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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Jacksonville flight schools

3 schools train out of Jacksonville. 2 publish a full rate card, shown with the source and the date it was read, next to a PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate. The other one is listed with what they do publish.

Across the 2 Jacksonville schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $150 to $160 per hour and instruction $60 to $80, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $17,375 and $17,815, with a median of $17,595.

2 fields: Herlong Airport (HEG) and Jacksonville International Airport (JAX). Whole state instead? Florida flight schools

Flight school costs in Jacksonville, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Jacksonville schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 1 listing without a full rate card is left out of every figure.

$17,595
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$150 to $160
Published trainer rental, per hour
$60 to $80
Published instruction, per hour
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Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Jacksonville

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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 Jacksonville

lowest $14.9Khighest $20.3K

  • Primary Flight Control

    Part not stated
    Lowest in FL

    Jacksonville, FL·primaryflightcontrol.com

    Published rates

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

    Checked September 1, 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 – $19.8K

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

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  • Holladay Aviation

    Part not stated
    Largest fleet

    Jacksonville, FL·holladayaviation.com

    Published rates

    $150/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$80/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    Holladay does not state whether its aircraft rates include fuel. Instruction is billed separately at $80/hr. All aircraft carry Garmin avionics with ADS-B traffic and weather. The school also runs ultralight safety training at Hilliard, which is not priced here.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $17,815

    range $15.3K – $20.3K

    ~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.

  • Beach Banners

    Part not stated

    Jacksonville, FL·beachbanners.com

    Published rates

    $129/hr aircraft+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·5 aircraft published

    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.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Beach Banners does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Jacksonville flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Jacksonville?
Across the 2 Jacksonville flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $150 to $160 per hour and instruction $60 to $80 per hour, checked as recently as September 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $17,375 and $17,815, with a median of $17,595. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Jacksonville?
Holladay Aviation in Jacksonville publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Jacksonville schools listed here, $150 per hour for its Cessna 150, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included, checked September 16, 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 Jacksonville flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Jacksonville is September 16, 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 one more school in Jacksonville is listed without an estimate because it does not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Jacksonville airports have flight schools?
2 fields carry the listed schools: Herlong Airport (HEG) with one, and Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Jacksonville without one.

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