{"id":25257,"date":"2023-04-03T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25257"},"modified":"2023-04-03T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:56:26","slug":"epic-flight-academy-expands-training-fleet-with-cessna-skyhawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/epic-flight-academy-expands-training-fleet-with-cessna-skyhawk\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Epic Flight Academy Expands Training Fleet with Cessna Skyhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txtav.com\/\">Textron Aviation<\/a> announced an agreement with long-term customer <a href=\"https:\/\/epicflightacademy.com\/\">Epic Flight Academy<\/a> at the 2023 Sun n\u2019 Fun Aerospace Expo for the order of 15 new Cessna Skyhawk 172 aircraft. As a Cessna Pilot Center, Epic Flight Academy has been training pilots since 1999 and thousands of students from over 80 countries have graduated from the flight school. The Cessna Skyhawk is Epic\u2019s exclusive single-engine aircraft, with a total fleet of 43 ordered since 2016. The new aircraft will supplement and expand Epic Flight Academy\u2019s current fleet based at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Cessna Skyhawk has been one of the world\u2019s top training\naircraft for over six decades,\u201d said Chris Crow, vice president, Textron\nAviation Piston Sales. \u201cWe are thrilled to see these aircraft continue to\ninspire the next generation of professional pilots through this agreement with\nEpic Flight Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stable flight characteristics, advanced avionics, and\nproven dispatch reliability of the Skyhawk have made it a dependable training\nplatform for Epic. The new airplanes will be used exclusively by students to\nput them in the pilot\u2019s seat of the best training aircraft in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At Epic, our motto has always been \u2018Safety first!\u2019\nThis is why we train our pilots in the Cessna Skyhawk,\u201d said Danny Perna, founder\nand CEO, Epic Flight Academy. \u201cThis aircraft proves itself with every flight\nand prepares our students for a successful career. We can&#8217;t wait to take\ndelivery and expand our fleet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the aircraft first took to the sky, more than 45,000\nSkyhawks have been delivered to customers worldwide\u2014more than any other\naircraft in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textron Aviation announced an agreement with long-term customer Epic Flight Academy at the 2023 Sun n\u2019 Fun Aerospace Expo for the order of 15 new Cessna Skyhawk 172 aircraft. As a Cessna Pilot Center, Epic Flight Academy has been training pilots since 1999 and thousands of students from over 80 countries have graduated from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116,30,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-front-page-slider","category-florida","category-kansas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/epic-473978-Aerial-Photo-Shoot-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25261,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257\/revisions\/25261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}