The FAS PILOT ACADEMY aircraft fleet consists of modern, new generation aircraft as well as former ones with upgraded equipment and aids. All aircraft are in excellent condition and maintained by our own maintenance organization.
Our aircraft fleet consists of:
- 3 Aerospatiale-Socata TB09 Tampico
- 1 Aerospatiale-Socata TB10 Tobago
- 1 Diamond DA40NG
- 1 Diamond DA20-C1
- 1 Diamond D42DTI
- 1 Piper SENECA II – PA34-220T Twin-Engine
- 1 Tecnam P2006T
The specific types of aircraft have been selected to enable the most appropriate aircraft to be used for each phase or type of training, offering a higher level of safety, comfort and training performance to the students, allowing them to take full advantage of their potential.
Diamond DA40NG
The Diamond DA40NG, is a low-wing 4-seat composite airplane that is ideally suitable for primary flight training and especially for IR training. The airplane is equipped with the 4-cylinder liquid-cooled fuel-injected Austro E4-A engine with constant speed 3-bladed propeller, and with extended range fuel tanks. The engine performance is controlled by the power lever through a digital engine control (EECU) following and simulating the modern airline airplanes philosophy.
Our Diamond is equipped with the incredible Garmin G-1000, making the DA40 NG the most advanced, high-tech plane in its category. The fully integrated G1000 cockpit in our DA40 NG with the latest features and the two 10-inch Flight Displays (Primary Flight Display and Multi-Function Flight Display) NXI GLASS PANEL, provides superior situational awareness, comfort and safety. A continuously updated database supports on-screen navigation, communication and mapping functions, ensuring safer approaches and departures.
Since IR rating is a prerequisite for many training courses and especially for acquiring professional licenses, DA40 NG is the ideal aircraft to take both initial and advanced IR training, either as a competency-based or as full IR course. This modern electronic environment, gives the opportunity to the trainees to be familiarized with their future working environment in the airlines and that is why FAS Academy selected and decided to integrate DA40 NG in its fleet and mainly in its IR training courses.
The DIAMOND DA40NG aircraft is designed specifically for training with a modern Full Glass Cockpit Version, Full IFR Equipped. Its engine also equipped with Full Authorized Digital Electronic Control (FADEC), Engine Control Unit (ECU), systems similar to big airlines aircrafts so they give students everything they need in the training program for airline pilots in the training phases that will be used. The first DIAMOND DA40 NG New Generation has already arrived at our facilities, while the next one will arrive at the beginning of the year.
Diamond DA20-C1 Katana
The Diamond DA20 C1 is a sporty, elegant two-seat aircraft intended for training. It is equipped with a fuel injected 125 hp Continental Motors IO-240 engine with a two bladed foxed-pitch propeller, which offers outstanding climb and cruise performance. Certified in the “Utility” category, it is approved among others for spinning and flight maneuvers with angle of bank up to 60°.
The sporty cockpit is one of the most comfortable and intuitive in its class thanks to ergonomically designed seats, and the professional instrument panel. The DA20's instrumentation is designed for safety, a positive learning transfer, reliability and value. The DA20 is EASA certified for Night VFR (Night Visual Flight Rules), and therefore is the ideal trainer from first flight through night VFR.
All the above features and characteristics make Diamond DA20-C1 Katana the ideal trainer for A-UPRT (Advanced UPRT), IR (Instrument Rating) and Night Rating courses.
Socata TB-9 Tampico
The SOCATA TB9 Tampico is a fixed-gear four seat single-engine airplane with convenient cockpit layout. With its 40 gallons of usable fuel is capable of more than 4 hours flying and is equipped with day/night VFR equipment.
The spacious cockpit is one of the most comfortable in its class equipped with analog instruments and Garmin GPS receiver. The TB9's flight characteristics and instrumentation, offer safety and positive learning transfer. The TB9 is EASA certified for Night VFR (Night Visual Flight Rules), and therefore is the ideal trainer from first flight through night VFR.
The Tampico is known to be a friendly, docile and comfortable aircraft. Having a good headroom and visibility, the airplane is ideal for primary and instrument training.
Socata TB-10 Tobago
Our Socata TB10 Tobago is a fixed-gear four to five seat single-engine touring aircraft produced by the French manufacturer SOCATA (Societe de Construction d'Avions de Tourisme et d'Affaires). It belongs to the SOCATA TB (Caribbean) series of light touring aircrafts, together with the TB9 Tampico and the TB20 Trinidad.
The Socata TB-10 Tobago has been built for those looking for a comfortable training/cross-country airplane. It offers a good combination of speed and economy, allied with nice handling and a fine balance between control and stability, all wrapped up in a large, comfortable cabin. Looking similar to its “cousin” TB9, is equipped with a three blade variable speed propeller, which gives more speed and improved flight characteristics.
The TB-10 is speed-stable, very smooth, quiet and easy to land. The cockpit is spacious, with analog instruments and Garmin GPS receiver. The TB10 is EASA certified for Night VFR (Night Visual Flight Rules), and therefore is the ideal trainer from first flight through night VFR.
Piper SENECA II – PA34-200T
The The Piper PA-34 Seneca is a twin-engined light aircraft, produced in the United States by Piper Aircraft. It has been in non-continuous production since 1971. The Seneca is primarily used for personal and business flying as well as multi-engine class rating flight training.
Responding to complaints about the aircraft's handling qualities, Piper introduced the PA-34-200T Seneca II. The aircraft was certified on 18 July 1974 and introduced as a 1975 model.
The new model incorporated changes in the aircraft's control surfaces, including enlarged and balanced ailerons, the addition of a rudder anti-servo tab, and a stabilator bobweight.
The "T" in the new model designation reflected a change to turbocharged, six-cylinder Continental TSIO-360E or EB engines for improved performance, particularly at higher altitudes. The Seneca II retained the counter-rotating engine arrangement of the earlier Seneca I.
The Seneca II also introduced optional "club seating" whereby the two center-row seats face rearwards and the two back seats face forward allowing more legroom in the passenger cabin. A total of 2,588 Seneca IIs were built.
Gross weights are 4,570lb (2,070kg) for takeoff and 4,342lb (1,969kg) for landing, with all weight in excess of 4,000lb (1,800kg) required to be fuel.
Tecnam P2006T
The Tecnam P2006T is an Italian high-winged twin-engined all-metal light aircraft, built by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam based in Capua, Italy, near Naples. The P2006T received airworthiness certification in the European Union by EASA under CS23 in 2003, type certification in 2009, and Federal Aviation Administration FAR Part 23 certification in 2010.
The P2006T is the lightest twin-engined certified aircraft available. It is a four-seat aircraft with fully retractable landing gear and powered by liquid-cooled Rotax engines that can run on 92 octane unleaded automotive gasoline as well as Avgas 100LL.
The P2006T is a twin-engined four-seat cantilever high-wing monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. Its stabilator is attached to the fuselage, mostly aft of the vertical fin (the stabilator is a single unit with a cutout in its leading edge where it mounts to the tailcone). The nosewheel of the tricycle landing gear retracts into the nose cone; the trailing-link main units retract into stubs which extend from the lower fuselage. The fuselage section is a slightly rounded rectangle, higher than it is wide. A door on each side of the fuselage provides access to the seating area; in addition an escape hatch is provided above the two forward seats, to be used if fuselage deformation in a crash prevents those doors from being operable.
The Rotax engine cylinder heads are liquid-cooled; there are cooling vanes on the cylinder barrels. Thus both cooling airflow through the nacelle, and a cooling radiator, are required in each cowl. The electric starters, used to start the engines on the ground, must also be used for an inflight restart, since the highly geared engines[1] cannot be turned by airflow past the stopped propeller. Thus, for FAA certification, the company was required to add a backup battery in addition to the standard battery. The pilot's power quadrant contains three controls for each engine: throttle, propeller rpm, and carburetor heat. The engines have automatic mixture adjustment, so there is no mixture control required on the panel.
The linkage between the flight controls and the flight surfaces is provided by pushrod, rather than the more common use of cables and pulleys.
The P2006T first flew on 13 September 2007 and was certified by EASA on 5 June 2009.
Diamond D42DTI
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star is a four seat, twin engine, propeller-driven airplane developed and manufactured in Austria and Canada by Diamond Aircraft Industries, an Austrian subsidiary of China-based Wanfeng Aviation. It was Diamond's first twin engine design, as well as the first new European twin-engine aircraft in its category to be developed in over 25 years. In 2004, the DA42 became the first diesel-powered fixed-wing aircraft to perform a non-stop crossing of the North Atlantic.
By 2012, the DA42 had become a key revenue generator for the company, having gained popularity with government and military operators in addition to the civil market that had suffered as a result of the Great Recession. Government customers have typically employed the type in the aerial surveillance role, which contributed towards the development of the Aeronautics Defense Dominator, a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which had been derived from the DA42.
Since its founding in the 1980s, Austrian manufacturer Diamond Aircraft Industries had concentrated on building an extensive product line. During the late 1990s, company founder and chief executive officer Christian Dries approached the design team with a concept for a twin-engined aircraft, which became the company's first multi-engined aircraft, and became the next step beyond the Diamond DA40. This concept emphasised several key qualities, including the need for the aircraft to be simple to operate and fuel-efficient, while providing a luxurious four-seat passenger compartment akin to modern automobiles. The concept was not popular at the time; Aerospace publication Flying Magazine referred to Diamond's choice to develop a twin-engined aircraft for general aviation use as "the emergence of an all-new light-piston twin in this class something of a surprise."
During April 2004, the DA42 Twin Star received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) under the latter's newly-introduced Part procedures. In July 2005, the aircraft was awarded certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the US. It has been certified to fly under both visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR), allowing it to be operated under a wide range of conditions. At the time of its introduction to service, aerospace publication Flight International observed that "The DA42 has no natural competitors in its class and sets a benchmark for European general aviation".
During August 2004, the DA42 Twin Star piloted by Gérard Guillaumaud became the first diesel-powered fixed-wing aircraft to perform a non-stop crossing of the North Atlantic, taking 12.5 hours while operating with an average fuel consumption of 21.73 litres (4.78 imp gal; 5.74 US gal) per hour (10.86 litres (2.39 imp gal; 2.87 US gal) per hour per engine). In June 2010, a DA42 powered by Austro AE300 engines became the first aircraft to be publicly flown on algae-derived jet fuel.
As a consequence of the insolvency of engine manufacturer Thielert and decisions of the insolvency administrator, including cancelling warranty support and the prorating of time-between-overhaul for the Thielert engines that power the DA42, in July 2008, Diamond announced that production of the DA42 had been suspended. At the time production was suspended the DA42 was reported to hold around 80% of the piston twin market.
