Paragon Flight Training said student enrollment is at an all-time high in 2024. [Courtesy: Paragon Flight Training]
Key Takeaways:
Paragon Flight Training is experiencing unprecedented growth, projecting a 60 percent increase in training hours for 2024 and reporting record-high student enrollment with a backlog extending into 2025.
This surge in demand reflects a strong and continued need for commercial pilots, a trend also observed by other flight academies.
To accommodate this growth, Paragon is significantly expanding its resources, including increasing its staff to 50 instructors, growing its fleet with 50 new Piper aircraft by 2027, and enhancing its simulator training offerings.
Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
