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What flight training costs at Centennial (APA)

5 schools train at Centennial Airport, Denver. 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.

Updated October 13, 2026 · All Colorado 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 Centennial$15.8K$21K

  • Colorado's BEST Flight School

    Part not stated

    Englewood, CO·coloradosbestflightschool.com

    $170/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$65/hr instructor

    Checked October 12, 2026·Source

    The training-programs page prices each certificate with its own aircraft and instructor rate: Private $170 and $65, Instrument $180 and $70, Commercial $180 and $75, high-performance endorsement $210 and $75, flight review instruction $100. The home page lists the fleet by tail. Nothing says whether the aircraft rates include fuel. The Redbird AATD is $70/hr and the twin $314/hr.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $18,385

    range $15.8K to $21K

    ~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.

  • Aspen Flying Club

    Part not stated

    Englewood, CO·APA·aspenflyingclub.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aspen Flying Club does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Aspen Flying Club

  • Centennial Flyers

    Part not stated

    Englewood, CO·APA·centennialflyers.com

    $134/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·9 aircraft published

    Nineteen airplanes are priced on the training page, every rate wet and inclusive of taxes and, where applicable, TKS and oxygen. Instruction is by independent instructors, airline pilots and career CFIs, and no instructor rate is published anywhere.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Centennial Flyers does not publish an instructor rate

    What to ask Centennial Flyers

  • Flights Inc

    Part not stated

    Centennial, CO·APA·flightsinc.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Flights Inc does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Flights Inc

  • RockStreet Aviation

    Part not stated

    Englewood, CO·APA·rockstreetaviation.com

    Checked October 13, 2026·Source

    A one-instructor school whose students fly the Flights Inc flying club's airplanes at Centennial. Its fleet page lists seventeen of the club's Cessna 172s, a 182 and a Seminole by tail with an hourly rate on each, and the instructor's own hourly rate is not published.

    No PilotBound estimate

    RockStreet does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask RockStreet

Estimates use the same method as every Colorado 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

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Flight school costs at Centennial, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Centennial school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above 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
$18,385
Published trainer rental, per hour
$170/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$65 to $75
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about flight schools at APA

How much does flight school cost at Centennial?

Colorado's BEST Flight School in Englewood is the one Centennial school here with a full published rate card: $170 per hour for its Cessna 172, analog panel and $65 per hour for instruction, checked October 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $18,385. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Centennial flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check at Centennial is October 13, 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 at Centennial are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Can I take a discovery flight at APA?

One of the 5 schools at Centennial Airport publishes a discovery flight price: RockStreet Aviation at $160, checked October 13, 2026. Each is the school's own published price, and the listing says what it includes.