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Top 25 Private pilot training companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 115 private pilot training companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,098 professional contacts across them, including 216 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers private pilot training companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest private pilot training companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 293 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skyborne is a global modern airline training academy headquartered at Gloucestershire Airport in the UK, with additional training facilities in Vero Beach, Florida, US and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Leading Edge Aviation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Aeros Flight Training is one of the UK’s most established modular pilot training academies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2007, ACS Aviation offer a range of flight training services at Perth Airport, along with on-site engineering and operation of the entire airfield.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aviation South West offers UK CAA and EASA Commercial Flight Training in the UK and Malta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialist Aviation Training Europe’s leading EASA and UK ATPL distance learning specialist Bristol Groundschool is the leading provider of ATPL theory training materials, trusted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blackbushe Aviation is a flying club and school based out of Blackbushe Airport, Camberley, GU17 9LQ” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Yorkshire Aviation Academy - Yorkshire's premier flight training organisation: Air experience flights, Private pilot training, Instruction & Night Ratings, Differences Training” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Synergy Aviation Group offer Aircraft Charter, Aircraft Management, Flight Training and Aviation Consultancy across the group companies” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Iago Flight Training offers specialist aviation training to both the private individual pilot and to the commercial airlines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Almat Flight Academy has over 25 years experience in training students from complete novice to refresher training for full licence holders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NAC provides elite flight training services to the aviation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bliss Aviation is a flying school located on the South Coast offering training on fixed wing and rotary machines up to PPL level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oysterair was created to deliver specialist one-to-one flight training specifically for pilots who fly High Performance Aeroplanes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Daedalus Aviation offers fixed wing pilot training through our own CAA Flight Training Organisation GBR.DTO-0081.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helicentre Liverpool Ltd is the leading provider of helicopter training services in the North West of the UK, we have been involved in aviation for over 16 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For nearly 30 years we have not only invested in our business to drive it forward, but just as important all the many personnel who have worked side by side with us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We offer all aspects of helicopter pilot training from our base at Gamston Airport in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an approved DTO and ATO flying school based in Hampshire, UK, approved by the UK CAA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Echelon Air is a leading UK-based private aviation service, and the only Cirrus Training Centre in Southern England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advance Helicopters offers the best quality flight instruction for helicopter Pilots Licence (PPL & CPL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a UK based flight training organisation, operating from White Waltham Airfield.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We offer top quality ATPL pilot ground training at 50% of the cost of the large integrated schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Professional flight training LST LPC OPC Freelance flight support” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: private pilot training companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names private pilot training companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private pilot training companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private pilot training companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Private pilot training companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 115 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among private pilot training companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “private pilot training companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names private pilot training companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among private pilot training companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 216 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names private pilot training companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many private pilot training companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 115 private pilot training companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Skyborne, headquartered in Cheltenham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private pilot training companies?
London leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Cheltenham (3) and Christchurch (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 216 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 115 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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