Aviation is a highly skilled and professional industry. It is also an expanding industry, providing constant challenges and requiring of its pilots, the best possible training and qualifications.

The International Aviation Academy of New Zealand is the only dedicated full time professional flight organization of its type operating from a major international airport.

The Academy is also the largest New Zealand owned operation of its kind in New Zealand; however care is taken to give individual and personal attention to each one of our students. Our professional flight instructors have proven their abilities to be flight examiners for the Civil Aviation Authority and Aviation Services Ltd.

Career opportunities stretch internationally for holders of New Zealand professional pilot licences. Academy
pilots train in an environment of varied weather patterns and terrain known to aviation employers all over the world. Our Academy trained pilots are working in European Countries, United States of America, India, the Gulf States, Indonesia, Asia, Africa as well as New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.

Between the Academy and its parent organisation, the Canterbury Aero Club, flight training has been our business since 1928. While aviation in the 21st Century is a vastly different industry from those early days, the years of experience and continuity within our flight training organisation are invaluable to our students and recognized by employers.

Academy students have the advantage of access to a large aircraft fleet of 27 aircraft, comprising of basic trainers to multi engine instrument equipped aircraft including 5 glass cockpit equipped aircraft. Currently the Academy’s training fleet consists of the following aircraft types: