Orange Coast CollegeFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Costa Mesa, California

Orange Coast College is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at Orange Coast College, 2701 Fairview Road in Costa Mesa, California 92629, under air agency certificate OC3S403L with location designator OC3S. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is John Wayne/Orange County (KSNA) at Santa Ana, a towered field at 56 ft elevation, 2.3 miles from the school's listed address. The listed address is 2.3 miles from that field, close enough that the aircraft are most likely based there, but confirm the training airport before comparing hourly rates. It is the only public-use airport within 10 miles of the address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists at least five other Part 141 locations; the closest is Helistream Inc in Costa Mesa, CA at 1.8 miles, followed by Orange County Flight Center Inc in Santa Ana at 2.2 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.