FSTC Flying School Pvt. Ltd.
- Total aircraft
- 17
- Single-engine
- 15
- Multi-engine
- 2
- Bases
- 2
Where it flies
- Bhiwani, HaryanaChaudhary Bansi Lal Airport, SH-16A, Village Gujrani, Bhiwani Airstrip - Haryana 127031
- Narnaul, HaryanaNarnaul Airstrip, Haryana
Fleet
DGCA lists 17 aircraft — 15 single-engine and 2 multi-engine.
- Cessna 172
- Diamond DA-42
- Piper PA-28
- Tecnam P2006T
DGCA approval
- Approval number
- 02/2021
- Valid from
- 20 Oct 2021
- Valid to
- 19 Oct 2026ends 19 Oct 2026
- Ownership
- Private Ltd.
- Serial in DGCA list
- #18
This approval runs out on 19 Oct 2026. Ask the school about renewal before you commit.
What the DGCA figures tell you
In its favour
- DGCA graded it Category B in the April 2026 ranking.
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.
- The approval on DGCA's list runs out within six months. Ask for the renewal position in writing before you pay a deposit.
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
Dense winter fog (Dec–Jan) can ground flying for days at a time, and the southwest monsoon runs Jul–Sep. Summer heat pushes density altitude up, which cuts useful load.
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.
- Founded
- 2012
- Run by
- Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Ltd, which took a majority stake in November 2025
- Ground school
- Runs its own ground school
- The website DGCA's list carries for this school, fstcfto.in, was suspended by its host for non-payment when checked. The school itself is very much operating: its live site is fstc.in. A stale URL in the official record is easy to mistake for a dead school, so both are shown.
- The email DGCA lists, am@fstcfto.in, is on that same lapsed domain, so the contact details shown above are the ones from the school's live site instead: fstc.in and info@fstc.in. DGCA's document still carries the older pair, which is why they differ.
- In November 2025 Adani Defence Systems & Technologies, with Prime Aero Services LLP, agreed to acquire a majority stake at an enterprise value of 820 crore rupees.
- Its published fleet of 11 Cessna 172, 4 Piper Archer, 1 Diamond DA42 and 1 Tecnam P2006T totals 17 aircraft, consistent with the DGCA figures above.
- It states certification by both DGCA and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
In its favour
- Bought by Adani Defence Systems and Technologies in November 2025 at an enterprise value of 820 crore rupees, so it is backed by a large industrial group.
- Runs 11 full-flight simulators at Gurugram and Hyderabad, giving type-rating and recurrent training under the same roof as the flying school.
- Certified by EASA as well as DGCA.
- Its published fleet agrees with DGCA's figures, and Adani's release cites the same 17 aircraft.
Check before you commit
- The website DGCA publishes for this school is suspended. Use fstc.in instead, and be aware the official record is out of date on this point.
- The 11 simulators are airline type-rating devices, not CPL trainers. They do not shorten or cheapen your commercial licence.
- DGCA's list records the approval as running out in October 2026. Ask for the renewal position in writing.
Weather at these bases
Bhiwani and Narnaul are both in Haryana, inside the northern winter fog belt, where December and January fog is the single biggest cause of lost flying days. Ask how many sorties were cancelled last winter.
Start with the trap. The website DGCA's list carries for FSTC is fstcfto.in,
and that domain has been suspended by its host for non-payment. If you checked
only the official record you would conclude that a school DGCA ranks third in
the country had let its website lapse, which is not a good look.
The school's actual site is fstc.in, and the picture there is very different.
Adani bought it in November 2025
On 27 November 2025 Adani Defence Systems & Technologies, together with Prime Aero Services LLP, announced agreements to acquire a majority stake in FSTC at an enterprise value of 820 crore rupees. FSTC joins an Adani Defence portfolio that already included the maintenance businesses Air Works and Indamer Technics.
Ownership changes are worth knowing about, but be careful what you conclude from one. A well-capitalised parent can mean more aircraft and better maintenance. It can also mean a shift in priorities. What it does not do by itself is change how many serviceable aircraft are on the line the week you want to fly.
The simulators are not for your CPL
FSTC's most quoted number is 11 full-flight simulators, which run from centres in Gurugram and Hyderabad. Those are airline type-rating and recurrent-training devices, the kind an employed pilot uses, not the trainers a student flies during a Commercial Pilot Licence.
Your CPL flying happens at Bhiwani and Narnaul in Haryana, which are exactly the two bases DGCA lists above.
A school advertising eleven simulators sounds enormous next to one advertising two aircraft. They are measuring different things. For choosing a CPL school, the number that predicts your finish date is serviceable training aircraft per student, not simulator count.
The fleet figures agree
FSTC lists 11 Cessna 172, 4 Piper Archers, one Diamond DA42 and one Tecnam P2006T. That is 17 aircraft, and DGCA records 15 single-engine and 2 multi-engine, also 17. Adani's release independently cites 17 training aircraft. Three sources agreeing is unusual in this directory and worth noting.
The school also states certification by EASA as well as DGCA.
Whatever the ownership, DGCA's list records this school's approval as running out in October 2026. Ask for the renewal position in writing before you pay a deposit.
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Because DGCA's list is the record, and we transcribe it rather than tidy it. Silently swapping in a better URL would mean the page no longer matches the official document, and then you could not check us against it. The working address is shown here instead, marked as our finding.
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It makes the balance sheet stronger. It does not tell you about instructor availability, aircraft serviceability or how long students are actually taking to finish, which are the things that decide your outcome. Ask for those numbers directly.