Rochester Community and Technical CollegeFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester Community and Technical College is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 851 30th Avenue SE in Rochester, Minnesota 55904, under air agency certificate GPAS452L with location designator GPAS. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Rochester, MN metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Rochester International (KRST), a towered field at 1,317 ft elevation, 8.2 miles from the school's listed address. The listed address is 8.2 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. 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 Great Planes Aviation in Rochester, MN at 7.6 miles, followed by Lake Elmo Aero in Lake Elmo at 71 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 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.