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East India · rank 14 of 35

Alchemist Aviation Pvt. Ltd.

Total aircraft
10
Single-engine
9
Multi-engine
1
Bases
1

Where it flies

  • Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
    Sonari Aerodrome, Jamshedpur Jharkhand- 831011

Fleet

DGCA lists 10 aircraft — 9 single-engine and 1 multi-engine.

  • Cessna 152
  • Cessna 172
  • Piper PA-34 Seneca

DGCA approval

Approval number
01/2018
Valid from
21 May 2023
Valid to
20 May 2028to 2028
Ownership
Private Ltd.
Serial in DGCA list
#2

What the DGCA figures tell you

In its favour

  • DGCA graded it Category B in the April 2026 ranking.
  • DGCA approval runs to May 2028, so renewal is not an immediate question.

Check before you commit

  • Just one multi-engine aircraft is listed. Every student needs multi-engine hours, so ask how those slots are scheduled and what happens when that one aeroplane is down.
  • A single flying base, so there is no alternate airfield when it is weather-bound or the runway is closed. Ask what happens to your schedule then.

Every line above restates a figure from DGCA's published documents and says why it matters. Nothing here is our opinion of the school, and none of it measures teaching quality, which no public document reports.

Typical flying weather

Monsoon Jun–Sep, plus Gangetic-plain winter fog (Dec–Jan) that delays morning sorties.

This is a broad regional pattern, not a forecast. What actually matters is how many days a year this base can fly — ask the school for its weather-cancelled sortie count.

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Model this school's cost
Last verified 27 July 2026
Every fact here is transcribed from DGCA's own list of approved FTOs, dated 30 Mar 2026. Approvals lapse and rankings move, so confirm a school on the official documents before you pay anything. There are no fees on this page on purpose: schools quote wildly different numbers for wildly different inclusions, so put the quote you were actually given into the cost worksheet.
Categories come from DGCA's ranking published 1 Apr 2026, which assessed FTOs as on 28 Feb 2026 and ranked 35 of them. The other 6 were excluded, and we show DGCA's stated reason on each of those schools' pages — a school left out for having no valid approval, or for not flying at all, is telling you something no brochure will. Rankings are reissued twice a year, next expected 1 Oct 2026.

Aircraft-to-student ratio is the single best predictor of finishing on time, but DGCA does not publish student numbers — the fleet shown here is one half of that sum, and only the school can give you the other. Ask how many aircraft are serviceable today. Last transcribed 27 Jul 2026.

Beyond the DGCA list

Researched by us from the school's own site, Wikipedia and official pages, then dated and cited. This is weaker evidence than the DGCA figures above, and it is free editorial work: no school pays to appear here, and nothing in this section affects ordering, filtering or ranking anywhere on the site.

Founded
2008
  • Training pilots at Jamshedpur since 2008.

In its favour

  • Training at Jamshedpur since 2008.
  • Sonari aerodrome reports its own weather, so conditions can be checked directly.

Weather at these bases

Jamshedpur is in the Chota Nagpur plateau of Jharkhand, where the June to September monsoon is the main interruption and winter fog is far less severe than in the northern plains.

Last verified 5 August 2026
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