What flight training costs at San Jose flight schools
5 schools train out of San Jose. 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: Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (RHV). Updated September 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.
AeroDynamic Aviation
Part 61 & 141San Jose, CA·aerodynamicaviation.com
$143/hr aircraft (wet)·$82/hr instructor
Checked September 16, 2026·Source
Rates shown are the non-block rate; a prepaid block account lowers each one (block rate noted per airplane). Listed rates include fuel and taxes, but a fuel surcharge currently applies on top (a per-gallon amount posted at the office, not online), so confirm the current surcharge. Some aircraft cost more under Part 141 ($160 to $170). Two locations: San Jose / Reid-Hillview (KRHV), which has the Twin Comanche, and Monterey (KMRY). The instructor figure is the school's published block rate, which it describes as starting at $82/hr and varying with the instructor's experience, so confirm your instructor's rate and what it costs without a block account.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$17,427
range $15K to $19.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planAeroDynamic cost breakdown →- Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.
Air Accord
Part not statedSan Jose, CA·RHV
No PilotBound estimate
Air Accord does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Air AccordNice Air
Part not statedSan Jose, CA·RHV·niceairaviation.com
No PilotBound estimate
Nice Air does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Nice AirSquadron 2
Part not statedSan Jose, CA·RHV·squadron2.com
No PilotBound estimate
Squadron 2 does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Squadron 2Trade Winds Aviation
Part not statedSan Jose, CA·RHV·tradewindsaviation.com
No PilotBound estimate
Trade Winds does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Trade Winds
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 San Jose, in numbers
Computed from the 1 San Jose 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
- $17,427
- Published trainer rental, per hour
- $143/hr
- Published instruction, per hour
- $82/hr
- Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
- 1 of 5
Lowest published trainer rates in San Jose
Part 141 flight schools in San Jose
Airports with San Jose flight schools
Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County RHV
AeroDynamic AviationAir AccordNice AirSquadron 2Trade Winds Aviation
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
- Sacramento3 schools, 1 with rates
- San Carlos3 schools
- San Diego5 schools, 2 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
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Common questions about San Jose flight schools
How much does flight school cost in San Jose?
AeroDynamic Aviation in San Jose is the one San Jose school here with a full published rate card: $143 per hour for its Cessna 150M and $82 per hour for instruction, checked September 16, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,427. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these San Jose flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in San Jose 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 San Jose are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which San Jose airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (RHV) with 5. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in San Jose without one.