What flight training costs at Long Beach flight schools
7 schools train out of Long Beach. 3 publish 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: Long Beach International Airport (LGB). Updated October 16, 2026 · All California flight schools
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.
Aces High Aviation
Part 61Lowest in CALargest fleetLong Beach, CA·aceshighaviation.com
$140/hr aircraft (wet)·$90/hr instructor
Checked September 16, 2026·Source
Rates are wet (fuel and oil included). No setup, monthly, or annual dues. Redbird MCX AATD sim is $90/hr. The DA-42 twin prices the multi-engine ratings.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$17,675
range $15.2K to $20.1K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planAces High Aviation cost breakdown →Aero Aviation
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·flyaeroaviation.com
$135/hr aircraft (wet)·$100/hr instructor
Checked October 16, 2026·Source
The school states all prices are wet, all aircraft are IFR rated, and all engines are factory overhauled. Block rates are offered on every aircraft but the discounted figure is not published. Advanced instruction is $120/hr against a $100/hr basic rate. A Diamond DA-42 twin is in the fleet at $500/hr, but the site does not list multi-engine training, so the multi goals stay hidden.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$17,895
range $15.4K to $20.4K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planAero Aviation cost breakdown →Pacific Air Flight School
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·pacificairflightschool.com
$199/hr aircraft (wet)·$100/hr instructor
Checked October 16, 2026·Source
The school states all prices are wet and final, with no club fees. A military discount and block rate take $5/hr off each aircraft. The instructor rate is published inside the flight-instructor course page rather than a rate table.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$22,503
range $19.4K to $25.7K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planPacific Air cost breakdown →- Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.
Angel City Flyers
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·LGB·angelcityflyers.com
No PilotBound estimate
Angel City does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Angel CityCalifornia Flight Center Reborne
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·LGB·californiaflightcenterreborne.com
No PilotBound estimate
CFC Reborne does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask CFC ReborneLong Beach Flying Club and Flight Academy
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·LGB·lbflying.com
$108/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published
Checked September 13, 2026·Source·8 aircraft published
Rates are wet (fuel and insurance included) and are the cash price; credit-card pricing is a few dollars higher (a Cessna 172 is $150). Cross-country fuel is reimbursed up to $7.25/gal with receipts.
No PilotBound estimate
Long Beach Flying Club does not publish an instructor rate
What to ask Long Beach Flying ClubSky Creation, Inc
Part not statedLong Beach, CA·LGB·skycreation.net
No PilotBound estimate
Sky Creation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Sky Creation
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 Long Beach, in numbers
Computed from the 3 Long Beach schools that publish 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.
- Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 3 schools with published rates
- $17,895
- Published trainer rental, per hour
- $135 to $199
- Published instruction, per hour
- $90 to $120
- Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
- 3 of 7
Lowest published trainer rates in Long Beach
Airports with Long Beach flight schools
Flight schools in other California cities.
- Acampo3 schools
- Auburn3 schools, all with rates
- Bakersfield3 schools, 1 with rates
- Bermuda Dunes3 schools, 1 with rates
- Camarillo3 schools
- Cameron Park3 schools, 2 with rates
- Carlsbad3 schools, all with rates
- Chico2 schools, all with rates
- Chino5 schools, 1 with rates
- Concord5 schools, 1 with rates
- El Cajon6 schools, 1 with rates
- Hayward5 schools
- Lancaster2 schools, all with rates
- Livermore5 schools, 2 with rates
- Novato3 schools
- Oakland3 schools, 1 with rates
- Palo Alto3 schools, 1 with rates
- Ramona3 schools
- Riverside3 schools, 2 with rates
- Sacramento3 schools, 1 with rates
- San Carlos3 schools
- San Diego5 schools, 2 with rates
- San Jose5 schools, 1 with rates
- Santa Ana4 schools, 2 with rates
- Stockton3 schools, 2 with rates
- Torrance4 schools, 3 with rates
- Van Nuys15 schools, 6 with rates
- Watsonville4 schools, 1 with rates
All California flight schools →Flight school costs by state →
Common questions about Long Beach flight schools
How much does flight school cost in Long Beach?
Across the 3 Long Beach flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $135 to $199 per hour and instruction $90 to $120 per hour, checked as recently as October 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $17,675 and $22,503, with a median of $17,895. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Long Beach?
Aero Aviation in Long Beach publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 3 Long Beach schools listed here, $135 per hour for its Cessna 152, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked October 16, 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 Long Beach flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Long Beach 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 Long Beach are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Long Beach airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Long Beach International Airport (LGB) with 7. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Long Beach without one.