Shannon Air Museum

Shannon School of Aeronautics is a Flight School that operates at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The school's mission is to offer professional flight instruction for a variety of licenses, ratings and endorsements. To learn more about the flight school, skim through the web pages here and if you have any questions, please give us a call at 540-373-4431. Shannon School of Aeronautics operates under a Flight School Certificate issued by the Virginia Department of Aviation. All the aircraft are maintained strictly in accordance with all FAA and manufacturers requirements. Each aircraft is inspected by an FAA licensed Aircraft Maintenance Technician after each 50 hours of operation, and undergoes a complete service after each 100 hours of operation. All aircraft are certified for operations in instrument conditions. Shannon School of Aeronautics owns and operates a Redbird Advance Aviation Training Device. This flight simulator allows us to teach and evaluate VFR students under a variety of conditions for various contingencies that may not be duplicated in flight. It also allows us to teach almost all instrument tasks pursuant to instrument instruction, including currency requirements for pilots who hold an Instrument - Airplane rating. We are now expanding the training available on the simulator to include training tasks for Private Pilot student.