse. To this figure, questions abound. What has a seahorse to do with an aeronautical institution, and a creature seemingly in flight, so to speak? The answer is in a founders dream of PATTS that is now translated into a legend of what hardwork, dedicated instructors and visionary management can do to create a workforce now numbering more than 20,000 and growing, all with cutting edge knowledge in technology that has brought them to success all over the world. The seahorse has wings but cannot fly. Students who enroll at PATTS may have the potential wings but cannot use them. Here they are trained to harness the potential and when they graduate they are winged to fly and search for their future in the skies. Like Martin Luther King, PATTS founder Atty. & Engr. Ambrosio R. Valdez, Sr. had a vision of the future premised on achievement. “If we can make a seahorse fly, there is no reason why we cannot make anyone or anything else fly”.