Flight training at Marana Flight School

1. 1

   What do you charge per hour for flight instruction, and is ground instruction billed at the same rate?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site. Ground is often billed separately and at a different rate.

2. 2

   Does the instructor rate change for the Instrument, Commercial, or CFI, or is it flat across everything?Missing from their site

   Plenty of schools charge more for advanced instruction. A flat rate quoted for the Private can climb later.

3. 3

   What is the hourly rate on your cheapest trainer, and which airplane is that?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site, and it is the largest line on your bill.

4. 4

   Is that rate wet or dry, meaning does it include fuel?Missing from their site

   A dry rate and a wet rate are not comparable. Dry rates can run $40 to $60 an hour lower for the same airplane.

5. 5

   Are you Marana Flight School or Noble Aire now, and is it the same operation?

   The old domain redirects to a Noble Aire site, so the name you booked under may not be the name on the invoice.

6. 6

   What are the aircraft and instruction rates?Missing from their site

   The pricing page is behind a login, so no figure is publicly readable.

7. 7

   Do you offer block rates or prepay discounts, and what is the refund policy if I stop partway?

   Block discounts are common and rarely published. The refund terms matter more than the discount.

8. 8

   What do you charge for the written test, the checkride, and the examiner's fee?

   The DPE fee alone runs $800 to $1,200 in most of the country and is almost never in a quoted hourly rate.

9. 9

   How many trainers and how many full-time instructors do you have right now?

   Availability decides your pace, and pace decides your total more than the hourly rate does.

What to compare their answer against

Not Marana's rates. The middle of what 10 Arizona schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Marana is not in it.

What we checked

`maranaflightschools.com` now redirects to `nobleaire.us`, so this school appears to have rebranded to Noble Aire; both names are kept here because AOPA still lists the old one and the rebrand looks incomplete. ITS PRICING PAGE IS BEHIND A LOGIN: the /pricing link leads to a sign-in and the page itself returns almost no content. That is a different situation from a school that publishes nothing, and it means the rates exist and are simply not public.