Combat Training Contractor Maintains a Safe, Dangerous Game

Top Aces, the provider of advanced adversary air (ADAIR) and Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) training to the world’s leading air forces, confirms that it has officially flown over one-hundred-thousand hours of accident-free, adversary air (ADAIR) and close air support (CAS) training. 

Top Aces Inc. CEO Paul Bouchard states: “We are all immensely proud to reach the 100,000-hour mark. It is a monumental milestone for Top Aces,” Bouchard adds, “It represents our uncompromising commitment to safety and excellence, which could only be achieved through the expertise and dedication of each and every Top Aces employee over the last 17 years.”  

Commencing flight-operations on 19 August 2005 with a fleet of eight, Dornier Alpha Jets, Top Aces’s inaugural mission consisted of training Royal Canadian Air Force pilots. Today, the company operates a fleet of more than one-hundred aircraft which provide air combat training to Canada, the U.S., Germany, Australia, and additional global forces.

On the week the company surpassed 100,000 hours, Top Aces was conducting numerous training missions across North America and Europe.

Subject operations included:

• Alpha Jets and Lear 35s providing air combat and NORAD training support in Canada.
• A-4 Skyhawks and Alpha Jets conducting ADAIR, Navy support and Air-to-Air gunnery training in Germany.
• A-4 Skyhawk missions equipped with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for an undisclosed European customer.
• F-16s providing ADAIR support for advanced tactical USAF training at Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base. 

With plans to expand its fleet and deliver on the increasing global demand for near-peer adversary air support, Top Aces looks to reach its next one-hundred-thousand hours even more quickly than it reached its first.

FMI: www.topaces.com