Classic Aviation INC
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator Z5VA, overseen by the FAA office coded CE01. 1 aircraft is listed on the certificate, mostly SR-20. Based in Pella, Iowa, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: flyclassicaviation.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Classic Aviation INC from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Classic Aviation, Inc. is a fixed-base operator at Pella Municipal Airport in Iowa since 1988. It provides flight instruction, aircraft maintenance (as a Cirrus Authorized Service Center), aircraft rental, charter services, aircraft management, and commercial aerial photography.
- Calls itself
- Classic Aviation, Inc.
- What it is
- Fbo
- Bases
- Pella, IA PEA
- Aircraft it names
- Cessna 172, Cherokee 140, Piper J-3 Cub, American Champion Citabria, Beech Duchess, Cirrus SR20 GTS
- Services
- flight training, aircraft maintenance, aircraft rental, charter, aircraft management, aerial photography, fuel, hangar
- Hours
- Monday–Saturday 7:00 AM–Dusk, Sunday 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 145, Cirrus Authorized Service Center
- Founded
- 1988
- Address
- Pella, IA
- Telephone
- +16416289393
- Elsewhere
Written by the site from the pages of flyclassicaviation.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate and aircraft the company owns. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 8 not heard lately, 4 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Hiring 1 opening on Classic Aviation INC's own website
- Line Service Professional · Pella, Iowa · hourly pay
Read from the employer's site; applications go there. Every aviation opening.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Cirrus SR20 1 on the certificate
- Cirrus Design Corp 1 on the certificate
- Pella, IA · where it registers its own aircraft
- Pella Municipal · PEA
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- Classic Aviation INC 12 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 1 aircraft listed · designator Z5VA
- N853DB · Cirrus Design Corp SR20
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/classic-aviation-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 1 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
SR-20 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N853DB | Cirrus Design Corp SR20 | Classic Aviation INC | 2006 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Sunday at 11:37 pm, last near Pella Municipal, in the air then |
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