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Central India · rank 21 of 35

The Madhya Pradesh Flying Club Ltd.

Total aircraft
8
Single-engine
6
Multi-engine
2
Bases
1

Where it flies

  • Indore, Madhya Pradesh
    Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport, Civil Aerodrome, Bijasan Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452005

Fleet

DGCA lists 8 aircraft — 6 single-engine and 2 multi-engine.

  • Beech Baron
  • Cessna 152
  • Cessna 172
  • Partenavia P-68

DGCA approval

Approval number
02/2015
Valid from
21 Mar 2024
Valid to
20 Mar 2029to 2029
Ownership
Trust
Serial in DGCA list
#28

What the DGCA figures tell you

In its favour

  • DGCA approval runs to March 2029, so renewal is not an immediate question.

Check before you commit

  • 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; 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 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
1951
Ground school
Runs its own ground school
  • Established on 9 October 1951, with flying operations starting in 1955.
  • It describes holding DGCA-approved simulators but does not name the types, so none are listed here.
  • The club's site refers to bases at Indore and Bhopal; DGCA's list carries only the Indore aerodrome. DGCA is the record.

In its favour

  • Continuously operating since 1955, one of the longest records in this directory.
  • Runs its own ground training for the DGCA subjects rather than outsourcing it.

Check before you commit

  • The club's site refers to bases at Indore and Bhopal, but DGCA lists only Indore. Confirm which airfield you would fly from.
  • It advertises DGCA-approved simulators without naming the types. Ask what the device actually is and how many of your hours it can count for.

Weather at these bases

Indore is on the Malwa plateau, where the monsoon from June to September is the main disruption and winter fog is far less of a problem than in the northern plains.

Last verified 5 August 2026
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