Why should you complete your pilot training at Academy of Aviation in Farmingdale?
Pilot Training in Farmingdale, Long Island gives the aspiring pilot the unique experience of learning to fly in close proximity to the busiest airspace in the world near JFK and LaGuardia Airports, in addition to mountain, forest and beach areas of Long Island, upstate New York and the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas.
We welcome and teach both career airline and private recreational flight students.
This campus offers ACCSC Accredited and non-accredited courses.
Republic Airport (KFRG) in Farmingdale, New York is just minutes away
from JFK International and Spadaro Airports. Between these two airports, you will have the
experience and competence to travel anywhere in the World. Your flight training here will
make you capable of (and comfortable with) flying into complex controlled airspace like JFK,
and show you what it is like to be landing at an airport where you are the sole arrival and
departure of the day. We have 11,000 foot runways and grass strips for you to jumpstart your
flight training.
Also, just minutes to the north, we have mountains and many different types of terrain for
you to familiarize yourself with- an integral factor in your comfort level at the controls
of an aircraft is knowledge and recognition of your surroundings. We feel this locale is
absolutely perfect for everyone- from first time flyers to long time pros.