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What flight training costs at Herlong (HEG)

2 schools train at Herlong Airport, Jacksonville. All of them publish a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate.

Updated October 8, 2026 · All Florida 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 Herlong$13K$19.8K

  • A-Cent Aviation

    Part 61 & 141
    Lowest in FLLargest fleet

    Jacksonville & Fernandina Beach, FL·a-centaviation.com

    $125/hr aircraft (wet)·$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    All aircraft prices include oil and fuel. A-Cent runs two bases, Herlong in Jacksonville and Fernandina Beach, and two sites. These rates come from the rental page on the Fernandina Beach site, which heads its fleet "Aircraft BASED AT HERLONG", so confirm which base an airplane flies from before planning around it. The instructor rate is on the Jacksonville site. A $5/hr block option is offered on every aircraft. The $75/hr rate is for instruction in your own aircraft and is not used here. An Elite PI-135 BATD is $49/hr plus $65/hr if an instructor is required.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $15,145

    range $13K to $17.3K

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

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  • Primary Flight Control

    Part not stated

    Jacksonville, FL·primaryflightcontrol.com

    $160/hr aircraft (wet)·$60/hr instructor

    Checked October 8, 2026·Source

    Rates include fuel, subject to the school's current fuel surcharge. Each aircraft's dual price is exactly its solo price plus $60, which is also the printed ground and flight-review rate. The tour and aerial-service prices on the pricing sheet are not training rates. Own-aircraft instruction is $75/hr.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $17,375

    range $14.9K to $19.8K

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

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Estimates use the same method as every Florida 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 at Herlong, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Herlong schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses.

Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$16,260
Published trainer rental, per hour
$125 to $160
Published instruction, per hour
$60 to $65
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Lowest published trainer rates at Herlong

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Common questions about flight schools at HEG

How much does flight school cost at Herlong?

Across the 2 Herlong flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $125 to $160 per hour and instruction $60 to $65 per hour, checked as recently as October 8, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $15,145 and $17,375, with a median of $16,260. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.

What is the cheapest flight school at Herlong?

A-Cent Aviation in Jacksonville & Fernandina Beach publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Herlong schools listed here, $125 per hour for its Cessna 150L, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked September 12, 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 Herlong flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check at Herlong is October 8, 2026, and each card and school page shows the exact date its rates were read. The directory is re-checked on a monthly cycle. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.