About Vulturașul: aerobatics from Costinești

What DTO Vulturașul is

DTO stands for Declared Training Organisation — a flight training organisation registered with the aviation authority, operating to an approved training programme, with qualified instructors and aircraft maintained to the applicable requirements. For aerobatics, DTO Vulturașul is the first such organisation registered in Romania.

In practice, this means aerobatics is not an occasional sideline for us but our core business: written procedures, standard briefings, and a flying discipline applied in exactly the same way to a training lesson and to an experience flight bought as a gift.

Who takes you up

Flights are flown by a professional pilot certified for aerobatics with a passenger on board. The rating for this type of flying is separate from an ordinary licence and is kept current through recurrent training — it is not something you earn once and hold forever.

From the passenger's side it looks simpler: someone who explains every manoeuvre before take-off, who asks how you are feeling during the flight, and who stops the aerobatics the moment you ask. Almost everyone climbs into the aircraft with a trace of nerves. The pilot's job is to turn that into confidence before the propeller starts turning.

The aircraft: an aerobatic trainer, not a competition aircraft

We fly a Robin R2160 (Alpha Sport) — an aircraft designed specifically as an aerobatic trainer. It is not an ordinary aeroplane adapted for aerobatic figures, but one built from the outset for people to learn aerobatics on. It is certified in the utility and aerobatic categories, with limits of +6/−3G.

Two details of the design completely change the passenger's experience:

• The seats are side by side, not in tandem. You sit in the right-hand seat, next to the pilot, not behind him. You can see each other, hear each other effortlessly, ask anything during the flight and see exactly what the pilot is doing with his hands on the controls.
• It has dual controls. In front of you there is a working control stick and rudder pedals, just as in any flight training aircraft.

Competition aerobatic aircraft used for passenger flights are usually built with tandem seating — the passenger sits behind the pilot — and belong to a higher performance category. This is not a comparison of quality, but a difference of configuration and purpose: one is made for competition, the other for training.

Home base: Costinești Airfield

We operate from Costinești Airfield in Constanța county, a few kilometres from the sea. It is a location with a practical advantage for aerobatics: airspace that allows complete figures and, under the wing, the coastline, the beaches of southern Romania and open sea all the way to the horizon.

The flying season runs from spring to autumn, when the weather allows aerobatics to be flown safely. We operate Monday to Saturday, 08:00 to 20:00, and every flight is reconfirmed for weather at least 3 days in advance.

Touring the country

Not everyone can make it to the coast, so the team travels periodically — usually every 2 years — to other cities in Romania for Full Aerobatic and Introduction to Aerobatics flights. In 2025, Vulturașul visited Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Timișoara.

Tour dates are announced on Instagram and TikTok. If you are waiting for a date in your city, follow those accounts — that is where announcements go up first.

What we offer

Three types of flight, all available as a gift card: Smooth Flight (20 minutes of flight, 30 minutes total experience, smooth manoeuvres over the coast), Introduction to Aerobatics flight (30 minutes of flight, 40 minutes total experience, loops and rolls, 3–4G) and Full Aerobatic flight (30 minutes of flight, 45 minutes total experience, including spins and inverted flight, 4–6G).

What each one includes, and why the prices differ, is explained on the how much an aerobatic flight costs. The participation requirements are the same for all of them: minimum age 10 (minors with both parents present), maximum 100 kg, no previous flight experience needed.

How we work with customers

• Order online. Secure payment through Stripe, in full or in interest-free instalments.
• Automatic invoicing. Issued through SmartBill, for individuals and for companies.
• Gift card delivered by email, immediately after payment, valid for 24 months.
• Flexible booking. The recipient chooses the date; rescheduling is free, subject to availability.
• Direct contact. By phone or WhatsApp, on 0726 327 192.

Company details

• Name: Vulturașul SRL
• VAT ID: 41585573
• Home base: Costinești Airfield, Constanța county
• Phone: 0726 327 192
• Email: office@vulturasul.ro
• Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 08:00–20:00

The full contractual terms are set out in our Terms and Conditions, and how we handle your data is described in our privacy policy.

Useful pages