Grove City Flight AcademyFAA-certificated Part 141 pilot school in Mercer, Pennsylvania

Grove City Flight Academy is listed by the FAA as a certificated 14 CFR Part 141 pilot school at 40 Oakley Kelly Dr in Mercer, Pennsylvania 16137, under air agency certificate GCIS103M with location designator GCIS. The certificate holder's legal name is Grove City Aviation; the FAA record carries the trading name Grove City Flight Academy. The certificate covers this single location in the FAA list. The address falls in the Hermitage, PA micropolitan statistical area.

The nearest public-use airport in the FAA's NASR database (effective 6 August 2026) is Grove City (29D) at Grove City, a non-towered field at 1,371 ft elevation, 0.2 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 High Flight Academy LLC in Butler, PA at 28 miles, followed by Aces Aviation in Beaver Falls at 28 miles. Pennsylvania has 30 FAA-listed Part 141 locations in this snapshot, ranking #4 of 51 states and territories, with the largest clusters in Allentown (3), Beaver Falls (3) and Blue Bell (2). 1 of the Pennsylvania entries has no dedicated page because the FAA record lacks a usable address.

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.