Institute of AviationFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Savoy, Illinois

Institute of Aviation is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at Willard Airport, 1 Airport Road in Savoy, Illinois 61874, under air agency certificate UC2S208L with location designator UC2S. The certificate holder's legal name is Institute of Aviation at Parkland College; the FAA record carries the trading name Institute of Aviation. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Champaign-Urbana, IL metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is University of Illinois/Willard (KCMI) at Champaign/Urbana, a towered field at 755 ft elevation, 1.2 mile from the school's listed address. The listed address is 1.2 miles from that field, close enough that the aircraft are most likely based there, but confirm the training airport before comparing hourly rates. 2 public-use airports sit within 10 miles of the address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists 4 other Part 141 locations; the closest is Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN at 60 miles, followed by Purdue Aviation LLC in West Lafayette at 74 miles. Illinois has 15 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #15 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Centralia (2), Belleville (1) and Chicago (1).

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.