Flight training at Songbird Aviation of Colorado

Aircraft: $100/hr

A light-sport flying club of up to 30 members that provides the aircraft, maintenance, insurance and fuel at $100/hr. The airplanes are a Rans S-19 Venterra and a Piper Sport. Club dues and the instructor rate are not published; the site is dated 2013.

1. 1

   What do you charge per hour for flight instruction, and is ground instruction billed at the same rate?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site. Ground is often billed separately and at a different rate.

2. 2

   Does the instructor rate change for the Instrument, Commercial, or CFI, or is it flat across everything?Missing from their site

   Plenty of schools charge more for advanced instruction. A flat rate quoted for the Private can climb later.

3. 3

   What does the instructor cost per hour, and what are the club dues?Missing from their site

   The $100/hr covers the airplane, fuel and insurance; the instructor and membership are not priced.

4. 4

   Is the club still active?Missing from their site

   The site carries a 2013 copyright.

5. 5

   Do you offer block rates or prepay discounts, and what is the refund policy if I stop partway?

   Block discounts are common and rarely published. The refund terms matter more than the discount.

6. 6

   What do you charge for the written test, the checkride, and the examiner's fee?

   The DPE fee alone runs $800 to $1,200 in most of the country and is almost never in a quoted hourly rate.

7. 7

   How many trainers and how many full-time instructors do you have right now?

   Availability decides your pace, and pace decides your total more than the hourly rate does.

What to compare their answer against

Not Songbird's rates. The middle of what 15 Colorado schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Songbird is not in it.

What we checked

A light-sport flying club at Greeley with an all-in $100/hr aircraft rate and no instructor rate, on a site last dated 2013. Crawled September 5, 2026.