PilotBound estimate · Soldotna, AK
What flight training at Missionary Aviation Repair Center costs
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MARC names this for Private, Instrument, Commercial and solo work.
PilotBound estimate · Private
Examiner dataCost of your Private at Missionary Aviation Repair Center
range $14.9K – $19.8K · about 6 months at 2×/week
Priced on MARC's published rates: Cessna 172 at $160/hr + $60/hr instruction, checked August 6, 2026.
Against a minimums quote
+$6,500 on MARC's own rates. Quotes usually price the 40-hour minimum; almost nobody finishes there.
Where it goes
One-time fees ($2,375)
- Knowledge (written) test$175
- Checkride / DPE fee$800
- Medical certificate$150
- Headset$700
- Ground school / test prep$300
- Books, charts & supplies$250
Examiner records (DPE dataset).
The hourly flying is priced on Missionary Aviation Repair Center's published rates. About $2,375 of this is one-time fees (written test, examiner/DPE checkride, medical, gear), typical national estimates, not Missionary Aviation Repair Center's prices, and several are set by third parties.
Estimates use PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists and FAA minimums where it does not, applied to each school's published rates. They are PilotBound estimates, not the school's quote, and will differ from a school's own figures. Full methodology and sources →
What MARC publishes
checked August 6, 2026Every rate comes from MARC's 2025 flight school brochure, a PDF rather than a web page, and it does not say whether fuel is included. Instruction is $60/hr for flight AND ground, rising to $70/hr for multi-engine. An IFR simulator is $25/hr alone or $60/hr with an instructor, and is not modeled. Pre-purchasing ten hours of aircraft rental earns a $100 discount. A separate eleven-week ground school is $600 including materials and a flight bag, and runs twice a year for the Private and once for the Instrument. An introductory lesson is $170 and covers an hour of flight and an hour of ground.
Not published: the examiner's checkride fee, whether rates include fuel. Listed as missing rather than guessed.
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Add to my planEstimates use Missionary Aviation Repair Center's published Cessna 172 and instructor rates (checked August 6, 2026), shown in USD for planning only. Real cost varies by student, weather, and pace. An honest range, not a quote.
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Common questions about Missionary Aviation Repair Center
- How much does it cost to get a private pilot license at Missionary Aviation Repair Center?
- Missionary Aviation Repair Center publishes $160 per hour for the Cessna 172 and $60 per hour for instruction on it, checked August 6, 2026. Applied to those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,375, in a range of $14,900 to $19,800. That covers roughly 72 hours of flying and instruction plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out, including the written test, the examiner's checkride fee, a medical, and study materials. It is a PilotBound estimate built on the school's published rates, not a quote from Missionary Aviation Repair Center.
- How long does it take to get a private pilot license at Missionary Aviation Repair Center?
- Flying twice a week, PilotBound estimates about 6 months at Missionary Aviation Repair Center to reach the private pilot checkride, at roughly 72 hours. Pace is the single biggest variable: flying once a week typically stretches the timeline and raises the total, because time between lessons gets spent re-learning. Weather, aircraft availability, and instructor turnover all push the same direction.
- Is Missionary Aviation Repair Center a Part 61 or Part 141 flight school?
- Missionary Aviation Repair Center does not state on its own website whether it trains under Part 61 or Part 141, so we do not list one. It is worth asking directly before you enroll: Part 141 follows an FAA-approved syllabus and is generally what VA benefits require, while Part 61 is more flexible on scheduling.
- Do Missionary Aviation Repair Center's aircraft rates include fuel?
- Missionary Aviation Repair Center publishes $160 per hour for the Cessna 172, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included. Ask before you budget: if the rate turns out to be dry, fuel adds roughly $30 to $60 per hour on top. PilotBound's estimate uses the rate exactly as published. Rates checked August 6, 2026.
- What ratings can you train for at Missionary Aviation Repair Center?
- Missionary Aviation Repair Center trains Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot and Multi-Engine (AMEL). Instruction runs $60 to $70 per hour depending on the rating and the aircraft, since advanced and type-specific instruction is priced above the standard rate. PilotBound's estimator on this page prices any of these paths on Missionary Aviation Repair Center's own published rates.
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