ABOUT US
AERODYNE FLIGHT CENTER
Aerodyne Flight Center™ was founded in November 2004 by Doug Cox,
CFII, in Oregon City, OR, to provide personalized flight training
to customers interested in becoming safe, competent and
technically proficient pilots. Aerodyne moved to Scottsdale,
Ariz., in March 2012, and began operations as a division of
Aviation Resource Group, LLC. The name Aerodyne Flight Center™ was
officially trademarked by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in
August 2016.
Insurance underwriters regularly direct
customers to Aerodyne for training programs in Twin Cessna, Piper
Malibu, Cirrus and Columbia aircraft. Along with specialty
training, we also offer training at all levels from private pilot
certificates and instrument flight ratings to air transport pilots
and certified instructor programs. All programs adhere to
established national norms specified by the FAA for flight
training curriculum segments.
At Aerodyne, pilot training
takes place in your aircraft or ours. A unique feature of Aerodyne
is that our CFIs are available to travel directly to your location
to provide training in your aircraft anywhere in the continental
U.S. Our training aircraft includes a multi-engine Twin Cessna 310
with upgraded avionics. Instruction also takes place in our
state-of-the-art Redbird Flight Simulator.
In addition to
flight training, the company manages pre-owned aircraft sales and
features a pilot store carrying a variety of aviation supplies and
novelty items. Surplus aircraft parts are sold through our eBay
store.
In June 2021, Aerodyne’s operations relocated from
the Air Commerce Center to a new address at the Desert Center,
15953 N. Greenway-Hayden Loop, Suite K, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. We
invite you to stop by for a cup of coffee, check out our facility
and programs, and meet our staff.
Aviation Resource Group is
headquartered at the Scottsdale Airport. Our administrative office
and mailing address is 14700 N. Airport Drive, Suite 219,
Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
ABOUT THE OWNER
Douglas R. Cox, CFII, founder and owner of Aerodyne Flight Center, has been
working as a full-time certified flight instructor since August
1998. Since then, he has amassed more than 8,000 hours of flight
instructor time. Prior to establishing Aerodyne, Cox worked as
Chief Pilot and Chief Flight Instructor for Aurora Aviation in
Aurora, Ore. and Chief Flight Instructor for Pro Air in Bend, Ore.
He also spent several years as an instructor for Sim-Com in
Scottsdale, Ariz.
A native of Liverpool, England, Cox grew up
in a family interested in aviation. His paternal grandfather
served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II, working
as a ground sargeant servicing Avro Lancasters and other aircraft
as they performed bombing missions over Germany. Cox’s father was
an aeronautical engineer with Boeing Aircraft, relocating his
family from England to Seattle, Wash., when Cox was in grade
school. However, neither his grandfather nor his father ever
became pilots. Cox almost didn’t either!
In his teens and twenties, Cox worked in the photography business, owning and
operating a successful photo studio and frame shop for several
years in downtown Portland, Ore. One afternoon, while attending an
air show with his kids, he chatted with several instructors and
asked, “How do I learn to do this?” He left knowing he was going
to become a pilot. “It was so clear to me that that’s what I was
meant to do,” he said. Within months, Cox had closed his
photography studio, gotten a job handling baggage with Delta
Airlines (“just to get my foot in the door”) and enrolled in the
aviation degree program at Mount Hood Community College.
Today,
Cox is a CFI, CFII and MEI with vast experience in training pilots
at all levels. He has been specially trained as a Columbia factory
instructor. Since April 2004, he has served as a CSIP (Cirrus
Standardized Instructor Pilot). Customers travel from throughout
the United States to Scottsdale to receive pilot training from
Doug and to attend his 2 ½-day classes to prep for their written
private pilot and IFR exams. Doug also enjoys traveling around the
country to provide personalized training to pilots who want to get
instruction in their own aircraft.
Having flown from New York
to California, and from Alaska to Florida, Cox maintains that
“flying gives you more life.” He enjoys passing on his passion for
aviation to others. When not behind the controls of an airplane,
Doug can be found bicycling around the Valley, boating at Lake
Powell, volunteering as an usher at Impact Church, and spending
time with his longtime partner, Nancy. He is the father of two
sons and a daughter, and has fun spoiling his two adorable
granddaughters and grandson.
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