AAPA - Australian Airline Pilot Academy

Media Releases

PDF Official opening of Rex’s pilot academy (27 May 2010)
The Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regional Express (Rex), today celebrated the official opening of its brand new Wagga Wagga based campus.



Press Clippings

PDF Rex invests tremendous faith in Wagga - The Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga (28 May 2010)
PDF Reaching for the sky - The Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga (28 May 2010)
PDF Congratulatory bulletin for AAPA opening



Magazine Articles

PDF Official opening of Rex’s pilot academy – Wagga Business Issue 9
The Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA), a fully owned Rex subsidiary company, recently celebrated the official opening of its brand new $12M Wagga Wagga based pilot training academy campus.
PDF Ready for take-off – Aviator July 2010
It would be remiss of us, with our special flying school supplement this issue, not to mention one of the largest investments in Australian flight training in recent times.
PDF Rex opens new AAPA campus – Australian Flying July-August 2010
The new Wagga $12 million AAPA campus is a state of the art facility featuring an academic centre, flight training centre, on-campus accommodation, dining and recreational facilities.
PDF Rex opens new AAPA Campus - Aviation Business (Asia-Pacific) 31 May 2010
Rex established the AAPA (a wholly owned subsidiary of Regional Express Holdings Limited) as an inhouse training school in late 2007 in the wake of the widespread pilot shortage that swept through the airline industry.
PDF Rex pilot academy officially opened, ILS for Wagga Wagga - Australian Aviation 27 May 2010
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese officially opened Regional Express (Rex)’s Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA) at Wagga Wagga on May 27, at the same time announcing the federal government would provide just over $1 million to help fund an instrument landing system (ILS) for the regional NSW centre’s airport.



TV Coverage

wmv Official Opening of Rex's pilot training academy AAPA - Prime News (27 May 2010)
A dream was realised for Regional Express Airlines when Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese opened the Airlines’ $12 million Australian Airline Pilot Academy today.
wmv Official Opening of Rex's pilot training academy AAPA - Win News (27 May 2010)
It was a good 10 months ago that then New South Wales Primary Industries Minister Ian MacDonald turned the first sod for the Australian Airline Pilot Academy. Today state-of-the-art facilities replaced that bare pad as all celebrate for the official opening.