Northeast Philadelphia Airport · KPNE
Start with a discovery flight: a real airplane, a certificated instructor beside you, and your hands on the controls over Northeast Philadelphia. When you're hooked, we'll train you one-on-one all the way to your commercial certificate.
1. Philadelphia City Council Resolution 230535, adopted June 2023. 2. Google and Groupon customer reviews, October 2026.
Book a flight
No experience and no commitment. Order online, pick your date, and fly. Every flight also makes an unforgettable gift.
Take the controls with a certificated instructor beside you. Try a $99 lap around the pattern, where you taxi, take off and land, or the longer $199 discovery flight.
The skyline, the rivers and the landmarks from above, with a professional pilot at the controls.
Any amount, for a discovery flight, a city tour or lessons toward a pilot certificate.
Have a Groupon voucher? You don't need to buy again. Redeem your voucher. A $30 per flight fuel and landing surcharge is paid on arrival.
Training programs
Train one-on-one with certificated instructors from your first lesson to your professional certificate. Every program is built around your schedule under FAA Part 61.
Your license to fly. Carry passengers, fly cross-country and explore the Northeast on your own terms.
Program details Next stepFly through clouds and low visibility by reference to instruments. The rating that makes you a safer, more capable pilot.
Program details Go proGet paid to fly. The certificate that launches a professional aviation career.
Program details Add-onEarn twin-engine privileges in our Piper Seneca, a key step on the path to the airlines.
Program detailsYour flight path
Most of our students start with a single discovery flight. Here is where that first flight can take you.
Take the controls with an instructor beside you.
Your instructor steps out. The airplane is all yours.
Fly friends and family anywhere in good weather.
Fly safely in clouds and low visibility.
Earn the certificate that lets you fly for pay.
Step up to twins and the airline path.
Why GQ Aviation
You fly one-on-one with an instructor every lesson. No crowded classrooms and no waiting your turn.
Part 61 training lets us build lessons around your job, classes and family instead of a fixed calendar.
Founded by Faisal Husein, who flew commercial airliners for Mesa Airlines and JetBlue. We train to professional standards from day one.
Northeast Philadelphia Airport has a control tower and two runways beneath Philadelphia's busy airspace. You build confident radio skills early.
Our checkride sign-offs come from an FAA Gold Seal flight instructor, and 90%+ of our students pass.
A minority-owned flight school opening the cockpit to more of Philadelphia. In 2023, City Council honored our nearly a decade of service.
Recognized by City Council
“A premier flight school at the Philadelphia Northeast Airport.”
What flyers say
Guests consistently mention patient, friendly instructors, a comfortable first flight and the thrill of taking the controls.
Read our Google reviewsThe fleet
Learn in the Cessna and Piper airplanes that trained generations of pilots. Then step up to the twin-engine Piper Seneca for your multi-engine rating.
Already a pilot? We've rented aircraft at KPNE since 2015. Ask about aircraft rental.
Meet the fleetQuestions
Here are the questions we hear most. If yours is not here, just ask.
All frequently asked questionsNone at all. Your discovery flight is your first lesson. Your instructor explains everything on the ground first, then helps you fly.
The FAA minimum is 40 flight hours, and most students need 60 to 75. Flying two or three times a week is the fastest and most affordable way to finish.
You can start lessons at any age. You can fly solo at 16, earn a Private Pilot certificate at 17 and a Commercial certificate at 18.
We fly from Northeast Philadelphia Airport (KPNE) at 9800 Ashton Rd, Hangar A, Philadelphia, PA 19114.
Buy a discovery flight today and take the controls on day one.