Moncton Flight College

The Moncton Flight College is a pilot training school based at the Greater Moncton International Airport in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada. MFC is the largest private flight school in Canada. The college has trained over 19,000 pilots from around the world since 1929. Moncton Flight College went into receivership on February 14, 2011, all aircraft operation were grounded for Liability Obligations, but as of February 22, 2011, a deal with Canlink aviation has been in the works to buy out the company and turn it from non-profit into a for-profit business.HistoryThe official organizational date of the Moncton Flying Club coincides with the date of the first Air Pageant, held July 1, 1929, to raise money for the airport. A group of citizens had decided that Moncton should be an air center of the Maritimes. The site for the first airport in Moncton was chosen, and work was started in April 1929. However, hard times followed shortly after the airport was complete with the onset of the Great Depression, and all flight activity virtually ceased. It was not until the late 1930s that flight training began again at the Moncton Flying Club. By the end of 1939, the Flying Club was officially incorporated and had a fleet of two privately owned planes.Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939 and the Moncton Flying Club was given the opportunity to run the "Elementary Flying Training School, Royal Canadian Air Force," (#21 E.F.T.S., R.C.A.F.) newly opened in Chatham, New Brunswick. Training got started at the school in early July 1941, immediately after the first intake of airmen. The Fleet Finch biplane used by the school was a hardy machine with a five-cylinder engine and fabric-covered wings and fuselage. By 1945, Moncton Flying Club was operating three Elementary Flying Training Schools across Canada.