About CK Aviation
CK Aviation is a niche high-end aircraft sales and flight training organisation. We look after a small number of clients providing a full service from aircraft procurement and sales to after sales support – offering high quality flight training across the spectrum from ab-initio PPL right through to the Instrument Rating. This means we can provide our clients with every licence and rating they require to fly their own high performance aircraft. We have two in house Cirrus Standardised Instructor Pilots (CSIPs), a latest generation SR22T G6 and a Cirrus Training Centre. Our CAA Approved Training Organisation and can provide courses for PPL(A), Night, IR(R), CB-IR & IR. We are also a renowned aircraft broker and are very happy to offer advice to customers looking to purchase their first aircraft or upgrade.
Official Cirrus Training Centre
Authorised Cirrus Training Centre with two in house CSIPs and two TCIs
Oxford Airport
Professional, modern training facilities located at Oxford Airport
Experienced Aircraft Sales Broker
Long standing experience selling Cirrus aircraft
Meet The Team
Charlie Kimbell
Charlie has over 25 years’ experience in aviation. He has clocked up in excess of 13,000 hours as a commercial pilot, which has included flying the Airbus A320/A321/A330 family at Monarch Airlines, the four engine A340-600 at Virgin Atlantic and more recently as the Captain of a privately-owned Gulfstream jet.
Charlie has over 25 years’ experience in aviation. He has clocked up in excess of 13,000 hours as a commercial pilot, which has included flying the Airbus A320/A321/A330 family at Monarch Airlines, the four engine A340-600 at Virgin Atlantic and more recently as the Captain of a privately-owned Gulfstream business jet.
Charlie has a longstanding interest in General Aviation, having been a flight instructor since his early twenties. Following a Royal Air Force flying scholarship he became an instructor at Northants School of Flying—his family business. Here, Charlie helped to develop the business taking it from an ailing company with 3 aircraft to a busy flying school with 11 aircraft and 400 members. During this time Charlie specialised in vintage tailwheel and aerobatic instruction.
A passion for aerobatics led to the establishment of his own training business, using a Pitts Special S2C, where he taught AOPA aerobatic courses and Basic to Advanced level competition flying. He also offered Upset Recovery Training (UPRT) and Advanced Handling courses to pilots looking to improve their general handling. An enthusiastic competitor himself, Charlie holds two national aerobatic championship titles.
For five years, Charlie worked closely with Cirrus Aircraft UK as an aircraft sales representative and factory approved CSIP (Cirrus Standardised Instructor Pilot). Charlie is Head of Training for the CK Aviation Services Approved Training Organisation and instructs for the PPL, Night, Aerobatic and Instrument Ratings and is also a Class Rating and Instrument Rating Examiner.
Charlie’s interests include cooking, mountain biking, motorcycling and vintage aircraft which is a particular interest being current on the Harvard and Spitfire.
Charlie is available to provide subject matter expert consultation for:
Aircraft Sales
Aircraft Procurement
Aircraft Management
Flight Training
Examination and Revalidation
Charlie holds a BSc in Business & Management Consultancy from Southampton University
Isabel Rutland
Isabel is a qualified accountant who used to work in the City in private equity. She started flying in 2016 and is now an ATPL holder and Cirrus CSIP. Our mission at CK Aviation is to take driven individuals with no prior flight experience and take them from PPL to flying their own high performance aircraft. Isabel is a real advert for what can be achieved and she is keen to show clients how effective progression can
Isabel is a qualified accountant who used to work in the City in private equity. She started flying in 2016 and is now an ATPL holder and Cirrus CSIP. Our mission at CK Aviation is to take driven individuals with no prior flight experience and take them from PPL to flying their own high performance aircraft. Isabel is a real advert for what can be achieved and she is keen to show clients how effective progression can be with the right support, equipment and training.
Isabel has amassed over 700 hours on Cirrus aircraft alone. She holds an Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence and ratings on the Piper M600, various TBM models and the Pilatus PC-12. She has flown every variant Cirrus SR model and is the perfect advisor for prospective clients on learning to fly, as well as the pros and cons of each aircraft.
Isabel is passionate about aerobatics competing in UK aerobatic competitions in a Pitts Special and is current on the Harvard IIB and the P51D Mustang.
Nils Jamieson
Nils has over 30 years’ experience in aviation and is currently a Boeing Technical Pilot and Training Captain for a major UK airline. A keen aviator with over 8500 hours, he is also qualified to fly helicopters and is an aircraft owner and flying instructor. As well as flying, Nils has undertaken a number of other aviation roles
Nils has over 30 years’ experience in aviation and is currently a Boeing Technical Pilot and Training Captain for a major UK airline. A keen aviator with over 8500 hours, he is also qualified to fly helicopters and is an aircraft owner and flying instructor. As well as flying, Nils has undertaken a number of other aviation roles, including in Aerodrome Fire Fighting, Air Traffic Services, Aerodrome planning and licensing and Operations Management.
As a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Nils worked for several years in the FMCG sector as a Design Engineer, Production Manager and latterly Internal Auditor. International audit experience led to work as a Quality Manager for a number of aircraft engineering firms in the UK and Nils continues to act as an external auditor or Compliance Monitoring Manager for a private jet operator and four flight training schools.
Nils’ other consultancy work has included aerodrome planning projects and studies of the impact of planned construction on aviation activity at several UK aerodromes. He has also acted as an aviation SME for planning applications concerned with or impacting on General Aviation.
As one of a team of volunteer Regional Safety Officers working for GASCo, Nils visits most small UK aerodromes to deliver flight safety education presentations to private pilots. He also presents on the CAA Airspace Infringement Awareness Courses and is involved in the development of General Aviation safety education material. As part of the GASCo team Nils has been awarded the 2020 Sword of Honour from the Honourable Company of Air Pilots for his continued contribution to flight safety.
Nils has recently been invited to join the Royal Air Force as a reservist to assist with the entry into service for the Wedgetail early warning aircraft Boeing 737 AEW&C.
Nils is available to provide subject matter expert consultation for:
Part M and ML Engineering Approvals
Part ATO and DTO Approvals
Planning Applications affecting GA Aerodromes
GA Organisation SMS, Compliance Management and Part OPS Audit
General Aviation Aerodrome Operations
Nils is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society MRAeS & holds a MEng ACGI from Imperial College in London.
Dave Smith
Dave is Airbus Type Rating Examiner and Instructor for Easyjet with over 14,000 hours. He combines his great technical knowledge and personal skills to make an exemplary and respected trainer. We are privileged to have Dave on board as an instructor to pass on his experience and expertise to our clients.
Dave is Airbus Type Rating Examiner and Instructor for Easyjet with over 14,000 hours. He combines his great technical knowledge and personal skills to make an exemplary and respected trainer. We are privileged to have Dave on board as an instructor to pass on his experience and expertise to our clients.
Dave flew solo in 1982 with the Air Cadets at Royal Air Force Halton. A RAF Flying Scholarship at White Waltham followed allowing him to obtain his PPL.
While working as a design draughtsman, Dave utilised his spare time to further his flying qualifications and experience. Weekends and evenings would be spent instructing at the local flying club and with the Air Cadet’s 613 VGS where he volunteered for twenty one years and was awarded an A1 instructor Category by Central Flying School of the Royal Air Force.
Dave started his commercial flying career with Air UK on the Fokker 50 and Fokker 100. This was followed by eighteen years at Monarch Airlines on the Airbus 320 and A321 as TRE-TRI and latterly with Easyjet as a Training Captain. Outside of work, the enthusiasm for instructing continues on single engine piston and touring motor gliders, with a real passion for vintage and a tailwheel aircraft.
Neil Tayler
Neil gained a PPL at age 19 and then joined the Royal Air Force completing tours on the C130 Hercules at RAF Lyneham and then the BAe146 on The Queens Flight at RAF Benson. Neil then moved to the commercial world flying Boeing 747/757/767/A320 at British Airways and is currently a B777 Training Captain.
Neil gained a PPL at age 19 and then joined the Royal Air Force completing tours on the C130 Hercules at RAF Lyneham and then the BAe146 on The Queens Flight at RAF Benson. Neil moved to the commercial world flying Boeing 747/757/767/A320 at British Airways and is currently a Boeing 777 Training Captain.
Total hours 22,000 with over 5000 hours instructing on B777 and GA aircraft.
Neil owns shares in Perspective SR22 and Avidyne SR20 with 500 hours Cirrus flying experience.
Neil enjoys flying the Cirrus to far flung destinations having ventured as far as Athens up to now.
Neil is keen and enthusiastic to pass on his wealth of knowledge and provide advanced training on more complex and capable types such as the Cirrus. Neil is the UK regional officer for COPA.
