ATP Flight School

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ATP Flight School, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest flight training company in the United States. The privately held company was founded in Atlanta, GA by its current management, a small group of airline pilots, in 1984. ATP's initial focus was providing flight training to U.S. military pilots who were seeking their Airline Transport Pilot Certificates to transition over to commercial air carrier operations. Maintaining a focus on professional flight training, ATP later expanded its course offerings to include ab-initio training programs for both domestic and international students, seeking a career in commercial aviation. Today, ATP is the leading supplier of professionally trained pilots to the nation's regional airlines.

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Schools

ATP Flight School has 40 (as of May, 2017) locations throughout the United States.

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Training

ATP Flight School solely focuses on airline-oriented flight training, operating their programs with a fixed-cost, fixed timeframe training model, with an emphasis on multi-engine flight experience. ATP offers training programs for most all fixed-wing FAA pilot certificates and ratings. Other programs offered include type ratings, aircraft dispatcher certification, and the Airline Transport Pilot Certification Training Program (ATP CTP).

ATP is partnered with Arizona State University, and is the flight provider for its Professional Flight bachelor's degree program, based out of the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport facility. Aircraft used for the contract are painted in a special livery featuring the ASU logo and pitchfork.

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Fleet

ATP Flight School has the largest multi-engine training fleet in the world, consisting exclusively of Piper Seminoles, with the exception of one Cessna CE-525 CitationJet. A mix of Diamond DA40-180 Diamond Stars, Cessna CE-172 Skyhawks, and Piper Archers make up their single-engine fleet, the majority going to the latter.

Piper Aircraft Inc. and ATP jointly made an announcement at the 2011 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and Convention for the sale of 30 new Piper Seminoles - a total retail value of $18 million. All of the new airplanes under the agreement are to be equipped with Garmin's G500 glass cockpit avionics suite.

In April, 2013, ATP and Piper Aircraft reached an agreement for the purchase of up to 100 Piper Archers. Initial deliveries began in late 2013, and under the agreement, all aircraft are standardized with the Garmin G500 avionics suite.

As of May, 2017, ATP Flight School had a fleet of 298 aircraft, consisting of the following:

• 112 Cessna CE-172 Skyhawks
• 1 Cessna CE-525 CitationJet
• 1 Cessna CJ3 CitationJet
• 5 Diamond DA40-180 Diamond Stars
• 79 Piper Archer TXs
• 100 Piper Seminoles

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Airline Relationships

ATP Flight School has hiring relationships with 21 U.S. based regional airlines, including ExpressJet, SkyWest Airlines, Mesa Airlines, and PSA Airlines. These relationships and alliances are based on letters of understanding, or letters of agreement. While these letters vary between air carriers, in general they bestow either reduced hiring minimums for graduates of ATP or airline tuition reimbursement.

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Accidents and Incidents

On December 6, 2008, a twin-engine Piper PA-44 owned by ATP Flight School experienced a mid-air collision in the Everglades. The plane was flown by an ATP instructor and student pilot. The other plane involved was a Cessna 172R owned by Pelican Flight Training, also with two passengers, an instructor and student. There were no survivors. On March 24, 2014, the flight school lost another Piper PA-44, this one in Brunswick, Georgia and also with two fatalities. The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation reported that the wreckage was consistent with an in-flight breakup of the airframe. On June 9, 2018, a small plane flown by an ATP Flight School instructor, hit two homes and landed in a retention pond in Daytona Beach, Florida. An ATP student pilot was also in the plane.

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References

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External links

• Official Site

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