About Us

The highly promising school for aviation.

Lakwin Aviation consists of a Board of Directors under Mr. Lakshitha Weerasinghe, the Founder. The Board consists of Capt. B.C.H. Perera and Mr. H.S. Silva. Lakwin Aviation has been highly privileged to have a highly experienced team of Aviation Professionals. Mr. H.S. Silva, the Managing Director, formerly an engineer in Air Force, is currently the most experienced active engineer in Civil Aviation of Sri Lanka. Captain B.C.H. Perera (Hirantha Perera), the Head of Training and Director of Operations has more than 14,000 hour to 15,000 flying hours and has been type rated in many light, medium and float rated Aircraft. Captain Hirantha has been a Flight Instructor and Certified Check Ride Examiner of CAASL for over 25 years. (He was the youngest person to be qualified in these ranks in Sri Lanka. He holds an ATPL License certified from Canada and Sri Lanka. Furthermore, he previously served as the Chief Flight Instructor in a few Flight Schools. He has hundreds of students qualified as Airline Pilots, Instructor and Charter Pilots in Sri Lanka and overseas. Captain Lakshith Abeyawardhana, a former Chief Ground Instructor with thousands of hours of lecturing and a former Senior Flight Instructor of a few schools, is the Chief Flight Instructor of Lakwin. Mr. Dhanuja Gunasekara, is the Chief Ground Instructor. He has been instructing for five years. Additional flight and ground instructors with years of experience and excellence are in the staff of Lakwin Flight Academy. Mr. Praveen Fernando, is the Maintenance Manager with a team of highly competent and qualified maintenance engineers.

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Vision

"The most preferred aviation provider in the country"

Our Team

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Mr. Lakshitha Weerasinghe

Founder

Mr. Lakshitha Weerasinghe is an accomplished businessman owning and managing a number of businesses and companies including Lakwin Aviation (PVT) Ltd. and Lakwin Holdings. He has been in the business field for over 20 years.

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Mr. H.S. Silva

CEO / Managing Director / Accountable Manager

Mr. H.S. Silva, the CEO, formerly an engineer in Air Force, is currently the most experienced active engineer in General Aviation field of Sri Lanka.

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Captain B.C.H Perera

Director - Operations / Head of Training

Captain B.C.H. Perera (Hirantha Perera), the Head of Training and Director of Operations has more than 15,000 flying hours and has been type rated in many light, medium and float rated Aircraft. Captain Hirantha has been a Flight Instructor and Certified Check Ride Examiner of CAASL for over 25 years...

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Captain L. Abeywardana

Chief Flying instructor

Captain Lakshith Abeyawardhana, is rated in the Cessna 150 series and the Cessna 172, and has over 2,100 hours of flying and holds a CPL/IR/FI with frozen ATPL from CAASL. He has been a former Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor with over 6,000 hours of lecturing and a former Senior Flight Instructor of number of academies.

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Mr. Dhanuja Gunasekara

Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor

Mr. Dhanuja Gunasekera is the Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor holding a PPL, CPL/IR, ME with IR & a Frozen ATPL. He has over 5000 hours of lecture experience on PPL, CPL & ATPL subjects

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Mr. Praveen Fernando

Engineering/Maintenance Manager

With an experience of over 8 years in the General Aviation industry, Mr. Praveen has worked on many types of aircraft including Helicopters, Planes and Sea Planes.