Bradley Flying Association
Flying club in Peoria, Illinois, where the main public airport is General Downing - Peoria International (PIA). The FAA register lists 2 aircraft under this name, mostly Cessna 172K.
Website: bradleyflying.org (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
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How many aircraft does Bradley Flying Association have?
2 aircraft are registered to it with the FAA as of October 21, 2026; aircraft it leases from their owners are not counted.
What does Bradley Flying Association fly?
Mostly the Cessna 172K, along with the Cessna 172S.
How old are Bradley Flying Association's aircraft?
Built between 1969 and 2003; half were built in 2003 or earlier, so the typical one is about 23 years old.
Has Bradley Flying Association had any accidents?
The NTSB recorded no accident or incident involving the aircraft registered to it today in the last 10 years.
Where is Bradley Flying Association?
In Peoria, Illinois; the main public airport there is General Downing - Peoria International (PIA).
Are there FAA examiners near Bradley Flying Association?
4 pilot examiners and 5 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles of its airport. See them by name
About Bradley Flying Association from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Bradley Flying Association is a not-for-profit flying club established in 1963 in the Peoria, Illinois area. It provides aircraft to members for personal flying and offers flight training through volunteer Certified Flight Instructors, with a mission to promote education in safety and aeronautics.
- Calls itself
- Bradley Flying
- What it is
- Flying club
- Bases
- Bartonville, IL KPIA
- Aircraft it names
- Cessna 172K, Cessna 172P, Cessna 172S, Cessna 172R
- Services
- flight training, aircraft rental
- Founded
- 1963
- Address
- 6100 W Everett McKinley Dirksen Parkway, Byerly Aviation Terminal #312, Bartonville, IL, 61607
- Telephone
- (309) 697-0311
- [email protected]
Written by the site from the pages of www.bradleyflying.org on October 13, 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 Out of date or wrong?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
4 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 4 for private pilot, 4 for commercial and instrument, 2 for airline transport pilot, 2 for flight instructor, 1 for sport pilot, 2 for type ratings; 3 for airplanes, 3 for multi-engine airplanes. Also nearby: 1 sport aviation examiner, 5 aviation medical examiners, 2 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 1 airworthiness representative (manufacturing), 1 training center examiner.
- Jeffrey Allen private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, type ratings, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Jet Air, Inc. · Galesburg, IL (37 nm) · (309) 221-3577 · [email protected]
- Joseph Lawrence Kinzer private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Peru, IL (48 nm) · (262) 573-6115 · [email protected]
- Thomas James Norton private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, type ratings, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, military competency, foreign pilot certificates; multi-engine airplanes · Peru, IL (48 nm) · (407) 951-2901 · [email protected]
- Dennis Dwain Taft private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Springfield, IL (49 nm) · (217) 553-6154 · [email protected]
All 14 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.
- 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.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
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
2 aircraft are registered to Bradley Flying Association today, mostly Cessna 172K. Built between 1969 and 2003; half of them in 2003 or earlier, so the typical one is about 23 years old.
All 2 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 Bradley Flying Association 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 Illinois.
Other flight schools nearby within about 15 miles
- Central Illinois Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school, Peoria
- Straight Tail Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school, Peoria
Compare every school in Illinois: 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
- Peoria, IL · where it registers its aircraft
- General Downing - Peoria International · PIA
- Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport · 3MY
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- 2 aircraft on the register · Cessna 172K
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