Patiala Aviation Club
- Total aircraft
- 9
- Single-engine
- 6
- Multi-engine
- 3
- Bases
- 2
Where it flies
- Patiala, PunjabHanger -1, Civil Aerodrome, Sangrur Road, Patiala, Punjab- 147001
- Amritsar, PunjabSri Guru Ram Das Jee, International Airport Amritsar Punjab
Fleet
DGCA lists 9 aircraft — 6 single-engine and 3 multi-engine.
- Beech Baron
- Cessna 152
- Cessna 172
- Tecnam P2006T
DGCA approval
- Approval number
- 02/2018
- Valid from
- 13 May 2023
- Valid to
- 12 May 2028to 2028
- Ownership
- State Government
- Serial in DGCA list
- #32
What the DGCA figures tell you
In its favour
- 3 multi-engine aircraft listed, so the multi-engine part of the course is less likely to be a bottleneck.
- DGCA approval runs to May 2028, 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.
- 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
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
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
- 1962
- Run by
- Punjab Government aided
- Ground school
- Runs its own ground school
- Inaugurated in 1962 by the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Partap Singh Kairon, as a Punjab Government aided venture.
- DGCA lists no website for this club; the club maintains one at the address cited below.
In its favour
- Operating since 1962 as a Punjab government aided venture.
- Runs its own ground training with classrooms, a library and simulator equipment for instrument work.
- The Amritsar base is an international airport with full instrument approaches and on-field weather reporting.
Check before you commit
- DGCA lists no website for this club. It maintains one, linked above, but the official record does not carry it.
Weather at these bases
Patiala and Amritsar are both deep in the northern winter fog belt, where December and January fog is the main cause of lost flying days. Summer heat also pushes density altitude up, which cuts useful load.