Skymates INC
Flight school in Grand Prairie, Texas, as its own website says (the FAA register gives a company agent's address in Wilmington, Delaware), where the main public airport is Grand Prairie Municipal (GPM). The FAA register lists 7 aircraft under this name, mostly Piper PA-44-180.
Website: skymates.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
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How many aircraft does Skymates INC have?
7 aircraft are registered to it with the FAA as of October 21, 2026; aircraft it leases from their owners are not counted.
What does Skymates INC fly?
Mostly the Piper PA-44-180, along with the Cessna 172S and the Piper PA-34-200.
How old are Skymates INC's aircraft?
Built between 1974 and 2002; half were built in 2002 or earlier, so the typical one is about 24 years old.
Has Skymates 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 Skymates INC?
In Grand Prairie, Texas; the main public airport there is Grand Prairie Municipal (GPM).
Are there FAA examiners near Skymates INC?
40 pilot examiners and 40 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles of its airport. See them by name
About Skymates INC from its own website, read October 21, 2026
Skymates Flight Academy is an FAA Part 141 flight school located in Grand Prairie, Texas, offering pilot training courses from private pilot through airline transport pilot level. The school trains international and domestic students and has trained over 3,000 pilots in 28 years.
- Calls itself
- Skymates Flight Academy
- What it is
- Flight school
- Bases
- Grand Prairie, TX KPGM
- Aircraft it names
- Cessna 172, Piper Pa44
- Services
- flight training, private pilot training, instrument rating, commercial pilot training, multi-engine training, airline transport pilot training, certified flight instructor training
- Hours
- Open 24/7
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 141, SEVP
- Address
- Grand Prairie, TX
Written by the site from the pages of skymates.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 Out of date or wrong?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
40 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 40 for private pilot, 40 for commercial and instrument, 30 for airline transport pilot, 36 for flight instructor, 5 for sport pilot, 4 for type ratings; 34 for airplanes, 28 for multi-engine airplanes, 7 for helicopters, 1 for gliders, 1 for balloons. Also nearby: 5 sport aviation examiners, 40 aviation medical examiners, 7 mechanic examiners, 10 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 19 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 25 engineering representatives, 6 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 105 training center evaluators, 151 aircrew program designees, 7 training center examiners, 7 administrative pilot examiners.
- Matthew David Morgan Evans private pilot, commercial and instrument, type ratings, commercial pilot, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, ground instructor; helicopters · Airbus Helicopters Inc · Grand Prairie, TX (0 nm) · (972) 754-7775 · [email protected]
- Poliana Guimaraes Perotto private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, type ratings, commercial pilot, private pilot (proficiency); helicopters · Grand Prairie Municipal Airport - KGPM · Grand Prairie, TX (0 nm) · (240) 917-5797 · [email protected]
- James Harry Lightfoot private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Arlington, TX (3 nm) · (817) 721-0091 · [email protected]
- Jolynn Marie Davila private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Arlington, TX (3 nm) · (817) 394-8182 · [email protected]
- Keith Douglas Weems private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Arlington, TX (3 nm) · (817) 944-8003 · [email protected]
- Terry Strange private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Arlington, TX (3 nm) · (909) 553-3694 · [email protected]
- Elizabeth Brassaw private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Bedford, TX (10 nm) · (801) 808-4864 · [email protected]
- Carol Lynn Walker private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; airplanes, gliders · Midlothian, TX (13 nm) · (214) 948-0440 · [email protected]
All 422 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.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- 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
7 aircraft are registered to Skymates INC today, mostly Piper PA-44-180. Built between 1974 and 2002; half of them in 2002 or earlier, so the typical one is about 24 years old. 5 are twin-engine aeroplanes.
All 7 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 Skymates 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 Texas.
Other flight schools nearby within about 15 miles
- Aviator Air Flight School LLC 10 aircraft · flight school, Grand Prairie
- Dal Tex Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school, Arlington, 4 miles away
- Texas Soaring Association INC 13 aircraft · flying club, Midlothian, 15 miles away
- Gpm Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school, Colleyville, 15 miles away
Compare every school in Texas: 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
- Grand Prairie, TX · where it registers its aircraft
- Grand Prairie Municipal · GPM
- Texas 29,882 aircraft registered
- Skymates INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- 7 aircraft on the register · Piper PA-44-180
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.