It was served with a notice to improve by the Education Funding Agency in August 2016, due to an "apparent loss of financial control".

[2] The school, trading under the former name, Heathrow Aviation Engineering UTC, was inspected by Ofsted in February 2017 and was judged to require improvement in every category.

It has been designed with sustainable features such as solar panels, and carbon emissions are 25 per cent lower than required by building regulation.

[4] The UTC partner university is Brunel University and the founding sponsors included Heathrow Airport, Fujitsu, Peter Brett Associates, Royal Aeronautical Society, Aviation Skills Partnership and John Guest.

[citation needed] The school is also part of the Activate Learning Education Trust.