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Basic & advanced flight training : Coventry Airport

Learn to fly at Coventry.

Take the controls on your very first lesson. Trial flights, PPL & LAPL training and aircraft hire on a fleet of three Piper Cherokees, flying from the Airpark since 1972.

  • At Coventry Airport since 1972
  • Flight training PPL : LAPL
  • Piper Cherokee fleet PA-28 ×3

Ways to fly

From your first lesson to your licence

No experience needed

Trial flying lessons

30, 45 or 60 minutes of real, hands-on flying with an instructor beside you. Allow around two hours all in: briefing, a look round the aircraft, your flight and a debrief.

from £125

Book a trial lesson

PPL & LAPL training

One-to-one training for the Private Pilot's Licence on our Piper Cherokees, ground school and exam fees included. The LAPL takes a minimum of 32 flying hours; the PPL, 45.

£250 an hour dual, pay as you fly

Talk to an instructor

Aircraft hire

Licence in hand? Hire one of our Cherokees and keep building hours from Coventry: solo hire for qualified pilots.

£195 an hour solo

Ask about hire

PLEASE NOTE: Please check prices before booking due to fluctuating fuel costs. Additional landing fees may be charged for circuit training.

Since 1972

Over fifty years of training pilots at Coventry.

Midland Air Training has been at Coventry Airport since 1972, flying from the Airpark Flight Centre beside the Midland Air Museum. Some things haven't changed: you train one-to-one, you pay for your flying time, and ground school and exam fees are included. Open five days a week from 9am.

Come and meet us
Midland Air Training's three Piper Cherokees lined up outside the Airpark hangar at Coventry Airport
The Cherokee flight line outside the Airpark hangar: Rowley Road, Coventry Airport.

Our company

You have control.

Midland Air Training has flown from Coventry Airport since 1972. It is owned and run by Ron Walker, and approved to train pilots for the LAPL and Private Pilot's Licence.

A few minutes after take-off on your trial lesson, your instructor hands you the aircraft with the three words every pilot remembers: you have control. From that moment on, you are flying it.

Take the controls
The instrument panel and dual controls of a Midland Air Training Piper Cherokee
Dual controls in one of our Piper Cherokees: your hands on the yoke from the first lesson.

Gift vouchers : online checkout, optional add-on

Give someone the gift of a lifetime

A trial flying lesson, valid 12 months. No previous experience needed: they'll fly the aircraft themselves, hands on.

Midland Air Training gift voucher cards

30-minute trial lesson

£125

60-minute trial lesson

£250

Online checkout is an optional add-on: a secure Stripe checkout that emails the voucher instantly, with no cart and no account. Prefer to talk? Ring us and we'll sort it.

Book a lesson

Tell us when you'd like to fly

Leave your details and we'll call you back to find a slot. Prefer to talk now? Ring 024 7630 4914: we're open five days a week from 9am at the Airpark Flight Centre, Rowley Road.

  • No obligation, and no experience needed
  • Gift vouchers valid 12 months
  • Ground school and exam fees included in training

By enquiring you agree to be contacted about your lesson. We never share your details.

Find us

Airpark, Rowley Road, Coventry Airport

Four miles south of Coventry city centre, at the Airpark beside the Midland Air Museum. Reserved parking spaces are signed off Rowley Road.

Hand-drawn map: Airpark entrance off Rowley Road, past the Air Museum to reception and reserved parking
Our own directions: in off Rowley Road, past the Air Museum to reception and the reserved parking. Click to enlarge