ATP Flight School signs up for 40 Cessna Skyhawks with Textron Aviation

ATP Flight School has placed a firm order of 40 Cessna Skyhawk planes with Textron Aviation to be delivered by 2025. The new planes will add to ATP’s existing fleet of nearly 200 Skyhawks, positioned across 82 training centers nationwide. This is the second fleet purchase of Cessna Skyhawks for ATP’s Airline Career Pilot Program in less than a year, as the flight school scales to train 20,000 airline pilots by 2030. In October 2022, ATP and Textron Aviation agreed to the purchase of 55 Cessna Skyhawks, with deliveries starting in the third quarter of 2023. “The Cessna Skyhawk has