Open North Texas sky over the field in Denison, TX

Flight school in Denison, TX.

A Denison flight school with wide-open practice areas and a quiet pattern, 20 minutes' flight north of Addison.

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Airport

North Texas Regional Airport · KGYI

Metro

Texoma / North Texas

Uncongested airspace

20 min from Addison

Why a Denison flight school.

Uncongested airspace, so more of each lesson is spent training instead of taxiing
Small-town cost of living within reach of the Metroplex
A 20-minute flight from the Addison main campus

Facilities

5211 Airport Drive, dispatch
5300 Airport Drive, classroom building
5103 Airport Drive, maintenance

What you would train in

Piper Archer TX for private, instrument and commercial single-engine; Piper Seminole for multi-engine; approved flight simulation devices for procedures work. Same fleet, same syllabus, same Part 141 certificate (3USS960L) at every campus.

A Thrust Flight student in the left seat of a Piper Archer with the avionics lit — The Piper Archer TX flight deck

The field: North Texas Regional Airport (KGYI).

Airport: North Texas Regional Airport
Identifier: KGYI
Field elevation: 749 ft
Airspace: Class E surface area
Frequency: CTAF 123.0
Weather: About 238 flyable days a year

Practice areas. West and north over Lake Texoma, 6 minutes out

Runways
Runway	Length	Surface	Approaches
17L/35R	9,000 ft	Concrete	ILS, RNAV
13/31	4,000 ft	Asphalt	RNAV

Getting here

Addison campus 20 min by air · KADS
Sherman 10 miles
Downtown Dallas 75 miles

FAA VFR sectional chart centered on North Texas Regional Airport (KGYI), showing the surrounding airspace, nearby fields and terrain — **KGYI and the airspace around it.** FAA VFR sectional, 3 September 2026 edition. About 40 nm across. Not for navigation.

Who runs Denison.

Three people you will deal with directly. They are on this field, not at head office.

Hudson Owens

Operations Supervisor

Hunter Little

Chief Flight Instructor

Ryan Luybli

Assistant Chief Flight Instructor

What is on this ramp.

The Denison campus fleet includes four Piper Archer TX trainers, one Piper Seminole, and a Redbird FMX full-motion AATD. Every aircraft is air conditioned, has a glass cockpit, and is maintained by an affiliated Part 145 repair station.

Piper Archer TXSingle-engine trainer. Glass cockpit, autopilot, air conditioning

Piper SeminoleTwin-engine, for the multi-engine rating

Redbird FMXFull-motion simulator, used for instrument and procedure training

Maintained by an affiliated Part 145 repair station. Aircraft move between campuses as demand shifts, so these counts change through the year.

Where you would live.

Texoma Student Apartments

Texoma Student Apartments house Denison students 2.1 miles from the hangar for $900 per month, or $10,800 for 12 months. Housing is billed separately from the $120,000 program price.

2.1 miles from the hangar · Two-bedroom apartments, two students per room