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What flight training costs at Bakersfield flight schools

3 schools train out of Bakersfield. 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.

2 fields: Meadows Field (BFL) and Bakersfield Municipal Airport (L45). Updated October 12, 2026 · All California 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 Bakersfield$15.1K$20.1K

  • Bakersfield Flying Club

    Part not stated

    Bakersfield, CA·bakersfieldflyingclub.com

    $155/hr aircraft (wet)·$70/hr instructor

    Checked October 12, 2026·Source

    All rates are wet. Three Cessna 172s: two 160hp (172N, 172M) at $155/hr, both TAA-approved for commercial training, and a 180hp 172S at $165/hr. The Redbird FMX AATD sim is $65/hr in the C172 config ($85 for the C206 config, $25 for emergency-procedures training), plus a CFI. Instructor rates are not on the airplanes page; independent CFIs run about $70 to $80/hr per the learn-to-fly page. Membership club (dues and an application fee apply).

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $17,595

    range $15.1K to $20.1K

    ~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.

  • Excell Aviation, Inc.

    Part not stated

    Bakersfield, CA·BFL

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    What to ask Excell

  • Robbins Flight Training

    Part not stated

    Bakersfield, CA·L45

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    What to ask Robbins

Estimates use the same method as every California 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

Flight school costs in Bakersfield, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Bakersfield school that publishes 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.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$17,595
Published trainer rental, per hour
$155/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$70/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Bakersfield flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Bakersfield?

Bakersfield Flying Club in Bakersfield is the one Bakersfield school here with a full published rate card: $155 per hour for its Cessna 172N and $70 per hour for instruction, checked October 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,595. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Bakersfield flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Bakersfield is October 12, 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 Bakersfield are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Which Bakersfield airports have flight schools?

2 fields carry the listed schools: Meadows Field (BFL) with 2, and Bakersfield Municipal Airport (L45) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Bakersfield without one.