Chimes Aviation Academy
- Total aircraft
- 35
- Single-engine
- 32
- Multi-engine
- 3
- Bases
- 2
Where it flies
- Dhana, Madhya PradeshDhana Airstrip, Sagar District - Madhya Pradesh: 470228
- Neemuch, Madhya PradeshNeemuch Airstrip, Jaysingpura, Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh - 458441
Fleet
DGCA lists 35 aircraft — 32 single-engine and 3 multi-engine.
- Cessna 172
- Diamond DA-42
- Piper PA-28
- Tecnam P2010
DGCA approval
- Approval number
- 04/2015
- Valid from
- 21 Apr 2024
- Valid to
- 20 Apr 2029to 2029
- Ownership
- Private Ltd.
- Serial in DGCA list
- #13
What the DGCA figures tell you
In its favour
- DGCA graded it Category B in the April 2026 ranking.
- A large fleet for an Indian FTO: DGCA lists 35 aircraft, which is more capacity to absorb an aircraft going unserviceable.
- 3 multi-engine aircraft listed, so the multi-engine part of the course is less likely to be a bottleneck.
- DGCA approval runs to April 2029, so renewal is not an immediate question.
Check before you commit
- The nearest weather station is not the airfield itself for at least one base, so live reports are an approximation of what you would actually be flying in.
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; outside it the plateau gives long stretches of clear, stable flying weather, one reason several high-volume FTOs sit here.
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.
Contact
Model this school's costAircraft-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.
- Run by
- Chimes Group
- Ground school
- Runs its own ground school
- Accommodation
- On-campus hostel
- Ground training runs from a dedicated school in Gurgaon, separate from the two flying bases, so the course involves relocating between them.
- The academy lists secure on-campus hostel capacity for more than 100 cadets at each of Dhana and Neemuch.
- It runs an airline cadet programme alongside its own flying programme.
In its favour
- Runs an airline cadet pilot programme feeding a scheduled carrier, which is a defined route to a first officer seat.
- States on-campus hostel capacity for more than 100 cadets at each of its two flying bases.
- Advertises a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit fleet.
Check before you commit
- The academy's own site contradicts itself: different sections claim 2 and 3 airbases, fleets of 33 and 24 aircraft, and both 15 and 18 years of operation. DGCA's figures above are the ones to plan against, and the inconsistency is worth raising with them directly.
- Ground training is at Gurugram while flying is in Madhya Pradesh, so the course involves relocating between the two.
- It claims one of the lowest incident rates in the Indian FTO sector. No public dataset supports or refutes that, so treat it as an unverified marketing claim.
Weather at these bases
Dhana and Neemuch are both inland Madhya Pradesh plateau strips, well outside the northern winter fog belt, with the June to September monsoon as the main interruption.