Our Airport
Pan Am International Flight Academy is located at the Phoenix Deer Valley Municipal Airport about 20 miles north of Downtown Phoenix. Pan Am International Flight Academy established the Deer Valley Training Center in 1999 to solely serve the needs of prospective professional pilots who wish to achieve their goal quickly without sacrificing training quality and safety. Pan Am's Deer Valley Training Center is home to over 300 American and international students all with the goal of becoming a professional pilot. The Deer Valley Airport is the second busiest general aviation airport in the country, which allows students to practice in an environment that will emulate the airports used by the airlines. Learning at this busy, towered airport requires the multitasking skills necessary to operate in the fast-paced airline environment.

Flight Operations Center
Our flight training operations are conducted out of our Flight Operations Center. This building includes dispatch, a weather room, briefing/study rooms, our full-service maintenance facility, scheduling, and the offices of our flight leadership team.

Classroom/Simulator Building
The Classroom Building is an excellent place for our students to learn all of the fundamentals before applying them in the airplane. Part of becoming a professional pilot is focused study of the aircraft systems, weather, aerodynamics, regulations, crew resource management, and methods of instruction. We have six classrooms, four full-time ground instructors, and a number of current flight instructors who always bring recent practical experience into the classroom. The classroom building includes a library, testing center, offices for the ground instructors, seven Frasca flight training devices, advanced training facilities, and of course, our CRJ-200 Level 5 flight training device. Need current charts or books? Visit our on-site bookstore!

Free seminars are offered regularly to Pan Am students and instructors to help keep you up to speed on important aviation topics. Recent seminars include Hot Weather Operations, Aircraft Maintenance, and Resume Writing & Interviewing.

 Our Equipment
We want you to stay on course! As such we have provided modern training aircraft with advanced navigation equipment. Single-engine training is done using our large fleet of New Piper Archer IIIs, and multi-engine training is done using our large fleet of New Piper Seminoles. All aircraft are equipped with Garmin 430 GPS systems that are kept current for use under instrument flight rules.

To enhance your training we also utilize a fleet of flight training devices for use throughout your training. These computerized trainers allow our students to practice certain exercises that cannot be done in the airplane. Our students can save training costs by learning skills in the simulator before applying them in the airplane.

Our advanced training equipment will help students to bridge the gap between flying piston and jet aircraft. We have simulators to help our students learn the same Flight Management System that some airlines use today. Students can practice their procedures, checklists, and flows in the Cockpit Procedures Trainer before transitioning to our CRJ-200 Level 5 Flight Training Device.

On-Site Maintenance
To help prepare you for an airline career and to help keep your training on course, our facility is run like an airline. We have our own maintenance facility located on campus that operates day and night to keep our planes in top shape. Our FAA-approved progressive inspection program maximizes safety while minimizing the time aircraft are unavailable to students. The maintenance department has won the FAA’s prestigious Diamond Award for four consecutive years. With excellent weather and plenty of technicians working around the clock, training delays will be almost non-existent.