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Air Force Pilot Pipeline Hits 1,500 for the Year — A Number Flight Departments Watch

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An air force pilot rests on the wing of a plane
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The U.S. Air Force has met its target of graduating 1,500 pilots this fiscal year under a redesigned training program. For owners staffing flight departments, military output is one of the upstream sources feeding the pilot pool alongside civilian and airline tracks. A full class year at that scale is one more data point on where qualified crew will come from.

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With reporting from AVweb.

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