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What flight training costs at Falcon Field (FFZ)

3 schools train at Falcon Field, Mesa. One publishes a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Updated October 8, 2026 · All Arizona flight schools

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Totals to reach your Private goal at this pace. 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. How we estimate.

Private estimate range across Falcon Field$15.7K$20.8K

  • Classic Air Aviation

    Part not stated

    Mesa, AZ·classicairaviation.com

    $160/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$75/hr instructor

    Checked October 8, 2026·Source

    Rates come from the school's per-course pricing tables, which all price the C172M at $160/hr and instruction and ground at $75/hr; the multi-engine add-on prices the Seminole at $375/hr with the same $75 instruction. The simulator is $65/hr. Time-building is $160/hr. Flight accounts start at $1,000 and pay-as-you-go is allowed.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $18,245

    range $15.7K to $20.8K

    ~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.

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  • Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.

  • Falcon Executive Aviation

    Part not stated

    Mesa, AZ·FFZ·falconaviation.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Falcon Executive does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

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  • Leopard Aviation

    Part not stated

    Mesa, AZ·FFZ·leopardaviation.com

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source

    Leopard prices no single-engine trainer by the hour and no instructor by the hour. What it does price is the multi-engine side: a Piper Seminole at $579/hr dual, which covers the aircraft, its fuel and the instructor in one figure, a seven-day accelerated multi course at $5,500 all in with eleven flight hours, simulator sessions at $130/hr and a $100 ground materials package, with block-hour discounts of up to 10%.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Leopard does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Leopard

Estimates use the same method as every Arizona school page: PilotBound's own completion-hours model times each school's published rates, plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out. They are ours, not the schools' quotes, and we are not affiliated with the schools. How these estimates work·Disclaimer & removal policy

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Flight school costs at Falcon Field, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Falcon Field school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 2 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$18,245
Published trainer rental, per hour
$160/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$75/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about flight schools at FFZ

How much does flight school cost at Falcon Field?

Classic Air Aviation in Mesa is the one Falcon Field school here with a full published rate card: $160 per hour for its Cessna 172M and $75 per hour for instruction, checked October 8, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $18,245. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Falcon Field flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check at Falcon Field is October 8, 2026, and each card and school page shows the exact date its rates were read. The directory is re-checked on a monthly cycle, and 2 more schools at Falcon Field are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Can I take a discovery flight at FFZ?

One of the 3 schools at Falcon Field publishes a discovery flight price: Leopard Aviation at $199, checked September 14, 2026. Each is the school's own published price, and the listing says what it includes.