[1] The school's curriculum later expanded to include ab-initio (from the beginning) training, as well as other courses for private, multiengine, instrument, commercial, and CFI ratings.
[4] HPA offered initial type rating and recurrent training to airline, corporate, military, government, and individual aircrew for all models of the Boeing B-727, B-737, B-757, B-767, C-9, MD-80, and Airbus A320.
[5] In May 2021, ATP reported that, every month, its then-61 locations provided more than 24,500 hours of flight training, and graduated over 117 commercial multi-engine pilots with CFIs.
[2] ATP Flight School has 81 (as of April 6, 2023) locations throughout the United States[8] Facilities can be found in Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, and other cities.
[2] In October 2021, ATP Flight School opened a new training center at Arlington Municipal Airport (KGKY), just outside of Dallas, Texas.
[14] In July 2023, ATP Flight School added a new airline pilot training center at Brackett Field (KPOC) in La Verne, California.
[1] Over 1% of all general aviation flight operations in the United States is conducted by ATP, which flies over 38,700 hours per month, resulting in students' earning 8,344 certificates annually (as of March, 2022).
ATP alumni who enroll at the university can count their flight training experience as degree credit and receive a tuition discount on certain programs.
[22] ATP Flight School has the largest multi-engine training fleet in the world,[23] consisting exclusively of Piper Seminoles, with the exception of one Cessna CE-525 CitationJet.
[28] In October 2022, ATP announced an agreement to purchase 55 Cessna Skyhawks from Textron Aviation, with deliveries beginning at the end of 2023 through 2024.
[36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Under these alliances, a limited number of top graduates from ATP's professional pilot program can be interviewed for entry-level positions.
[48] Finally, students log four hours of training in ATP's fundamentals of operating Flight Management Systems (FMSs).
Under the program, flight instructors at the school are provided a path to a pilot career with American Airlines, as well as financial assistance and health benefits.
[52] This program includes training at an ATP campus, a stipend, and a guaranteed position as a Frontier Airlines first officer after meeting all requirements.
[54] Under the program, accepted students receive financial assistance in exchange for a commitment to fly with the airline after acquiring the requisite 1,500 flight hours.
[41] Under the company's agreement with Republic Airways, students can interview for a job during the instrument phase of training and receive conditional offers of employment.
Students accepted to the program complete a two-year advanced training curriculum and are hired to pilot one of Spirit's Airbus A320s.
[55][56] This program was announced in July 2021 as a “direct pathway” for ATP graduates to join Sun Country Airlines as Boeing 737 first officers.
[59] They can receive a conditional job offer to fly as first officers on Beechcraft King Air 350, Cessna Citation CJ3, or Beechjet 400 aircraft.
[59] On December 6, 2008, a Cessna 172 operated by ATP Flight School was involved in a midair collision with another training aircraft, a twin-engine Piper PA-44.
[60] On March 24, 2014, a twin-engine Piper PA-44 owned by ATP Flight School crashed near Brunswick Georgia after a suspected break-up of the airframe in IFR conditions.
[62][63] On June 9, 2018, a plane flown by an ATP instructor and student pilot was on an approach to landing when it experienced bad weather and crashed into a retention pond in Daytona Beach, Florida.
[66] On January 7, 2024, an ATP aircraft, a Piper PA-44-180 Seminole, sustained substantial damage at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas.
After more than 1 hour of flying the pilot entered a steep descent before fatally crashing in a field nine miles northeast of Telephone, TX.