Ascent Aviation INC
Flight school in Duluth, Minnesota, where the main public airport is Duluth International (DLH). The FAA register lists 10 aircraft under this name, mostly Cirrus Design Corp SR20.
Website: ascentaviation.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
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How many aircraft does Ascent Aviation INC have?
10 aircraft are registered to it with the FAA as of October 21, 2026; aircraft it leases from their owners are not counted.
What does Ascent Aviation INC fly?
Mostly the Cirrus SR20, along with the Piper PA-28-151 and the American Champion Aircraft 7GCBC.
How old are Ascent Aviation INC's aircraft?
Built between 1974 and 2016; half were built in 2008 or earlier, so the typical one is about 18 years old.
Has Ascent Aviation INC had any accidents?
The NTSB recorded no accident or incident involving the aircraft registered to it today in the last 10 years.
Where is Ascent Aviation INC?
In Duluth, Minnesota; the main public airport there is Duluth International (DLH).
Are there FAA examiners near Ascent Aviation INC?
3 pilot examiners and 6 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles of its airport. See them by name
About Ascent Aviation INC from its own website, read October 21, 2026
Ascent Aviation is a Part 141 flight school based in Duluth, Minnesota, partnered with Lake Superior College. It offers a two-year professional pilot degree program with training in Private Pilot, Instrument, Commercial, Multi-Engine, and Certified Flight Instructor ratings, using a fleet of Cirrus SR-20 aircraft and Redbird flight simulators.
- Calls itself
- Ascent Aviation
- What it is
- Flight school
- Bases
- Duluth, MN DLH
- Aircraft it names
- Cirrus SR-20, Piper Seminole
- Services
- flight training, discovery flights, private pilot training, instrument rating, commercial pilot training, multi-engine training, certified flight instructor training
- Hours
- Mon - Sun 8:00a - 5:30p
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 141, examining authority
- Address
- Duluth, MN
- Telephone
- (218) 878-5115
- Elsewhere
- Facebook Instagram X
Written by the site from the pages of www.ascentaviation.com on October 21, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
3 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 3 for private pilot, 3 for commercial and instrument, 3 for flight instructor; 3 for airplanes, 3 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for seaplanes. Also nearby: 2 sport aviation examiners, 6 aviation medical examiners, 3 mechanic examiners, 1 airworthiness representative (maintenance), 2 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 2 engineering representatives, 2 administrative pilot examiners.
- Brian Alan Bird private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Monaco Aviation · Duluth, MN (0 nm) · (218) 340-2425 · [email protected]
- Paul Klomhaus private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Superior, WI (10 nm) · (920) 915-1200 · [email protected]
- William Stone private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Cloquet Carlton County Airport · Cloquet, MN (15 nm) · (218) 451-0542 · [email protected]
All 21 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Its aircraft and their safety record from the FAA register and the NTSB
10 aircraft are registered to Ascent Aviation INC today, mostly Cirrus SR20. Built between 1974 and 2016; half of them in 2008 or earlier, so the typical one is about 18 years old. 1 is a twin-engine aeroplane.
All 10 aircraft, each with its own page
The NTSB recorded no accident or incident involving these aircraft in the last 10 years.
Only the aircraft registered to Ascent Aviation INC today are counted, wherever they were flying and whoever was flying them, including any accident before the school owned them; aircraft a school leases from their owners are registered to those owners and are not. A school that flies more hours will show more; nobody publishes those hours, so this is a record, not a score. Compare with the other training organisations in Minnesota.
Other flight schools nearby within about 15 miles
- Lake Superior College 3 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme, Duluth
- Superior Flying Services LLC 5 aircraft · flight school, Superior, 12 miles away
Compare every school in Minnesota: fleets, aircraft ages and safety records side by side. Each school is placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre when it has none.
Connections how this company links to the rest of the register
- Duluth, MN · where it registers its aircraft
- Duluth International · DLH
- Sky Harbor Airport · DYT
- Minnesota 6,915 aircraft registered
- Ascent Aviation INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- 10 aircraft on the register · Cirrus Design Corp SR20
This entry comes from the FAA aircraft register (October 21, 2026). The FAA publishes no downloadable list of flight schools (its online finder covers only certificated Part 141 schools), so a company is listed here when its name says what it does; this one's name does not, but it owns a fleet of training aircraft and its own website says it gives flying lessons. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: the base, the website, what you do, your own pictures.