Pilot training and testing specialist PTT Aviation, owned by UK operator Naljets, has acquired flight training organisations at Newcastle and Durham Tees Valley airports, only a few months after acquiring the training facility at Leeds Bradford airport. It now has a fleet of 30 aircraft and helicopters in the north of England.

Says MD Craig McLeod: “With access to our expanded fleet, unrestricted airspace and a modular training programme that allows students to progress at a rate which suits them, we have something very special to offer.

“The close proximity of each flying school gives us the flexibility and extended resource when it comes to instructor and aircraft allocation as well as providing alternative airfields to fly from in the event of bad weather or visibility, not to mention close ties with the other sites when doing cross country flights.”