Joby Aviation AcademyFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Santa Cruz, California

Joby Aviation Academy is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 333 Encinal Street in Santa Cruz, California 95060, under air agency certificate JBYS391E with location designator JBYS. The certificate holder's legal name is Joby Aviation College; the FAA record carries the trading name Joby Aviation Academy. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Watsonville Municipal (KWVI) at Watsonville, a non-towered field at 163 ft elevation, 14 miles from the school's listed address. The listed address is 14 miles from that field, so it may be an administrative or campus address rather than the ramp; ask the school where its training aircraft are actually based. No public-use airport lies within 10 miles of the listed address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists at least five other Part 141 locations; the closest is Aerodynamic Aviation in San Jose, CA at 27 miles, followed by Nice Air in San Jose at 27 miles. California has 64 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #3 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in San Jose (6), Long Beach (4) and Riverside (4). 1 of the California entries has no dedicated page because the FAA record lacks a usable address.

The FAA record carries no agency phone, email or website for this location, so contact details have to come from the school directly. Certification under Part 141 means the FAA has approved the school's training course outlines, facilities and chief-instructor arrangements and inspects them; it is not a quality ranking, and it does not by itself mean the school is VA-approved for GI Bill funding or accredited for federal student aid.