Amelia Reid Aviation

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Amelia Reid was a legendary flight instructor with over 55,000 logged flight hours and more than 4000 pilots personally trained. She won the AOPA Lawrence P. Sharples Award and was inducted in the National Association of Flight Instructors Hall of Fame. Amelia Reid died in 2001, but the school continues in operation, now owned by one of her former students.

Amelia Reid Aviation is a flight school at Reid Hillview Airport in San Jose, at the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Founded in 1960 by Amelia herself, and originally run out of the trunk of her 1959 Ford Mustang, it is believed to be the oldest continuously operating flight school in the USA.

Flight and ground training is offered for Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, as well as tailwheel endorsement and acrobatic (or aerobatic) flight training. Airplanes are also offered for rental.

The fleet includes Aeronca Champ, Taylorcraft L2, Citabria, Decathlon, Cessna 152 and 172 and Piper Arrow airplanes.

Some of the better known alumni of the flight school are Rod Machado(Web Site), Sean Tucker and Jason Dahl who was First Officer on the ill-fated United 93 flight on September 11, 2001.