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What flight training costs at Gainesville flight schools

3 schools train out of Gainesville. One publishes a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 2 are listed with what they do publish.

One field: Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport (GVL). Updated September 16, 2026 · All Georgia 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 Gainesville$15K$19.9K

Estimates use the same method as every Georgia 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 Gainesville, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Gainesville school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 2 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$17,445
Published trainer rental, per hour
$165/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$55 to $70
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Gainesville flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Gainesville?

SkyWings Aviation in Gainesville is the one Gainesville school here with a full published rate card: $165 per hour for its Cessna 150M and $55 per hour for instruction, checked September 16, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,445. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Gainesville flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Gainesville 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 2 more schools in Gainesville are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Which Gainesville airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport (GVL) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Gainesville without one.