ABOUT US
FLIGHT TRAINING, AIRFIELD MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SERVICES
Doss Aviation, Inc. has maintained competency in performing air terminal management, transient alert services, and flight operations requirements since 1979. We were awarded the USAF Flight Screening Program in support of the Air Training Command (ATC) at Hondo, TX in 1979 and retained it for 21 years until it was terminated by the Govenment in 2000. This program emcompassed in-flight instruction, safety, weather forecasting services, facilities and grounds maintenance, flight scheduling, flight following (VFR local), aircraft maintenance, and refueling services. We are proud of our superb record of over 118,000 accident-free flying hours while training over 5,900 Air Force pilot candidates.
Doss Aviation, Inc. is entering a new era of Air Force Flight training with the April 2006 award of a 10-year, fixed-price Air Education and Training Command (AETC) contract to provide initial flight screening to all USAF aviation candidates. We provide a turn-key operation in a contractor-owned and operated, state-of-the-art facilities in Pueblo , Colorado that will support up to 1,765 students per year. Our Pueblo site offers a USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training-like environment to include 44 modern, contractor-owned Diamond DA-20 aircraft, flight rooms, classrooms, auditorium, 195 lodging rooms, indoor and outdoor fitness facilities, 24-hour security, full service meals, ISO 9001:2000 certified aircraft maintenance, and contractor provided academic and flight instruction.
At Phillips Army Airfield (PAAF), Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), MD, we have performed all airfield management and aircraft maintenance services since 1991. In addition to the aircraft (UH-1) maintenance requirement, we:
- Maintain all ground support equipment (GSE)
- Maintain Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE)
- Maintain runway and approach lighting systems
- Provide transient alert services and refueling
- Provide passenger/freight transportation
- Operate the air traffic control tower
- Perform the flight operations and dispatch functions to include weather observation.
- Perform flight planning functions
- Maintain the Flight Information Publication (FLIP) library.
