Kirtland Flight CenterFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Kirtland Flight Center is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 3400 Clark Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico 87117, under air agency certificate AH8S008Q with location designator AH8S. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Albuquerque, NM metropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Albuquerque International Sunport (KABQ), a towered field at 5,355 ft elevation, 5.7 miles from the school's listed address. The listed address is 5.7 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. The Census geocoder could not match the FAA street address to a rooftop, so this distance is measured from the 87117 ZIP-code centroid and is approximate. It is the only public-use airport within 10 miles of the address.

Within 100 miles the FAA lists 4 other Part 141 locations; the closest is Bode Aviation Inc in Albuquerque, NM at 6.3 miles, followed by The Balloon Flight School in Albuquerque at 11 miles. New Mexico has 7 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #29 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Albuquerque (5), Portales (1) and Santa Teresa (1).

The FAA record carries an agency phone number, (505) 846-1072, and an agency email, joanna.erni@us.af.mil; 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.