Hummingbird Aviation, LLCFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Hummingbird Aviation, LLC is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 13601 Pioneer Trail in Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55347, under air agency certificate Q5HS828K with location designator Q5HS. The certificate holder's legal name is Hummingbird Ventures LLC; the FAA record carries the trading names Hummingbird Aviation, LLC, Hummingbird Helicopters of Minnesota, LLC, AV8 Holdings, LLC, Hummingbird Helicopters, LLC and AV8 Flight School. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Flying Cloud (KFCM) at Minneapolis, a towered field at 906 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.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists at least five other Part 141 locations; the closest is Thunderbird Aviation Inc in Eden Prairie, MN at 0.4 miles, followed by Academy College in Bloomington at 7.5 miles. Minnesota has 12 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #19 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Bloomington (2), Duluth (2) and Eden Prairie (2).

The FAA record carries an agency phone number, (952) 944-2628, and an agency email, george@av8flight.com; it carries no website, so the contact details above are the only ones the FAA publishes for this location. 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.