Accelerated academy · Blaine, MN · Checked August 24, 2026
What Twin Cities Flight Training's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Twin Cities Flight Training's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Website twincitiesflight.com
Twin Cities FT campuses in Minnesota
Blaine (ANE)
Section 1Program price
Published program price
$75K
Professional Pilot pathway (zero to CFI)
Published as an average. Your real cost rises if you fly more than the average hours.
Twin Cities Flight Training describes its figures as the average costs associated with each program stage, so your real total varies with hours flown. No separate overage rate is published.
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 Twin Cities Flight Training.
The programs, with sources
- Professional Pilot pathway (zero to CFI)
- $75,000
- PPL · IR · CPL · CFI
- August 24, 2026Source
- Published as a $75,000 total built from average stage costs: Private $19,000, Instrument $16,500, Commercial $30,000, CFI $7,000. Program length in months is not published.
- Part 61 school at Anoka County-Blaine Airport (ANE) in the Minneapolis metro. Does not reduce the 1,500-hour airline minimum.
Section 2Paying for it
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Section 3Add to my plan
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- How much does Twin Cities Flight Training cost?
- Twin Cities Flight Training publishes $75,000 for its Professional Pilot pathway (zero to CFI), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (August 24, 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 Twin Cities Flight Training's program price?
- Twin Cities Flight Training's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor. On what it excludes, the academy states: Published as a $75,000 total built from average stage costs: Private $19,000, Instrument $16,500, Commercial $30,000, CFI $7,000. Program length in months is not published.
- What happens if you need more hours than Twin Cities Flight Training's program includes?
- Published as an average. Your real cost rises if you fly more than the average hours. Twin Cities Flight Training describes its figures as the average costs associated with each program stage, so your real total varies with hours flown. No separate overage rate is published. 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 Twin Cities Flight Training 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.
Section 5Sources
Figures are Twin Cities Flight Training'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 Twin Cities Flight Training. Disclaimer & removal policy.
Primary sources: twincitiesflight.com
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