Tayside Aviation is a flight training and aircraft service company based at

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. Tayside Aviation was established in 1968 with one aircraft at Riverside Airstrip in Dundee, built on land reclaimed from the

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. The Riverside Airstrip evolved into the current Dundee Airport. Since then it has grown to a company that operates over 15 aircraft over two sites at Dundee and

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. The company is the largest light aircraft training organisation in Scotland and operates an aircraft engineering facility at Dundee Airport. The company offers both private and commercial pilot training, and is the sole contractor to the

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to provide cadets with Light Aircraft Flying Scholarships to achieve solo standard. The Hong Kong region of GAPAN contract their PPL scholarships to Tayside Aviation. Tayside Aviation has four nominated charities that it supports regularly. In 2015, Tayside Aviation launched the BSc (Hons) Professional Aviation Pilot Practice Degree. In association with

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, Aviation Skills Partnership and

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. The Degree will be incorporated with the standard ATPL syllabus. Currently, four courses are enrolled on the programme with a total of 24 students. October 2016 will see another course enroll. Graduates are expected to move onto aircraft such as the

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after pilot training or, after a period as a Flight Instructor at Tayside.

Fleet

Tayside Aviation's fleet includes the following aircraft:

References

About Us
Tayside Aviation. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.

External links

Tayside Aviation websiteBsc Professional Aviation Pilot Practice DegreeRAF Cadet Contract With Tayside Aviation

Aviation Skills PartnershipLoganair
Aviation in Scotland Aviation schools in the United Kingdom British companies established in 1968 Organisations based in Dundee Transport in Dundee 1968 establishments in Scotland {{Dundee-stub