Civil aviation university of china, located in Tianjin, is an institution of higher learning directly under the Civil Aviation Administration of China, which mainly trains senior civil aviation engineering and management talents. It is a university jointly established by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the Tianjin Municipal People's Government and the Ministry of Education. It is also the second batch of "excellent engineer education and training plan" universities of the Ministry of Education, and a high-level characteristic university in Tianjin.
The school has two main campuses, Tianjin Dongli Campus and Ninghe Campus, and three flight training bases, namely Chaoyang Flight Academy, Inner Mongolia Flight Academy and Xinjiang Tian Xiang Aviation Academy Co., Ltd., with a total area of 6,543,800 square meters and a total construction area of 874,000 square meters.