SAS Flight Academy
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The former SAS Flight Academy, owned by the STAR Capital Partners http://se.yhp.waymaker.net/sasgroup/release.asp?id=143533 has been merged with Oxford Aviation Academy
Oxford Aviation Academy
Oxford Aviation Academy is an aviation training organisation. It includes the former Oxford Aviation Training - a commercial pilot training school based at Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom and Phoenix Goodyear Airport in the United States; the former SAS Flight Academy, the former GECAT and the...

Ltd. and they provide a variety of training services for airlines and air crew, ranging from total training packages to straightforward selling of simulator time. Training facilities are located in Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark and at. Gardermoen, Oslo Airport, in Norway

History

In 1988, SAS Flight Academy opened the current training center in Stockholm at Arlanda Airport. In July 1990, SAS Flight Academy became a wholly owned subsidiary of the SAS Group.

Development of the SAS Flight Academy into a modern, customer-oriented training company started in 1985 through new, aggressive strategies intended to make SAS Flight Academy the leading training center in Europe.
As a result, 1985 to 1990 provided time for expansion and extensive pedagogical and technological developments.

Since the training center opened in 1988, the number of simulators has increased from six to sixteen. In August 2004, SAS Flight Academy opened its third training center in Oslo at Gardermoen and in 2006 they opened a center in Riga.

In 2007 SAS Group sold all its shares in Flight academy to Star Capital Partners. http://se.yhp.waymaker.net/sasgroup/release.asp?id=143533
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