Yehia El Naggar (also known as Josh to his U.S. friends) is the latest graduate of Century Air's professional pilot program. Josh is from Cairo, Egypt, and at the age of 21, he ventured to the USA to pursue his dream of learning to fly and eventually becoming an airline pilot. Although he looked at a lot of schools, he decided to follow the advice of a colleague who highly recommended Century Air for his training. Josh says he's very glad he made that choice! With excellent English skills and a strong desire to achieve his goals, Josh earned his [...]

We are proud to announce that our Simulator Training Center is now operating out of a newly rennovated building at the Essex County Airport. For the past 10 years this training center was located on the other side of Passaic Avenue, but it was time to bring it closer to our flight training center. It is now within a short walk across the parking area for your convenience. Featuring the Frasca top-of-line real world simulators - this 2,300 sq foot training center has individual rooms for simulator sessions, offices, personal study rooms, classrooms and a very comfortable lounge for students [...]

Susana Restrepo recently completed the Professional Pilot course and is our first female international (M-1) student to earn her Commercial Pilot Certificate (single and multi-engine with an instrument rating). Throughout her training, she has performed to a level of excellence! Susana, age 20, came to the United States from Colombia only two years ago (with very few English skills) to take the training necessary to become a commercial pilot. She has achieved that goal, and so much more! Her English is now excellent and her piloting skills are too. She definitely takes after her father with her desire to fly. [...]

Congratulations to Vinicius Bouvier for doing a great job on his commercial flight test! Vinicius is the first student to graduate a course in the newly aquired Seneca aircraft. He is returning to Brazil after completing the professional pilot program - and is now the proud holder of a commercial multi-engine certificate. His goal is to work for an aviation company in his homeland and we wish him all the best. We know that his excellent flying skills will help him to land a great job! The Seneca is the newest addition to the Century Air fleet. This beautiful PA-34 [...]

Student pilot, Saki Chen (seen here with her instructor, Greg Adair), has been awarded the 2012 Dodie Riach Memorial Scholarship, which she intends to use toward obtaining her PPL. Saki hails from Sichuan, China. She has recently graduated from law school and has also passed the bar exam. She is a special contributor for several Chinese aviation magazines and plans to specialize in aviation and aerospace law. Saki completed her first solo flight in early May. Keep up the great work! We are proud to have you training with Century Air.

Congratulations to Charlotte Asdal, the youngest of five sisters who have graduated flight training courses with Century Air. Charlotte, 18, (above), achieved her private pilot license on February 10th and has already started working on her instrument rating. She will be graduating high school this spring, and is planning on attending the US Naval Academy in June, where she will be studying Arabic and hopes to eventually become a Foreign Area Officer. Charlotte will be the fourth sister to attend the US Naval Academy! Read more about the sisters below. They are a truly remarkable group of young women who [...]

In 2009, at the young age of 18, Marwan Omaira, came from Egypt on an M-1 Visa to attend professional flight training at Century Air. He received his private pilot certificate and instrument rating in one year, and then returned to Egypt. Marwan came back to Century Air last fall, and completed his professional training, achieving his commercial pilot certificate on December 18th. He has done a great job, and should be very proud of his accomplishments. He has also completed the ATP FAA Written Exam and is once again returning to his homeland - this time to apply for [...]

We are very proud to announce that Fred Hartman has accepted the position of Chief Flight Instructor for Century Air. Fred has been working as a part-time flight instructor with Century Air for the past four years, while he was also working as a full-time teacher in Hillsdale public school. He recently retired the public school after 32 years, and is now continuing his teaching career full-time in aviation. Fred began taking flight lessons many years ago, achieving his private certificate in 1979. After nearly twenty years, he decided that aviation would be his next career so he began instrument [...]

Anna Varvarkina arrived from Russia on July 4th in hopes of obtaining her private pilot certificate in only 7 weeks. While that was a very challenging goal in itself, she also needed to find a place to live, and a form of transportation on very limited funds. Anna quickly found a room for rent (7 miles from Caldwell Airport) and borrowed a bicycle to peddle her way to school every day. She worked extremely hard to achieve her goal, and passed her private pilot checkride on August 27th - the day before Hurricane Irene completely flooded New Jersey and shut [...]

Students can now learn the G1000 systems in the simulator and transition to the aircraft with complete confidence to operate the modern TAA equipment. There are only 65 of these “real” G1000 simulators in the world. The simulator is equipped with the GFC-700 autopilot and flight director, and offers a world-wide data base of airports, airline quality visuals and all weather (and flight) scenarios. This modern equipment offers a level of professionalism rarely found in general aviation and is utilized for both IFR and VFR training. During the months of Feb-March, we are offering free demonstrations to all pilots interested [...]