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What flight training costs at Concord flight schools

5 schools train out of Concord. One publishes a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 4 are listed with what they do publish.

One field: Buchanan Field (CCR). Updated October 16, 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 Concord$17.4K$23K

  • Pacific States Aviation

    Part 141

    Concord, CA·psaflight.com

    $145/hr aircraft (wet)·$105/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet (per Hobbs), from the downloadable rate sheet revised Sept 25, 2025. Membership is mandatory ($75 one-time, $135 every 3 months). Instruction is a flat $105/hr; outside instruction is $135/hr. PSA's fleet page separately announces higher single-engine rates effective September 1, 2026 ($215 for the 172s, $245 for the G1000 172s, $155 for the 150) and now prices the Tecnam P2006T at $550/hr. Neither is on the rate sheet, and neither is used here.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $20,195

    range $17.4K to $23K

    ~78 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.

  • Hodge Flight Services

    Part 61

    Concord, CA·CCR·hodgeflightservices.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Hodge Flight Services does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Hodge Flight Services

  • MP Aviation

    Part not stated

    Concord, CA·CCR·mp-aviation.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    MP Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask MP Aviation

  • Sterling Aviation Flight Training Center

    Part not stated

    Concord, CA·CCR

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    What to ask Sterling

  • TrexAir Aviation Academy

    Part not stated

    Concord, CA·CCR·trexair.com

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    TrexAir trains in two-seat Sling 2 and Van's RV-12 light-sport airplanes and prices each certificate as a range rather than by the hour.

    No PilotBound estimate

    TrexAir does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask TrexAir

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 Concord, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Concord school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 4 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$20,195
Published trainer rental, per hour
$145/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$105/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Concord flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Concord?

Pacific States Aviation in Concord is the one Concord school here with a full published rate card: $145 per hour for its Cessna 150J and $105 per hour for instruction, checked September 16, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $20,195. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Concord flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Concord is October 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 4 more schools in Concord are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Which Concord airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Buchanan Field (CCR) with 5. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Concord without one.