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What flight training costs at Clearwater flight schools

4 schools train out of Clearwater. None publishes a full rate card, so each is listed with what it does publish.

2 fields: St Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) and Clearwater Exec Airport (CLW). Updated September 13, 2026 · All Florida flight schools

Showing 4 of 4 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.

  • Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.

  • Clearwater Aviation

    Part 141

    Clearwater, FL·PIE·clearwateraviation.com

    $195/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·5 aircraft published

    The whole fleet is priced wet and the multi-engine instructor is $105/hr, but no primary instruction rate exists anywhere: the Private is priced only as a Part 141 course total ($14,870 at the 35-hour minimum).

    No PilotBound estimate

    Clearwater does not publish an instructor rate

    What to ask Clearwater

  • FL Sky Aviation

    Part not stated

    Clearwater, FL·PIE·floridaskyaviation.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    FL Sky Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask FL Sky Aviation

  • Tampa Bay Aviation

    Part not stated

    Clearwater, FL·CLW·tampabayaviation.com

    $185/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·6 aircraft published

    Every aircraft carries its own page and its own price, from $185/hr for the older Skyhawks to $245 for the Piper Pilot 100i, all wet. THE SCHOOL'S OWN TRAINING PAGE DISAGREES with those pages: it says the aircraft "range from $120" an hour, and no airplane page shows anything below $185, so ask what the $120 airplane is before planning around it. A Robinson R44 is $585/hr. No instruction rate is published anywhere, and several airframes on the fleet index carry no price on their pages at all.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Tampa Bay does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Tampa Bay

  • V1 Aeronautical

    Part not stated

    Clearwater, FL·PIE·v1aeronautical.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    V1 does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask V1

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 in Clearwater, in numbers

None of the 4 Clearwater schools listed here publishes a full rate card, so there is no rate range and no estimate here, and nothing below is a figure.

Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Clearwater flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Clearwater?

None of the 4 Clearwater schools we track publishes a complete rate card, so we do not estimate a figure rather than guess one. Each listing shows what the school does publish and the exact questions to ask when you call, checked September 13, 2026.

Which Clearwater airports have flight schools?

2 fields carry the listed schools: St Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) with 3, and Clearwater Exec Airport (CLW) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Clearwater without one.