Take Flight Aviation trains pilots from across Bergen County, New Jersey, including Paramus, Mahwah, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Hackensack, Fair Lawn, Oakland and Englewood. Our school is at Orange County Airport (KMGJ) in Montgomery, NY, about 45 minutes from Mahwah and about an hour from Paramus via Route 17 north, the Thruway and I-84.
Why Bergen County, NJ pilots train with Take Flight Aviation
Bergen County sits under the New York Class B airspace around Newark, LaGuardia, JFK and Teterboro. Training out of Orange County Airport gives you a quieter, non-towered home field where more of every lesson is spent flying instead of waiting, while Stewart (SWF) is minutes away when you are ready for towered and Class C airspace. Pilot certificates are issued by the FAA, not by a state, so New Jersey residents train and test with us exactly as New York students do.
- FAA Part 141 approved Private Pilot, Instrument Rating and Commercial Pilot courses, plus Part 61 options.
- All-Diamond fleet of 14 aircraft, including the DA40 NG and DA42 NG with Garmin G1000 avionics.
- Full-motion Redbird FMX simulator for instrument and procedures training.
- 90%+ first-time checkride pass rate school-wide, with 175 to 200 checkrides a year.
- The only Factory Approved Diamond Training Center in the U.S., with an in-house Diamond Authorized Service Center.
Training for Bergen County, NJ students
Many Bergen County students make the drive for our Part 141 programs, the all-Diamond fleet and the 3-week accelerated CFI course, and schedule two or three lessons per visit. Career-track students often enroll in our Zero-to-Pro program to train several days a week.
- Discovery Flights – take the controls on your first lesson.
- Private Pilot, Instrument Rating and Commercial Pilot
- Multi-Engine and CFI / CFII
- Zero-to-Pro career program
- Diamond aircraft maintenance and aircraft sales
Visit us
Take Flight Aviation, 49 Hangar Road, Hangar D, Montgomery, NY 12549 (Orange County Airport, KMGJ). Call 845-457-4188 or send us a message to schedule a tour or a discovery flight.