Egyptian Aviation Academy (EAA) is an aviation training organisation that offers aviation programs for pilot, air traffic control, engineering and information technology training.
History Misr Flying Institute was established on 7 May 1932 under the name Misr Flying School by a Royal Decree that established the Misr Air Company, which later changed its name to EgyptAir. It was the duty of the new school to prepare pilots to fly Egypt Air aircraft and was based at Almaza airport (HEAZ). The high demand for this school encouraged Egypt Air to open a new school in Alexandria in July 1933.
On 22 November 1971 President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, issued a republican decree for the establishment of the National Civil Aviation Training Organization (NCATO) and Misr Flying Institute was subordinated from Egypt Air to NCATO. It is considered the first regional institute for training pilots in the field of Civil Aviation, not only in Egypt but in the Middle East.
The EAA has become a leading organisation in the field of regional and international Civil Aviation Training, providing its graduates an Egypt High Education Ministry recognised certificate.
History Formal air force training in Egypt dates to 1938 when a forerunner to the Egyptian Air Academy was established on the grounds of the Royal Air Force-administered Almaza station near present-day Cairo International Airport. Resources provided to this school included instructors, technicians, training aircraft and curriculum. The first cadets were non-commissioned officers from the Egyptian Army and various police forces who were deemed medically fit for flying. This first school was divided into five "wings": Flying, Science, Technical, Cadets and Administration.
By 1951 the Almaza site had become inadequate for air force training purposes. That year a law was passed by the Kingdom of Egypt authorizing the creation of the Egyptian Air Academy near Bilbeis. Despite the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the expulsion of British forces and the subsequent rise of the Republic of Egypt, plans for the academy remained unchanged, with construction and renovation continuing through 1961. Future Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak served as a lecturer and later as director of the Egyptian Air Academy at various times during the 1950s and 1960s
Admission and curriculum Prospective Egyptian Air College cadets must be Egyptian "by heredity from forefathers," unmarried, no older than 21 have "good manners" and be "clean living." Once at the academy cadets are divided into "pilot" and "navigator" groups. Curriculum includes theoretical and practical flying, administration and humanities, computer science and foreign languages.
Upon graduation both pilots and navigators receive bachelor's degrees, commissions in the Egyptian Air Force and certifications in their respective fields of study. Graduating pilots also receive an internationally recognized commercial pilot's license.Condition of Joining the Air Academy (accessed 25 January 2012)
Directors The following senior officers have served as Director of the Air Academy: 1954 to 1961 Madkoor Abo-Alezz 1961 to 1963 Ali Hasan Emam 1963 to 1967 Abdel-Hamid Daghady 1967 Yahia Saleh Al-Aidaros 1967 to 1969 Hosni Mubarak 1969 to 1973 Mahmoud Shaker 1973 to 1974 Ibrahim Shaker 1974 to 1981 Abdel-Alim Ahmed Abdel-Alim 1981 to 1983 Ali Othman Zico 1984 to 1987 Fakhry Fadl-Alla Gahramy 1987 to 1989 Ahmed Abdellatif Ahmed 1989 Alaa Rahmy 1989 to 1990 Kamal Ezzat 1990 to 1993 Alaa Rahmy 1993 to 1997 Osama Abdel-Ghany Sakr 1997 to 2000 Magdy Galal Sharawi 2000 to 2013 unknown 2013 Abd-El Moneam Hassan Shouman
See also Egyptian Air Defense Academy Egyptian Naval Academy
References
External links Egyptian Air Academy Human Rights Watch: The Repression of Academic Freedom in Egyptian Universities.