Aviation Training Academy

Aviation Training Academy, which brands itself ATA, focuses on training ground-support and fueling personnel and says its staff have served as consultants and expert witnesses. Its instructors include Walter P. Chartrand, a fuel-handling and quality-control specialist with more than 35 years' experience and a CAP 437 helideck inspector; DeborahAnn Cavalcante, who previously managed the NATA Professional Line Service Training program and has worked as an FBO trainer and IS-BAO auditor; and David M. Ware, who covers refinery, terminal and Canadian B836 fuel operations. The site does not give an address or founding year.

Its online store lists 17 courses priced from $87.95 to $550 per person. FBO titles include the 14 CFR 139 Fire Safety Training Program for supervisors ($545) and line service ($435), Fueling Operations: Fuel Handling and Quality Control ($435), Line Technician in a Day ($175.95), Aviation Customer Service Excellence Training (ACSET, $325), and single modules on ramp safety and security, quality-control procedures, filtration, fuel receipt, fuel farm operations and safe towing at $87.95 each. It also sells Part 139 audit preparation and auditor courses and a Canadian B836-22 fuel handling course ($550).

On-site training is ATA's other model: instructors come to the FBO and train on its own equipment, usually at a daily rate with no limit on attendees, and pricing is quoted by phone. Open seminars appear on its events page; one posted for May 2026 was a two-day 139.321 fire safety supervisor and quality-assurance seminar with a live fire-extinguisher exercise at Paulding County Airport in Georgia, hosted with Perry Brothers Aviation Fuels. Online seats are bought one person per transaction.