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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Glendale flight schools

6 schools train out of Glendale. 4 publish a full rate card, shown with the source and the date it was read, next to a PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate. The other 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Across the 4 Glendale schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $140 to $185 per hour and instruction $50 to $75, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $15,355 and $20,045, with a median of $16,910.

One field: Glendale Municipal Airport (GEU). Whole state instead? Arizona flight schools

Flight school costs in Glendale, in numbers

Computed from the 4 Glendale schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 2 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$16,910
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 4 schools with published rates
$140 to $185
Published trainer rental, per hour
$50 to $75
Published instruction, per hour
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Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Glendale

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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 Glendale

lowest $13.2Khighest $22.9K

  • Fly Eagle Sport

    Part not stated
    Lowest in AZ

    Glendale, AZ·flyeaglesport.com

    Published rates

    $140/hr aircraft (wet)+$50/hr instructor

    Checked August 20, 2026·Source

    Rates are per Hobbs hour and published wet, with FES fuel included and no surcharge on flights returning to Glendale. Fuel bought away from base is reimbursed at $2.50 per gallon, not at cost. Instruction is tiered: $50/hr standard, $60/hr senior for the Instrument and Commercial stages, and $70/hr for the AirCam and Sonex special programs. Aircraft time is billed on the Hobbs meter but instructor time covers the whole lesson including briefing and debrief, so the instruction hours run longer than the flight hours. A Redbird LD simulator is $70/hr.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $15,355

    range $13.2K – $17.5K

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

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  • Fly Glendale

    Part not stated

    Glendale, AZ·flyglendale.com

    Published rates

    $145/hr aircraft (wet)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $16,585

    range $14.3K – $18.9K

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

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  • Angel Aviation

    Part 61
    Largest fleet

    Glendale, AZ·angelaviation.com

    Published rates

    $150/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet (fuel included, no surcharges). Away from base, fuel is reimbursed at the base airport's self-serve pump price, taxes are not included, and every rental requires a checkout flight charged at the regular hourly rate. A 10-hour block lowers the rates to Cessna 172 $145, glass $160, TAA $175, and the Seneca $335. Cross-country time building is priced separately (10-hour minimum): Cessna 152 $120, Cessna 172 $130, glass $145, TAA $160, and the Seneca $345 including the instructor.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $17,235

    range $14.8K – $19.6K

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

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  • Arizona Flight Training Center

    Part not stated

    Glendale, AZ·arizonaflighttrainingcenter.com

    Published rates

    $185/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    AFTC publishes two figures per airplane, an Hourly Rate and a lower Account Rate, and does not explain on the aircraft page what qualifies you for the Account Rate. This estimate uses the HOURLY rate, the one a student pays without qualifying for anything, so ask about the Account Rate before budgeting: it is $5/hr lower on the two 172s and is marked not applicable on the 182 and the twin. Flight and ground instruction are the same $75/hr. Two simulators are published separately, an Elite PC-135 BATD at $60/hr and a second device at $70/hr, each with its own lower account rate. The site does not state whether aircraft rates include fuel.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $20,045

    range $17.2K – $22.9K

    ~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.

  • Aerosim Aviation

    Part not stated

    Glendale, AZ·GEU

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aerosim does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Multi Engine Time Building

    Part not stated

    Glendale, AZ·GEU·multienginetimebuilding.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 5, 2026·Source

    Multi-engine only. Time building is $409/hr wet and is sold dual only, so the figure carries an instructor inside it and is not an aircraft rate on its own. The fifteen-hour accelerated multi-engine rating is $5,599.99 including instructor, fuel, ground school and aircraft. No single-engine airplane and no separate instructor rate.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Multi Engine Time Building does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Glendale flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Glendale?
Across the 4 Glendale flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $140 to $185 per hour and instruction $50 to $75 per hour, checked as recently as September 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $15,355 and $20,045, with a median of $16,910. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Glendale?
Fly Eagle Sport in Glendale publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 4 Glendale schools listed here, $140 per hour for its Remos GX, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked August 20, 2026. The lowest hourly rate is not automatically the lowest total: instructor rates, fuel basis, and the hours you actually fly decide that, which is what the per-school estimates on this page hold constant.
How current are these Glendale flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Glendale is September 16, 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 in Glendale are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Glendale airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Glendale Municipal Airport (GEU) with 6. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Glendale without one.

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