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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Long Beach flight schools

7 schools train out of Long Beach. 3 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 4 are listed with what they do publish.

Across the 3 Long Beach schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $135 to $199 per hour and instruction $90 to $120, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $17,675 and $22,503, with a median of $17,895.

One field: Long Beach International Airport (LGB). Whole state instead? California flight schools

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.

$17,895
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 3 schools with published rates
$135 to $199
Published trainer rental, per hour
$90 to $120
Published instruction, per hour
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Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Long Beach

Airports with Long Beach 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 Long Beach

lowest $15.2Khighest $25.7K

  • Aces High Aviation

    Part 61
    Lowest in CALargest fleet

    Long Beach, CA·aceshighaviation.com

    Published rates

    $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 – $20.1K

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

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  • Aero Aviation

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·flyaeroaviation.com

    Published rates

    $135/hr aircraft (wet)+$100/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 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 – $20.4K

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

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  • Pacific Air Flight School

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·pacificairflightschool.com

    Published rates

    $199/hr aircraft (wet)+$100/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 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 – $25.7K

    ~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.

  • Angel City Flyers

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·LGB·angelcityflyers.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Angel City does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • California Flight Center Reborne

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·LGB·californiaflightcenterreborne.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    CFC Reborne does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Long Beach Flying Club and Flight Academy

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·LGB·lbflying.com

    Published rates

    $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

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Sky Creation, Inc

    Part not stated

    Long Beach, CA·LGB·skycreation.net

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Sky Creation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

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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 September 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 September 10, 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 September 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.

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