Accelerated academy · Dallas, TX · Checked August 18, 2026
What Parrish Aviation Flight Academy's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Parrish Aviation Flight Academy's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Website parrishaviation.com
Parrish Aviation campuses in Texas
Dallas (RBD) · Fort Worth (T67)
Published program price
$100K
Full Career Program (Cessna 172)
Assumes the program's planned hours. Most students fly over the minimums, and the extra flight time is billed separately.
The published total assumes the programme's 240 flight hours. The school says exact cost depends on the hours a student actually flies, the examiner chosen and its current aircraft rates, so flying over the plan is billed on top.
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 Parrish Aviation Flight Academy.
The programs, with sources
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · CFII · 240 hrs
Excludes non-owner's insurance, the medical exam fee and FAA test fees. The school also notes that building from the programme's hours to the 1,500-hour ATP minimum is largely self-funded by instructing.
240 flight hours plus 50 in the simulator.
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · CFII · 240 hrs
Excludes non-owner's insurance, the medical exam fee and FAA test fees. The school also notes that building from the programme's hours to the 1,500-hour ATP minimum is largely self-funded by instructing.
The same programme flown in the glass-cockpit Sling NGT rather than the Cessna 172.
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- How much does Parrish Aviation Flight Academy cost?
- Parrish Aviation Flight Academy publishes $99,951 for its Full Career Program (Cessna 172), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (August 18, 2026). It publishes 2 tracks in total, priced by how much flight experience you start with. 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 Parrish Aviation Flight Academy's program price?
- Parrish Aviation Flight Academy's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, Multi-Engine (AMEL), Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor. The headline track plans for about 240 flight hours. On what it excludes, the academy states: Excludes non-owner's insurance, the medical exam fee and FAA test fees. The school also notes that building from the programme's hours to the 1,500-hour ATP minimum is largely self-funded by instructing.
- What happens if you need more hours than Parrish Aviation Flight Academy's program includes?
- Assumes the program's planned hours. Most students fly over the minimums, and the extra flight time is billed separately. The published total assumes the programme's 240 flight hours. The school says exact cost depends on the hours a student actually flies, the examiner chosen and its current aircraft rates, so flying over the plan is billed on top. 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 Parrish Aviation Flight Academy 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 Parrish Aviation Flight Academy'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 Parrish Aviation Flight Academy. Disclaimer & removal policy.
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