Accelerated academy · Long Beach, CA · Checked July 1, 2026
What Angel City Flyers's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Angel City Flyers's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Angel City campuses in California
Long Beach (LGB)
Published program price
$75K
Ab Initio to Commercial (from zero time)
Guaranteed regardless of the hours you fly.
Angel City publishes fixed course prices, but its top career package (Ab Initio to Commercial, $75,000) stops at the Commercial certificate. It does not publish a flat zero-to-CFI price, so CFI and CFII costs are quoted separately. Confirm how any over-minimum hours are billed.
The academy's own published price. It does not reduce the 1,500-hour airline minimum (only a qualifying degree does). Prices change. Confirm current figures with Angel City Flyers.
The programs, with sources
PPL · IR · CPL
This published $75,000 package takes a zero-time student through the Commercial certificate. It does not include the CFI or CFII, which are priced separately. Standalone Private Pilot is listed at $25,000.
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FAA Part 61 school. Published figure covers PPL, IR, and Commercial over 14 months; CFI/CFII not included in this price.
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- How much does Angel City Flyers cost?
- Angel City Flyers publishes $75,000 for its Ab Initio to Commercial (from zero time), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (July 2026). That is the published sticker for the program, not a personalized quote, and it is what the academy asks before the fees the sticker excludes.
- What is included in Angel City Flyers's program price?
- Angel City Flyers's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating and Commercial Pilot. The academy states about 14 months to finish. On what it excludes, the academy states: This published $75,000 package takes a zero-time student through the Commercial certificate. It does not include the CFI or CFII, which are priced separately. Standalone Private Pilot is listed at $25,000.
- What happens if you need more hours than Angel City Flyers's program includes?
- Guaranteed regardless of the hours you fly. Angel City publishes fixed course prices, but its top career package (Ab Initio to Commercial, $75,000) stops at the Commercial certificate. It does not publish a flat zero-to-CFI price, so CFI and CFII costs are quoted separately. Confirm how any over-minimum hours are billed. This is the question worth asking hardest at any accelerated academy, because the published price and the price a student who flies over the plan actually pays are two different numbers.
- Does going to Angel City Flyers lower the 1,500-hour airline requirement?
- No. An accelerated academy does not reduce the 1,500-hour ATP minimum. Only a qualifying aviation degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160, which lowers it to 1,000 hours for a bachelor's or 1,250 for an associate's. What an academy sells is speed and a fixed price to the commercial certificate and instructor ratings, not a shortcut to the airlines. Most graduates then instruct to build the remaining hours.
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Figures are Angel City Flyers's own published program prices, shown with the date we read them. They are not a personalized quote, and a student's actual cost will differ with location premiums, the fees the sticker excludes, and pace. Published prices generally assume the program's planned hours; flight training often runs over the FAA minimums, and how extra hours are billed varies by academy (some hold a truly fixed cost, others charge an hourly rate for additional time). Confirm the overage policy with the academy. An accelerated academy does not lower the 1,500-hour airline minimum; only a qualifying degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160. PilotBound is not affiliated with Angel City Flyers. Disclaimer & removal policy.
Primary sources: aerocitygroup.com