TRAIN WHERE THE AIRLINES FLY
Accelerated Fast Track and Part Time flight training at Eugene Airport — Class C airspace, precision approaches, and real-world radio work from your very first lesson.
Flight Training at Eugene Airport
Oregon Aero Academy trains pilots at KEUG — Eugene Mahlon Sweet Field — from our home in the Atlantic Aviation building on Boeing Drive. It's the same instruction, the same aircraft, and the same career-focused programs we've been running since 2015, now operating out of Oregon's second-busiest commercial airport.
Training at a towered Class D airspace changes what a student pilot walks away with. You'll talk to Clearance, Ground, Tower and Approach as a matter of routine, sequence with regional jets, fly published instrument procedures on the field you learned to fly at, and build the kind of comfort on the radio that a lot of pilots don't develop until well after their checkride. By the time you're sitting in an airline interview, the environment won't be new to you.
Why Train at KEUG
- Class D From Day One: Radio work is the single biggest source of anxiety for new pilots — and the fastest thing to become second nature when it's simply how every flight starts. Our Eugene students work with ATC on every lesson, not just on the occasional cross-country.
- Real Instrument Experience: Precision and non-precision approaches on the home field, radar vectors, and Willamette Valley weather that gives instrument students actual IMC instead of a lifetime under the hood. This is where the Instrument Rating earns its keep.
- A Professional Operating Environment: Sharing the pattern with airline and cargo traffic teaches habits that carry directly into a professional cockpit: precise pattern work, clean speed control, tight radio discipline, and situational awareness that's actually being tested.
- Room to Fly: Long, wide runways and full instrument approaches — plus fast access to some of the best training terrain in the country. Cross-countries take you to the Oregon Coast, the Cascades, the high desert, and Class C airspace at Portland, all within easy reach.
- Built Around Your Timeline: Every Oregon Aero Academy program is available at Eugene. Go full-time and fly daily on our Accelerated Fast Track schedule, or train part-time on a Part 61 curriculum that fits around work and school. Same instructors, same standards, different pace.
- Programs Available at Eugene:
- Accelerated Full Time Career Track + CMEL — Zero hours to CFI in approximately 11 months
- Accelerated Fast Track Private Pilot — 7 weeks
- Accelerated Fast Track Instrument Rating — 7 weeks
- Accelerated Fast Track Commercial Pilot — 15 weeks
- Accelerated Fast Track Multi Engine Add-On — 2 weeks
- Part Time Private, Instrument, Commercial & Multi Engine — Flexible Scheduling
- Self-Paced CFI, CFII, MEI
- Ground School — 1-on-1, every certificate and rating
For Eugene-Area Students
Eugene is a college town, and our schedule is built for it. Students at the University of Oregon, Lane Community College and Northwest Christian can train part-time around class schedules, or knock out a rating over summer break on the Fast Track.
Find Us
Atlantic Aviation Building
90454 Boeing Drive, 2nd Floor
Eugene, OR 97402
PH: 541-730-3345
Ready for Takeoff?
Whether you're chasing an airline career or finally checking off a lifelong goal, it starts with one phone call. Come see the operation, meet the instructors, and take a discovery flight over the Willamette Valley.