"Your dreams to become a pilot can begin at Hesston College. As you improve your piloting skills, you will find your people and decision-making skills strengthening. This personal touch to the fulfillment of your aviation dream comes within a Christ-centered community." |
Highlights
During Fly Larks Week, your first week as an aviation student at Hesston College, you’ll find yourself in a plane’s cockpit. We’re serious about training pilots, and we don’t waste any time helping students earn one or more of the certificates we offer - private pilot, commercial, and instructor training with instrument and multi-engine ratings. Hesston offers you flight training and all applicable ground schools as preparation for FAA knowledge exams and check rides.
We also host an annual Aviation as Mission event. Several of our graduates return to our hangar at the Newton City-County Airport to share about their professional and spiritual journeys and how they live their faith through their work. In recent years speakers have included Roger Yoder, a captain with American Airlines; Kurt Neuenschwander, chief pilot for AirServ International; and John Reimer, a demonstration pilot for Cessna. The weekend includes a rally with several flight skills contests, and a wiener roast at Dan Miller's house. Here are some photos and stories from Aviation as Mission
The sky is the limit
More than 500 pilots have trained at Hesston College, and today many of our alumni fly or work for America West, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, TWA, United and US Airways. Others are with national and regional airlines like Allegheny, Air Midwest, American Eagle, Atlantic Southeast, Horizon, Mesaba, Sky West and World Airways. Our Hesston College Alumni fly for dozens of corporate and charter companies, serve with Mission aviation Fellowship and other humanitarian organizations, and work as air traffic controllers or in aircraft maintenance and avionics. They are flight instructors at major universities and schools of aviation, do aerial application, work as FAA inspectors, and serve with Medivac.
Hesston’s courses are designed to set you soaring into an aviation career. After two years at Hesston, you will have had the opportunity to earn an Associate of Applied Arts and Sciences degree in Aviation and completed at least 60 college credit hours. Many of our graduates start out as flight instructors. Mission work, corporate aviation, aircraft charter, and air freight are other possibilities. You can also use your Hesston degree as the foundation of a bachelor's degree in business, aviation management, aero-nautical technology or other specialties. Cooperating programs with four-year institutions offer ideal opportunities for Hesston graduates to complete their bachelor's degrees.
Hesston College's Outcomes
Hesston College seeks to help each student become:
- a competent communicator
- a critical thinker
- a socially responsible person
- an integrative thinker
- a person of biblical understanding and faith