About Us
Our mission: To educate, enable, inspire and motivate our student pilots to achieve their aviation goalsMerseyflight is a Civil Aviation Authority approved pilot training organisation. We are the place to come whether you are looking for a one-off experience or have your sights set on a career flying aeroplanes.
Meet the team
Merseyflight’s strength is in it’s people. We invest in experienced, career instructors in order to deliver the highest quality, best value flight training. If you want to be a safe, knowledgeable and competent aviator then you’re in the right hands.
Neil Hazelhurst
Flight Instructor
Neil is a highly experienced and extremely well respected instructor with over 8000 hours and 20 years of experience. Neil is well known in the industry and is a career instructor. Works full time for Merseyflight.
Neil Williams
Flight Instructor
Another Neil and another experienced, career instructor. Neil W also has thousands of hours of teaching students to fly in his logbook and is the Chief Flying Instructor at Merseyflight.
Tania Prior
Flight Instructor & Examiner
Tania is a popular new addition to our growing instructor quota and brings a wealth of teaching experience to the Merseyflight team. Tania works full time and teaches the PPL, LAPL, IR(R), Night Rating and conducts flight tests.
Angus Whyte
Flight Examiner
Angus is an experienced Boeing 737 skipper and Merseyfight’s primary flight examiner. Firm but fair, Angus always puts his test candidates at ease. Angus is also a keen seaplane pilot.
Oliver James-Lowe
Flight Instructor
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Richard Parfect
Flight Instructor
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Richard Casey
Flight Instructor
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Ian Murphy
Flight Instructor & Examiner
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Jim Ellis
Flight Instructor
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Steve Dooley
Flight Instructor
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Primo Lonzardi
Flight Instructor & Examiner
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Kate Evans
Flight Instructor
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Our training fleet
Merseyflight operates a fleet of Piper PA-38 Tomahawk and Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft.
Piper PA-38 “Tomahawk”
 The Piper PA-38 Tomahawk is a two-seat, single engined aircraft designed and built specifically to teach people to fly.
It is a comparatively spacious aircraft with good all-round visibility and aerodynamics that foster good flying skills.
 During the design phase of the Tomahawk, Piper consulted the flight training community in order to develop this class-leading training aircraft.
Piper PA-28 “Cherokee”
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is the larger sibling of the Tomahawk.
The Cherokee is a ‘two plus two’ seater which also makes an excellent alternative training aircraft with a greater weight lifting ability.
The Cherokee variation of the PA-28 has a maximum landing weight of under a tonne which attracts only the same, cheaper landing fees as the Tomahawk.
Piper PA-28 “Warrior”
The Warrior variant of our PA-28 fleet is a genuine 4 seat aircraft with serious weight lifting ability and equipped for IFR flight.
Fitted with a Garmin GNS430 and twin G5 instruments to give a ‘glass cockpit’ feel, the Warrior is a ‘going places’ machine.
Comfortable and very capable, our flagship “Bravo Papa” is a strong favourite with both private hire and student pilots alike.
Our home
Merseyflight are based at Hawarden (Chester) airport.
Merseyflight is located at Aviation Park, CH4 0GZ; 4 miles SW of Chester, approximately 45 minutes from Manchester and 25 minutes from Liverpool.
On arrival at Aviation Park you will need to sign in at the security gate – Just let them know you are visiting Merseyflight.
Once through security, follow the signs for the Chocks Away Diner. Park in the free car park and enter the General Aviation Centre main entrance. Turn immediately left and follow the perimeter of the diner, bearing to the right, where you will find the flying school entrance.
Please note that only participants are allowed in the flying school. Accompanying guests can either relax in the diner or watch from the outside viewing park.
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