This page represents the out of business flight school which closed around 1990.
DEFUNCT FLIGHT SCHOOL
HAL Aviation was a flight school based at Malden Municipal Airport in Malden, Missouri, USA. It provided basic flight training in Part 61 and Part 141 for Private Pilot up to and including ATP (Airline Transport Pilot).
Courses included ground school, simulator, and aircraft training for Private and Commercial Pilot Licenses with an Instrument Rating in single-engine and multi-engine land fixed wing and helicopter. CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) and CFII (Certified Flight Instructor - Instrument) were also available, as was a full course in ATP (Airline Transport Pilot). Modest on and off campus housing was provided.
The school fleet included about 30 airplanes, that were mostly single-engine Cessnas (150,152,and 172), Pipers (Arrow, Cherokee, Cherokee-6), and a twin-engine Piper Senaca, as well as a twin-engine Beech Dutchess.
The airfield was previously a training field for the United States Air Force and had 5 runways, 3 of which were 5000 feet long. Runways were as follows - 18/36, 22/4 L & R, and 13/31 L & R. The field was also equipped with a VORTAC with DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) for a full ILS (Instrument Landing System) approach. Radio communication was by an uncontrolled unicom system.
The flight school opened near the end of the Vietnam War and closed around the year 1990. High fuel cost, at that time, and other unrelated problems, caused the school to lose its Part 141 Charter and it soon went into bankruptcy, before finally closing in 1991.
