Trainers
Aviation professionals teaching the next generation
Every Soma trainer brings working industry experience into the classroom. Captains who fly the line. Dispatchers who run real ops. Specialists who shipped the freight.
Rashid Mwanajimba
Head of Training
Over 56 years in aviation, with a career split between HF radio telephony communication with flights in the East African airspace, communications centres, and 25 years of aviation training at CATC across various specialties in aviation. Now leads Soma's training centre.
Mark Manji
Chief Flight Operations Instructor
More than five decades of industry experience. Starting his career in the 1970s as an air traffic controller and licensed private pilot in Nigeria, he later spent decades shaping local aviation as the Manager of Operations Control for Air Tanzania. Today, Mark channels his lifetime of operational mastery into mentoring students at Soma Aviation Training Centre.
Aurelia Mushi
Flight Operations Instructor
Kalebe Msumeno
Flight Operations Instructor
Patrick Itule
Flight Operations Instructor
Leonard Nyenza
Flight Operations Instructor