US Aviation Academy

About this school

US Aviation Academy is an FAA Part 147 aviation maintenance school headquartered at its Denton, Texas campus, located at Denton Enterprise Airport (KDTO) just north of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Denton is the academy's flagship A&P campus and the hub of a multi-location maintenance network that also includes campuses in Atlanta, Georgia; Kissimmee, Florida; San Marcos, Texas (serving the Austin–San Antonio corridor); and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Students train hands-on with real aircraft and prepare for the FAA general, airframe, and powerplant exams across an eight-course curriculum (GEN101 through PPT108), capping with the three FAA written tests plus the oral and practical. The standout feature of the program is schedule flexibility. Denton runs the same A&P training on multiple tracks: an 8-month accelerated program for full-time students, a 13-month weekend course, and a 16-month night program built for students balancing work and school. There's also an Accelerated Transition Program — a roughly three-week oral-and-practical prep course for qualified candidates who already have prior aircraft maintenance experience, often from military service or documented work. For international students, the academy operates a Korean Aerospace University pathway that splits training between six months in South Korea and six months in Denton, and it offers a collegiate option through North Central Texas College plus a hybrid-online track and an avionics add-on. A second real differentiator is cost structure: US Aviation Academy supplies the tools students use during training, removing one of the larger upfront expenses that most A&P schools push onto students. The academy also works with multiple financing partners (Sallie Mae, Ascent, Climb, ZuntaFi, Stratus) and is strong on veteran funding — accepting the Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33), VR&E (Chapter 31) for service-connected disabilities, and military Credentialing Assistance through the COOL program. Location is a genuine advantage here. The Denton campus sits inside the DFW aviation market — one of the densest maintenance-employer regions in the country — with named hiring relationships and proximity to operators including American, Delta, Envoy, Endeavor, JSX, Avelo, and the cargo feeder Ameriflight. Graduates pursue roles as aircraft mechanics, aviation maintenance technicians, line and repair-station technicians, and airline mechanics across Texas and nationwide.

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↳ Based on 840 tests (649 passed, 191 failed)

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