What flight training costs at Sacramento flight schools
3 schools train out of Sacramento. 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.
One field: Sacramento Executive Airport (SAC). Updated October 12, 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.
Executive Flyers, Inc.
Part not statedSacramento, CA·learntoflysacramento.com
$160/hr aircraft (wet)·$61/hr instructor
Checked October 12, 2026·Source
All rates are wet. Figures shown are the non-club rate; club (member) rates are lower, noted per airplane. The flight simulator is $45/hr, plus a $5/hr insurance deductible fund and a $15 headset rental. Instruction is $61/hr for both primary and advanced training, with $10/hr more for instruction in an aircraft you own. Executive Flyers is also an FAA testing center.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$17,433
range $15K to $19.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planExecutive Flyers cost breakdown →- Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.
Carter Flygare, Inc.
Part not statedSacramento, CA·SAC·cfi.com
$160/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published
Checked September 13, 2026·Source·7 aircraft published
Eleven aircraft priced individually, with the avionics listed against each one, and the page does not say whether fuel is included. INSTRUCTION IS PRICED BY THE INSTRUCTOR'S GRADE rather than by what you are training for: $55/hr with a basic advanced flight instructor, $65/hr with a flight instructor, and $70 or $75/hr with one of the two Gold Seal chief pilots, each for ground or flight. Two surcharges sit on top of whichever you pick: $5/hr if you fly your own aircraft and another $5/hr for multi-engine instruction.
Jetexe Aviation
Part not statedSacramento, CA·SAC·jetexe.com
No PilotBound estimate
Jetexe Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Jetexe Aviation
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 Sacramento, in numbers
Computed from the 1 Sacramento 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
- $17,433
- Published trainer rental, per hour
- $160/hr
- Published instruction, per hour
- $61/hr
- Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
- 1 of 3
Lowest published trainer rates in Sacramento
Airports with Sacramento flight schools
Sacramento Executive Airport SAC
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
- Long Beach7 schools, 3 with rates
- Novato3 schools
- Oakland3 schools, 1 with rates
- Palo Alto3 schools, 1 with rates
- Ramona3 schools
- Riverside3 schools, 2 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 Sacramento flight schools
How much does flight school cost in Sacramento?
Executive Flyers, Inc. in Sacramento is the one Sacramento school here with a full published rate card: $160 per hour for its Piper Warrior PA28-161 and $61 per hour for instruction, checked October 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,433. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these Sacramento flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Sacramento 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 Sacramento are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Sacramento airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Sacramento Executive Airport (SAC) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Sacramento without one.