{"id":12965,"date":"2023-12-08T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T04:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12965"},"modified":"2023-12-08T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T04:26:04","slug":"atp-flight-school-accelerates-growth-with-purchase-of-40-additional-cessna-skyhawk-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12965","title":{"rendered":"ATP Flight School accelerates growth with purchase of 40 additional Cessna Skyhawk aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bw-dateline-wrapper\">Wichita, Kansas, Business Wire &#8211; <\/span>Textron Aviation <strong>(NYSE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/equities\/textron-inc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TXT<\/a>)<\/strong> today announced an agreement with ATP Flight School for the purchase of an additional 40 Cessna Skyhawk aircraft to be delivered beginning in 2026. This addition to ATP&#8217;s existing fleet of nearly 225 Skyhawks, deployed across more than 85 training centers nationwide, will provide students with access to a modern and advanced fleet in support of their pilot career aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>This agreement marks the fourth fleet purchase, amounting to a total of 135 of Cessna Skyhawks, for ATP&#8217;s Airline Career Pilot Program in just over a year, as the flight school scales to train 20,000 airline pilots by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The Cessna Skyhawk is renowned as the go-to training aircraft in the industry. Its steady flight dynamics, cutting-edge avionics and reliable dispatch history have made it ATP&#8217;s trusted training platform for the past three decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wichita, Kansas, Business Wire &#8211; Textron Aviation (NYSE: TXT) today announced an agreement with ATP Flight School for the purchase of an additional 40 Cessna Skyhawk aircraft to be delivered beginning in 2026. This addition to ATP&#8217;s existing fleet of nearly 225 Skyhawks, deployed across more than 85 training centers nationwide, will provide students with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,8637,797,4813,89,5804,5637,13618,8222,10339,5992,5670,2203,5676,8651,13831,10169,13469,8946,10176,1397,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-cargo-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-news","category-pilot","category-private-aircraft-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}