UK Military Flying Training System

UK Military Flying Training System
Founded	2008 (contract ends in 2033)
Country	United Kingdom
Type	Flying training design and delivery contract
Part of	Ministry of Defence
Head office	MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol
Contract partners	No. 22 Group (Royal Air Force) Ascent Flight Training Defence Equipment and Support
Website	ascentflighttraining.com
Aircraft flown
Trainer helicopter	Airbus Juno HT1 Airbus Jupiter HT1
Trainer	BAE Systems Hawk T2 Beechcraft Avenger T1 Beechcraft Texan T1 Embraer Phenom T1 Grob Prefect T1

The UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) takes UK armed forces aircrew from initial training through elementary, basic, and advanced flying training phases, preparing them for their arrival at their designated operational aircraft units. It is operated by Ascent Flight Training, a consortium of Lockheed Martin and Babcock International under a 25-year Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract for the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD), with oversight from the MoD. The airworthiness authority for each aircraft type, for example, is fulfilled by military and civilian staff within Defence Equipment and Support. Apart from the overall contract, the main elements of the system include fixed-wing elementary, multi-engine and fast-jet pilot training, rear crew training and rotary-wing (helicopter) training.