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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 14, 2026

What flight training costs at Cameron Park flight schools

3 schools train out of Cameron Park. 2 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 one is listed with what they do publish.

Across the 2 Cameron Park schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $165 to $195 per hour and instruction $80 to $100, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $20,055 and $21,055, with a median of $20,555.

One field: Cameron Airpark (O61). Whole state instead? California flight schools

Flight school costs in Cameron Park, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Cameron Park schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 1 listing without a full rate card is left out of every figure.

$20,555
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$165 to $195
Published trainer rental, per hour
$80 to $100
Published instruction, per hour
2 of 3
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Cameron Park

Airports with Cameron Park 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 Cameron Park

lowest $17.2Khighest $24K

  • Foothill Flight Center

    Part 61
    Lowest in CALargest fleet

    Cameron Park, CA·foothillflightcenter.com

    Published rates

    $165/hr aircraft (wet)+$100/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet. The instruction rate is stamped effective July 2024. Foothill is a tailwheel and aerobatic specialist: every airplane on the current fleet page is a taildragger, two of them aerobatic types used for spin and upset training rather than primary instruction.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $20,055

    range $17.2K – $22.9K

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

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  • Peterson Aviation

    Part not stated

    Cameron Park, CA·peterson-aviation.com

    Published rates

    $195/hr aircraft (wet)+$80/hr instructor

    Checked September 1, 2026·Source

    The 172 rents wet. The school offers to train from other Sacramento-area airports for arrangement-specific fixed costs, disclosed here and not modeled. The instrument rating is advertised as coming soon and is not counted until it does.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $21,055

    range $18.1K – $24K

    ~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.

  • Max Aero

    Part not stated

    Cameron Park, CA·max.aero

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 14, 2026·Source

    Instruction is $75 an hour. A typical ground lesson runs two hours, so $150, and a typical flight lesson is two and a half hours of instruction with 75 minutes of aircraft rental. The aircraft rate is not published: the school says it depends on which airplane is flown.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Max Aero does not publish an aircraft rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Cameron Park flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Cameron Park?
Across the 2 Cameron Park flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $165 to $195 per hour and instruction $80 to $100 per hour, checked as recently as September 14, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $20,055 and $21,055, with a median of $20,555. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Cameron Park?
Foothill Flight Center in Cameron Park publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Cameron Park schools listed here, $165 per hour for its Rans S-7LS Courier, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked September 12, 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 Cameron Park flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Cameron Park is September 14, 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 one more school in Cameron Park is listed without an estimate because it does not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Cameron Park airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Cameron Airpark (O61) with 2. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Cameron Park without one.

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