Norwegian Aviation College was a flying school with its base at Bardufoss Air Station

Bardufoss Air Station

Bardufoss Air Station is located in the municipality of Målselv in Troms county in Northern Norway. It is the location for the 139th Air Wing and two helicopter squadrons; the 337 Squadron operating Lynx MK 86 for the Norwegian Coast Guard and the 339 Squadron equipped with Bell 412SPs...

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. SAS’s most experienced airline pilot

Aviator

An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...

s/instructor

Flight instructor

A flight instructor is a person who teaches others to fly aircraft. Specific privileges granted to holders of a flight instructor qualification vary from country to country, but very generally, a flight instructor serves to enhance or evaluate the knowledge and skill level of an aviator in pursuit...

s participated in selecting the location, designing the training facilities, selecting the equipment and in the design of the training programmes and the follow-up.
This, coupled with a rigorous testing and selection of the applicants, had resulted in a ab-initio pilot training programme, unique in the aviation industry.

Current issue

Norwegian Aviation College was supported financially by SAS, but around 2004 SAS wanted to cut the support.