Northwestern Michigan CollegeFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Traverse City, Michigan
Northwestern Michigan College is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 2600 Aero-Park Drive in Traverse City, Michigan 49686, under air agency certificate JZ8S260Q with location designator JZ8S. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Traverse City, MI metropolitan statistical area.
The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Cherry Capital (KTVC), a towered field at 624 ft elevation, 0.5 mile from the school's listed address. The listed address is on or beside the airfield, which is the usual arrangement for a Part 141 operation flying from its own ramp. It is the only public-use airport within 10 miles of the address.
No other Part 141 location appears in the FAA list within 100 miles, so a student here has no certificated alternative without relocating, which is worth weighing against a Part 61 instructor nearby. Michigan has 11 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #21 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Battle Creek (1), Belleville (1) and Berrien Springs (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.
FAA record: Northwestern Michigan College
- FAA designator
- JZ8S
- Air agency certificate
- JZ8S260Q
- Locations on certificate
- 1 FAA-listed location
- City / state
- Traverse City, Michigan
- Listed address
- 2600 Aero-Park Drive, Traverse City, MI 49686Google MapsApple Maps
- Metro area
- Traverse City, MI
- Nearest public airport
- KTVC Cherry Capital, Traverse City
- Distance to airport
- 0.5 mi (0.8 km)
- Public airports in 10 mi
- 1
- Part 141 peers in 100 mi
- none listed
- Michigan total
- 11 FAA-listed locations (#21 of 51 states)
- FAA data updated
- 24 Aug 2026
Registry fields as reported by the FAA on 24 Aug 2026. Airport and peer distances computed from the geocoded address (Census rooftop match). Individuals named in the FAA record (liaison, accountable manager) are not published.
Northwestern Michigan College is the amber ring. Position from a Census rooftop match. The interactive chart adds KTVC as the amber circle.
Chart tiles: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap. Boundaries: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (public domain). School positions: US Census geocoder; airfields: FAA NASR.
Nearest other Part 141 schools
No other FAA-listed Part 141 location within 100 miles.
Straight-line distances between listed addresses. See all Michigan schools on the Michigan page or the national Part 141 directory.
What flight training costs in Michigan
State-level ranges from the Michigan flight school cost page; this school's own pricing is not in the FAA record. For the Part 141 versus Part 61 cost mechanics see Part 141 vs Part 61, and for the GI Bill's PPL gap see financing options.
Primary sources
- AV-Info Find a Facility: 14 CFR Part 141 Pilot Schools. Federal Aviation Administration, data updated 24 Aug 2026, captured 28 August 2026. https://www.faa.gov/av-info/facility-dashboard
- Part 141 pilot schools (regulatory overview). Federal Aviation Administration, accessed August 2026. https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airline_certification/pilotschools
- NASR 28-day subscription, airport data (APT_BASE), effective 6 August 2026. FAA Aeronautical Information Services, accessed August 2026. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/
- Census Geocoder (batch, Public_AR_Current benchmark). US Census Bureau, run 28 August 2026. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/