We do not rent aircraft
There is no rental fleet here. Every aircraft on the ramp is committed to a student on a syllabus, which is the reason lessons do not get bumped by somebody taking a friend to lunch.
No rental line
Founded
2006
We sold the airplane business.
Thrust began in 2006 importing and distributing light sport aircraft. We taught people to fly because the people buying them needed teaching. By 2017 it was obvious which half was the real business, so we stopped selling aircraft entirely.
Training only, since
2017
Campuses
Six
Part 141 certificate
3USS960L
What actually happened.
2006. Thrust starts as an importer and distributor of light sport aircraft. Flight training gets added because somebody who has just bought an aeroplane needs to be able to fly it.
2017. The aircraft sales business is discontinued. Training was the part worth keeping, and running both meant doing neither properly.
2018. The company is renamed Thrust Flight.
2025. Shortened to Thrust, because flight training is no longer all of it. A Part 147 maintenance school and a Part 65 dispatcher program open the same year.
Now. Six campuses across Texas, Arizona and Virginia, running the same Part 141 syllabus with the same fleet at every one.
What we do not do.
Worth saying plainly, because it is the fastest way to work out whether we are the right school for you.
We are not a hobby school
You can absolutely get a private certificate here and never do anything else with it, and plenty of people do. But the school is built around people going the whole way, and that shapes the scheduling, the fleet and the staffing.
Built for the full course
Discovery flights are not a business line
We fly them, and they are the cheapest honest way to find out whether you like this. They are not how the school makes money, so nobody here has a target to hit selling you one.
Offered, not sold
Who says we are any good.
Three separate bodies have looked at this school and signed something. The FAA holds our Part 141 certificate, 3USS960L, which is what lets us teach an approved syllabus and hold examining authority. The Department of Veterans Affairs approves us for veteran training. And the International Aerospace Accrediting Commission accredits the Addison campus and its satellites.
None of that tells you whether people finish. The graduation rates do, including the year they were bad.
Who runs it
Thrust Flight is led by CEO Patrick Arnzen, a former airline pilot and an FAA designated pilot examiner since 2012. Meet the team.
Worth a look.
Come and look at one.
Six campuses, the same program at each. The useful next step is standing on a ramp talking to somebody who teaches here.
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