Company Information

 


Who We Are

Aviation Training Center is owned and operated by Spence and Marie Campbell. Spence is the Director of Training and Marie is the Business Manager.

Aviation Training Center is the only exclusive ground school, simulator and aviation career preparation training facility in the Seattle Washington area. We do not own aircraft, but our instructors do offer flight training either in the student's airplane or through the use of the airplanes of several first class Fixed Base Operations (FBOs) in the Puget Sound region. These FBOs are mainly located at Boeing Field, Renton Airport, and Paine Field.


Spence shows off his hand-made
experimental airplane at an air show.

Why We're Here

The goal of Aviation Training Center is to provide the best professional ground school, simulator, and airline career preparation training available anywhere.

We feel that it is vital for you as a pilot to have somewhere to train where the instructors are not just teaching so that they can accumulate flight hours and move on to a career with an airline. Ground school training is different from flight training, and it requires a dedicated set of instructors who have vast experience both as pilots and as teachers to do the job right. Our instructors are not getting ready to move up the aviation career ladder--they are really interested in being great aviation instructors.

We are here because we feel that it takes a specialist to teach ground schools, simulator flight, and aviation career preparation so that you have an edge up in the air and in the aviation job market.

That is the main difference between us and the competition. To our students, it makes all the difference in the world. We hope you can see why.

Where We Came From

To get the story of where we came from, you should check out the profiles of each of our staff members.

Each one has a specific set of skills and experiences that stand out above other instructors in the field. They are our most valuable asset. They are who we are and where we came from.

Where We Are Going

This is a particularly exciting moment in aviation history. We see that general aviation and commercial aviation is experiencing a boom of activity. Some of our goals as a company include:

  • meeting the huge increase in demand for our services;
  • developing training programs that increase the safety of our students;
  • creating new opportunities for pilots who want an accelerated preparation for a career in aviation, regardless of their starting point;
  • building our reputation as the best place to come for ground school, simulator, and aviation career training.

Besides these goals are many others in the works. We believe that the aviation training market is in constant flux, and are determined to evolve as the industry evolves, provide training services to fill niches, and promote safety in aviation wherever possible. Indeed, we want to provide the best training possible for you, our customers.