Govt. Flying Training School
- Total aircraft
- 4
- Single-engine
- 3
- Multi-engine
- 1
- Bases
- 1
Why DGCA did not rank this school
Not ranked in this phase: FTO approval was not valid as on 28 Feb 2026.
Where it flies
- Bengaluru, KarnatakaJakkur Aerodrome, Bangalore Karnataka
Fleet
DGCA lists 4 aircraft — 3 single-engine and 1 multi-engine.
- Cessna 152
- Cessna 172
- Tecnam P2006T
DGCA approval
- Approval number
- 07/2016
- Valid from
- 15 Dec 2021
- Valid to
- 14 Dec 2023expired 2023
- Ownership
- State Government
- Serial in DGCA list
- #22
DGCA's list records this approval as valid only to 14 Dec 2023. Confirm the current status on DGCA's list before you pay anything.
DGCA remark: Presently non-operational Para 17.4 of CAR Section 7 Series D Part I refers
What the DGCA figures tell you
Check before you commit
- DGCA lists only 4 aircraft. A small fleet means one grounded aeroplane is a large share of the line, so ask how many are serviceable today and how many students are sharing them.
- 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.
- 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.
- DGCA's list records this school's approval as already past its validity date. Confirm the current status on DGCA's own list before paying anything.
- DGCA attached a remark to this school: Presently non-operational Para 17.4 of CAR Section 7 Series D Part I refers
- DGCA left this school out of its April 2026 ranking. Its stated reason: Not ranked in this phase: FTO approval was not valid as on 28 Feb 2026.
- DGCA lists no website for this school, so there is no public page to check its claims against.
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
Generally fog-free with long flyable seasons, but parts of the south get two wet spells — the southwest monsoon (Jun–Sep) and the northeast monsoon (Oct–Dec).
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
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
- 1950
- Run by
- Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports, Government of Karnataka
- DGCA's April 2026 ranking excluded this school because its FTO approval was not valid as on 28 February 2026, and DGCA's list records it as presently non-operational. Both of those facts are shown above and stand.
- Training had been suspended for nearly three years after the previous approval lapsed in 2023.
- DGCA's next ranking is due 1 October 2026. Until it is published, this school's exclusion above reflects the February 2026 position, not the current one.
In its favour
- DGCA issued a fresh five-year Certificate of Approval on 16 July 2026, valid to 15 July 2031, covering SPL, PPL, CPL, instructor ratings and multi-engine operations.
- Run by a state government department rather than a private owner.
Check before you commit
- The category shown above is from DGCA's April 2026 ranking, which assessed the position on 28 February 2026, before the renewal. Check the ranking due on 1 October 2026 for the current picture.
- Training was suspended for close to three years until July 2026, so ask how many instructors and aircraft are actually back on line.
- A state proposal to move the school to Mysuru and redevelop the Jakkur site was shelved after opposition, but the question has been raised once.
- The school's own domain did not resolve when we checked.
Weather at these bases
Jakkur sits on the Bengaluru plateau, which has no meaningful fog season and two moderate wet spells rather than one intense monsoon.
This is the clearest example on the site of why a dated document is not the same thing as the current position.
DGCA's April 2026 ranking assessed flying schools as they stood on 28 February 2026. On that date this school had no valid FTO approval, so DGCA excluded it from the ranking, and DGCA's list of approved organisations records it as presently non-operational. Both of those facts are shown above, unchanged, because they are what the official document says.
They are also, as of July 2026, out of date.
On 16 July 2026 DGCA renewed the school's Flying Training Organisation approval and issued a fresh Certificate of Approval valid from 16 July 2026 to 15 July 2031. It covers SPL, PPL, CPL, the restricted radio telephony licence, instructor ratings, and single- and multi-engine operations.
Training here had been suspended for close to three years after the previous approval lapsed in 2023, which is why anyone reading the DGCA ranking alone would reasonably have written this school off.
Why it nearly did not reopen
The school sits on Jakkur aerodrome in Bengaluru, on land that is worth a great deal. The state government proposed moving the flying school to Mysuru and redeveloping the aerodrome, a plan that drew sustained opposition and was subsequently shelved. The renewal followed.
That history is worth carrying into a conversation with the school. A five-year certificate is a real commitment, but the question of what happens to the site has been raised once and can be raised again.
What we could not verify
The school's own domain did not resolve when we checked, so the Karnataka government's departmental page is the only official source we could read directly. The government page dates the school to 1950 and lists a small fleet; DGCA's own figures are the ones shown above.
DGCA reissues its ranking twice a year, and the next one is expected on 1 October 2026. That assessment, not this page, is where the school's exclusion should finally resolve. Until then, treat the category shown above as the February 2026 position.
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On the evidence we can cite, yes: DGCA issued a fresh five-year certificate on 16 July 2026. The exclusion shown above is from the April 2026 ranking, which assessed an earlier date. Confirm the current status on DGCA's own list before you pay anything, which is the right thing to do for any school here.
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Because the ranking is DGCA's, not ours. We transcribe it and date it. If we quietly edited a published figure because we had read a news report, none of the other numbers on this site would be trustworthy either. The correction belongs here, sourced and separate.