With the help and success of God, and then thanks to the directives of the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan - May God have mercy on him- founder of the United Arab Emirates, the Air Aviation School was established at Al Dhafra Air Base (Abu Dhabi) in June 1982. This is due to the need to prepare qualified pilots to keep pace with the rapid development in the field of aviation and the military in its various specializations, due to the different training methods and the different customs and traditions in foreign countries, in addition to the high cost of training and preparing pilots outside the UAE.
In 1984, the school was transformed into an aviation college called the Air College, and it was at that time under the leadership of Major Pilot Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, as he wanted to be a nucleus for training the candidate students and graduating them as pilot officers who were competent in their work and taught them to work in the service of their country.
In view of the steady increase in the number of candidates and the congestion of the atmosphere around Al Dhafra Air Base and the presence of Abu Dhabi International Airport relatively close to the base, there was a need to move the college to a new headquarters that would be ready to receive larger numbers of candidates, and provide the airspace and training areas required to train pilot candidates and accommodate the future development of the college Therefore, the decision was taken to build a new headquarters for the college in the city of Al Ain, so that the latest devices, laboratories and modern technological and scientific equipment are available to keep pace with the global development in the field of aviation. The move was made to those buildings in 1995.
In 1996, the new buildings of the Air College in Al Ain opened under the patronage and presence of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan - may God have mercy on him - and the name of the college was changed to "Khalifa bin Zayed Air College".
In 2007, the college obtained institutional accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the country, and was accredited as one of the accredited academic institutions in the United Arab Emirates.
It was agreed between the General Command of the Armed Forces and the Higher Colleges of Technology to implement the educational program according to which the Higher Colleges of Technology in the country would award a bachelor's degree in: