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2. Civilian Pilot Training Program - Wikipedia

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   Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.

3. United States Army Air Forces Contract Flying School Airfields

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   In the authorization, the Air Corps was authorized to enroll Army Flight Cadets in civilian training schools. Moving forward, in June 1939, the War Department approved Arnold's request to organize nine civilian flight schools to train Army pilots. [2] Flight training would begin at most of these schools in July 1939.

4. Barbara Erickson London - Wikipedia

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   London was born on July 1, 1920, in Seattle, Washington. In 1940 at the University of Washington in Seattle, [1] she enrolled in the Civilian Pilot Training program, while working at Boeing on B-17s. [2] She soon became a flying instructor, flying sea planes as well as land planes. Approximately one woman was admitted for every ten men to this ...

5. Initial Flight Training - Wikipedia

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   These three programs were originally for pilot candidates who did not have at least an FAA Private Pilot Certificate (e.g. current pilots and navigators/combat system operators), and were consolidated into the current single civilian contractor-operated program under direct USAF auspices and oversight of the 12th Flying Training Wing (12 FTW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) at ...

6. 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School - Wikipedia

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   By 1944 when the combined civilian and military training programs ended, 435,000 men and women had qualified as pilots at 1,460 flight schools, and 1,132 colleges and universities. [4] Of those figures, 250,000 were trained at 75 Contract Pilot flight schools.

7. Naval aviator (United States) - Wikipedia

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   IFS is the first step to becoming a naval aviator. After passing a medical screening, all new flight school students are enrolled in one of five civilian flight schools near NAS Pensacola. For those students requiring IFS, they will complete 2 weeks of ground training and around 14 hours of flight training in single-engined general aviation ...