ATP Expands School Fleet With Cessna, Piper Aircraft

Flight trainer accepts 54th Cessna 172 Skyhawk delivery of 2025.

Meg Godlewski

Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET

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Travis Tingle

A Cessna Skyhawk delivered to ATP. [Photo: ATP]

Key Takeaways:

ATP Flight School is significantly expanding its aircraft fleet, adding 54 Cessna Skyhawks in 2025, bringing its total to 663 aircraft, with plans to exceed 700 by 2027 through further orders of Skyhawks and Piper Seminoles.
This fleet expansion aims to address the challenge of managing client load and provide airline-bound students with a modern, reliable training fleet featuring advanced avionics.
ATP positions itself as a leading flight school for aspiring airline pilots, emphasizing its commitment to student safety and success through a young, advanced fleet and high training volume, leading to a large number of program graduates.

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One of the challenges of running a flight training business is having enough aircraft to manage the client load.

ATP Flight School continues to increase its fleet, adding Cessna and Piper aircraft to facilitate the training of pilots for careers at airlines. The school has taken delivery of its 54th Cessna Skyhawk for 2025. That brings ATP’s nationwide fleet up to a total of 663 aircraft, of which 327 are Cessnas. School officials added that the school has an order for more than 135 Skyhawks through 2027.

Another 40 Skyhawks are planned for delivery in 2026.

The Cessna Skyhawk has been a staple of the flight training community since the 1960s. The airframes delivered to ATP sport the latest in Garmin G1000 avionics.

ATP will finish up 2025 by taking delivery of seven Piper Seminoles, which are used for multiengine training.

“At scale, ATP has one of the youngest, most advanced training fleets, and the continued investment in new aircraft demonstrates our shared commitment to the safety and success of our students,” said Michael Arnold, vice president of marketing at ATP Flight School. “Providing students with a complete airline career solution, backed by a reliable and trusted fleet of aircraft, is what makes ATP the number one flight school chosen by airlines and airline pilots.”

School officials say ATP’s fleet is on target to surpass 700 aircraft by 2027.

ATP has been in operation for more than 40 years and has locations all over the United States, including new facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Farmingdale, New York; and Oakland, California.

Between early June and this month, ATP’s airline-bound students flew approximately 80,000 flights for a total of 152,000 hours. ATP reports some 588 customers graduated from the airline career pilot program.