Turki bin Muqrin Al Saud ( ar, تركي بن مقرن بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود; born 1973) is a pilot, businessman, the

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Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy (RWAA) is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's first aviation academy. History Aside from being the first aviation academy in the Kingdom, the academy is a modern flight training school. The CEO and founder, Turki bin ...

(RWAA), and a member of the

House of Saud The House of Saud ( ar, آل سُعُود, ʾĀl Suʿūd ) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. It is composed of the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Emirate of Diriyah, known as the First Saudi state (1727–1818), and ...

. He also is the president of the Saudi Air Sports Federation.

Early life

Prince Turki was born in 1973.Family Directory
''Data Arabia''. Prince Turki is the son of former

Crown Prince A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The female form of the title is crown princess, which may refer either to an heiress apparent or, especially in earlier times, to the wif ...

Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, مقرن بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, Muqrin ibn ‘Abd al ‘Azīz Āl Su‘ūd; born 15 September 1945)Lacey gives his birth year as 1943. is a Saudi Arabian politician, businessman, and former milit ...

, nephew of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and one of

King Abdulaziz Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...

's grandsons. He is a brother of

Mansour bin Muqrin Mansour bin Muqrin Al Saud (1974 – 5 November 2017) ( ar, منصور بن مقرن بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) was a Saudi businessman, member of the House of Saud, and advisor at the Court of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. In ...

and Fahd bin Muqrin.

Career

In a ''

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'' interview, Prince Turki gave the synopsis, "I have been flying since 1991 and started with

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

s in the UK. When I moved back to Saudi Arabia, I learned from many people that it is much easier to fly

fixed wing A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using wings that generate lift caused by the aircraft's forward airspeed and the shape of the wings. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinc ...

here than helicopters, so I went to study fixed wing flying and got my licence. I now hold the US

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(FAA) licence. Since I started flying in Saudi Arabia, I met many pilots and other people who would love to fly here, so I decided to start a

flying school Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills. Flight training can be conducted under a str ...

about two years ago." Prince Turki is "a licensed helicopter and fixed wing pilot," and a board member of the

Saudi Aviation Club The Saudi Aviation Club (SAC) is official aviation club of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. History "The Saudi Aviation Club (SAC) was established by resolution 217 of the council of ministers on 4 December 2000 as an independent nonprofit entity ...

. Prince Turki is a founding shareholder of the

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, holding 2% of the company. Prince Turki founded and owns a real-estate company in Turkey. Before RWAA, Prince Turki established aviation schools in the

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and

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. He is also one of the main shareholders of RWAA. On 27 May 2012, the Royal Jordanian Air Academy (RJAA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy "to develop cooperation between the two academies and share experiences in the fields of aviation and aircraft maintenance." The MoU was signed by Turki bin Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz, and Director General of RJAA Captain Mohammed Khawaldeh. Prince Turki is chairman of the Saudi Development and Training Company.

References

External links

Welcome at Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy!
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Turki Chagatai (چغتای, ''Čaġatāy''), also known as ''Turki'', Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (''Čaġatāy türkīsi''), is an extinct Turkic literary language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia and remained the shared literar ...

1973 births Living people

Helicopter pilots