Why Winnipeg Aviation?
Winnipeg Aviation has been a leader in the flight training community for over 35 years.  We value flight safety and professionalism above all else. We believe in demanding the most from our students because flying can be, on occasion, a particularly demanding endeavour – and because you demand the most for your training dollar.

We are not the largest school in Canada, so we haven’t lost our sense of making our students our friends. You will not be a nameless face, a numbered person to be thrown into a high volume “pilot production line”. If you believe that bigger is better just remember this. At the end of the day it all comes down to two people- you and your instructor in a rather confined area. Wouldn’t you rather fly with a friend?  Someone who knows what you do and who you are rather than someone who only knows you as the next body in the time slot? At Winnipeg Aviation we choose our instructors as much for their friendly personalities as for their superior flying skills. Great personalities-the one thing we can’t teach.

Being in the middle of North America, Mother Nature has seen fit to ensure that Winnipeg Aviation’s pilot training students and time building pilots can get more hours of sunshine than anywhere else in southern Canada. With over 85% visual flying weather year round, you are assured to complete your pilot training at our Canadian flight school as soon as possible.

However, we are not fair weather flyers; we will challenge our students to fly in all types of weather; good and bad, rain or snow- because that is real world flying! You will want to maximize your training time and experience, you won’t want to spend it on the ground waiting for perfect weather- and we won’t let you either.

We will give you more real life flight experiences than most flight schools in Canada can even hope to offer.  You will train out of an airport specifically designed for flight training. St. Andrews airport offers 3 runways to maximize your training with and with out cross winds. It has a control tower (with student friendly controllers) to give you the valuable experience needed to work and communicate within the Air Traffic control system.  We will take you into Winnipeg International airport to get first hand experience mixing it up with “the big boys”.  We will take you to small, short, uncontrolled grass strips to learn special procedures, hone your skills and if you’ve been really good, treat you to a delicious ice cream at a not so secret village landing field.

Our fleet consists of 2 Cessna 152’s, 4 Piper Cherokee’s, 1 Piper Warrior, 1 Piper Arrow, 1 Cessna 172 , 1  Cessna C172 w/180 hp. on floats and a Transport Canada approved flight simulator.

We offer comprehensive personalized training covering the complete range of courses: the Recreational, Private, Commercial Pilot licences, as well as Seaplane, Night Endorsement, Instrument Rating, and Instructor’s Rating.

Our Flight Training Programs are geared to your personal schedule, which means you decide when and how often you want to fly according to your availability. We are open 7 day a week. If you choose to fly on a full time basis (4-5 days a week), the Private License can be completed in 4-6 weeks. The Commercial License in 10-12 weeks.

 Winnipeg Aviation is a privately owned flight training center located just 15 kilometres north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at St. Andrews Airport.

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