As part of its expansion strategy, the Gurugram-based RedBird Flight Training Academy is aiming to grow its fleet to more than 60 aircraft and offer training programmes from 10 airports by the end of FY24

India’s largest flying school, RedBird Flight Training Academy is looking at investing $6 million in ramping up training infrastructure to keep up with the growing demand for pilots in the world’s fastest-growing aviation market over the next five years.

“We have today a budget of nearly $6 million which we have kept aside. This is our money, excluding any external financing that we may be raising from banks or other financial institutions,” chairman of Tenon Group, the parent company of RedBird, Maj. (Retd) Manjit Rajain told Business Today in an interview.

The company which currently has a fleet of 40 aircraft and six flight training schools in India and one in Sri Lanka is confident of significantly expanding its infrastructure by the end of FY24.

“By the end of this fiscal, we will likely have a fleet of more than 60 planes operating from at least 10 airports,” said Rajain.