D2 Flight AcademyFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in New Bern, North Carolina
D2 Flight Academy is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 820 Aviation Drive, Coastal Carolina Regional Airport in New Bern, North Carolina 28562, under air agency certificate 8TWS216L with location designator 8TWS. The certificate holder's legal name is Tradewind Aviation International, LLC.; the FAA record carries the trading names D2 Flight Academy and Tradewind Flight Services Inc.. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the New Bern, NC micropolitan statistical area.
The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Coastal Carolina Regional (KEWN), a towered field at 18 ft elevation, 0.3 miles 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 Air Agency 28504 Kinston Satellite in Kinston, NC at 36 miles, followed by Dillons Aviation Inc in Greenville at 43 miles. North Carolina has 23 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #7 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Greensboro (2), Asheville (1) and Carthage (1). 1 of the North Carolina entries has no dedicated page because the FAA record lacks a usable address.
The FAA record carries an agency phone number, (252) 636-0716, and an agency email, tradewind@coastalnet.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.
FAA record: D2 Flight Academy
- FAA designator
- 8TWS
- Air agency certificate
- 8TWS216L
- Locations on certificate
- 1 FAA-listed location
- City / state
- New Bern, North Carolina
- Listed address
- 820 Aviation Drive, Coastal Carolina Regional Airport, New Bern, NC 28562Google MapsApple Maps
- Micropolitan area
- New Bern, NC
- Nearest public airport
- KEWN Coastal Carolina Regional, New Bern
- Distance to airport
- 0.3 mi (0.6 km)
- Public airports in 10 mi
- 1
- Agency phone (FAA)
- (252) 636-0716
- Agency email (FAA)
- tradewind@coastalnet.com
- Part 141 peers in 100 mi
- 5, nearest 36 mi
- North Carolina total
- 23 FAA-listed locations (#7 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.
D2 Flight Academy is the amber ring; the navy pins are the 5 nearest Part 141 locations. Position from a Census rooftop match. The interactive chart adds KEWN 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
| School | City / state | Distance | Designator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Agency 28504 Kinston Satellite | Kinston, NC | 36 mi | 0202 |
| Dillons Aviation Inc | Greenville, NC | 43 mi | YJ4S |
| M2A Aviation Academy, LLC | Pikeville, NC | 59 mi | 4M2S |
| Aaa | Wilmington, NC | 75 mi | 134S |
| Blue Line Aviation LLC | Smithfield, NC | 83 mi | 8BLS |
Straight-line distances between listed addresses. See all North Carolina schools on the North Carolina page or the national Part 141 directory.
What flight training costs in North Carolina
State-level ranges from the North Carolina 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/