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Flight training at Beach Banners

Jacksonville, FL · Rates partly published

No instructor rate. Beach Banners publishes rates for all 5 of its airplanes and nothing for instruction, so there is no total on this page.

Checked September 13, 2026 against Beach Banners site.

FAA part
Not stated on their site
Trains
PPL
Phone
904-642-0721
Website
beachbanners.com

What is published

Beach Banners's own figures

Checked September 13, 2026 · Source

Beach Banners published aircraft rates
AircraftPublished rateNotes
Cessna 150L (N11366)1973$129/hrWet. VFR only, standard six pack.
1968 Cessna 172K (N79015)1968$180/hrWet. N1180M, N46355 and the 172M N12732 are the same.
1983 Cessna 172Q (N66111)1983$190/hrWet. Technically advanced.
Cessna 172M (N42024)1974$195/hrWet.
1976 Cessna 182P (N1311S)1976$235/hrWet. Technically advanced; the 182Q N26GR is $250.

Airframes built 1968 to 1983. Years of manufacture from the FAA aircraft registry, read October 21, 2026.

Nine IFR-certified aircraft, each with a wet rental rate on its own page. This is a banner-towing and aerial-photography operator that rents and trains alongside; the instructor is not priced.

Why there is no total

An estimate needs an instructor rate.

A training total is hours multiplied by rates. With instruction unpriced there is nothing to multiply, and we will not fill the gap with a plausible number: every figure on this site carries a link that shows it today.

  • Instructor rateMissing from their site

    Instruction is the second biggest line on a training bill, after the airplane.

What to compare their answer against

Not Beach Banners's rates. The middle of what 43 Florida schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

Trainer, medianWhat the airplane costsRange $105 to $380 per hour.
$169
Instruction, medianWhat the instructor costsAcross 43 schools with published rates.
$70

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

Paying for it

Two ways to pay for it.

Win what you can first, then borrow only what is left. Neither figure assumes anything about you: one is what our scholarship directory holds, the other is what the lenders publish.

Money you keepScholarships you could apply for50 open to anyone, plus 2 in Florida. Top awards reach $22,200.
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Money you pay backLenders that fund flight trainingSix lenders, compared on the limits and rates they publish. That is what is on offer, not whether you would be approved.
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What to ask

What to ask when you call

The marked ones are what Beach Banners's site never answers. The rest are what turns an hourly rate into a real bill.

904-642-0721

  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. 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. What does an instructor cost per hour?Missing from their site

    Nine airplanes are priced wet and the instruction beside them is not.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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In the app

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Nearby schools

43 Florida schools publish a full rate card.

Each one has an estimate built on its own published rates. Listed alphabetically, because ordering them by price would be a ranking this page is not making.

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Sources

That the school exists
Beach Banners siteChecked September 13, 2026
The rates above
Beach Banners fleet pageChecked September 13, 2026

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