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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Idaho flight schools

Every listing shows the school's own published rates with the source and date, next to an honest PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate. Add any school to your plan to map your whole route on their real rates.

Across the 6 Idaho schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $150 to $200 per hour and instruction $30 to $78, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $16,435 and $20,835, with a median of $17,623.

Search, filter by city, and sort by cost. Each card marks where it falls among the state's schools on cost. Estimates are ours, not quotes, and we are not affiliated with these schools. See a wrong number? Every card has a correct-this-listing link.

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Showing 1–12 of 22 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.

Private estimate range across Idaho

lowest $14.1Khighest $23.8K

  • Glass Cockpit Aviation

    Part not stated
    Lowest in IDLargest fleet2 locations

    Boise & Twin Falls, ID·glasscockpitaviation.com

    Published rates

    $155/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$50/hr instructor

    Checked September 8, 2026·Source

    Glass Cockpit Aviation does not say whether its published rates include fuel. This estimate uses the rate exactly as published, so ask before you budget: a dry rate adds roughly $30 to $60 per hour once fuel is on top.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $16,435

    range $14.1K – $18.7K

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

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  • American Made Aviation

    Part 61

    Mountain Home, ID·americanmadeaviation.com

    Published rates

    $150/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 5, 2026·Source

    One Van's RV-12iS light sport airplane at $150/hr for instructional or personal use, with a $1,350 ten-hour pre-pay; the rates page does not say whether fuel is included. Instruction is $65/hr for Sport, Recreational and Private work and $75/hr for instrument, commercial, instructor and ATP work. Those advanced ratings are taught in a student's own aircraft, because a special light-sport aircraft cannot be used for an instrument rating, so only the Private is listed as taught here.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $16,945

    range $14.6K – $19.3K

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

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  • Silverhawk Aviation Academy

    Part 61 & 141
    2 locations

    Caldwell, ID·silverhawkaviation.net

    Published rates

    $180/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$30/hr instructor

    Checked September 8, 2026·Source

    Silverhawk publishes solo and dual rates; this estimate uses the published solo aircraft rate plus the instructor portion implied by its dual rate. Complex (172RG) and multi-engine training are quoted dual-only on their site.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $17,075

    range $14.7K – $19.5K

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

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  • Snake River Flight Training

    Part not stated

    Caldwell, ID·snakeriverflyers.com

    Published rates

    $163/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet, plus Idaho sales tax. Rentals are restricted to enrolled students (no non-student rental). Instructor rates run $70-$80/hr depending on the instructor.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,171

    range $15.6K – $20.7K

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

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  • Teton Aviation Center

    Part not stated

    Driggs, ID·tetonaviation.com

    Published rates

    $182/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$71/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    This estimate uses Teton Aviation's published 2026 rates. Instruction is priced by rating: $71/hr basic, $78/hr for instrument and commercial, and $83/hr for mountain and scenic work. Rental checkouts are for local pilots only. The site does not say whether fuel is included.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $19,597

    range $16.9K – $22.3K

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

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  • Coeur d'Alene Aviation

    Part 61

    Hayden, ID·flycoe.com

    Published rates

    $200/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet. The $70/hr instructor figure is derived from the school's published solo and dual rates, which differ by exactly $70 on all three types: $200 and $270 on the 172K, $180 and $250 on the Tecnam and the RV-12. The two light-sport types are the cheapest tails on the card and are not the default trainer here, since the school's certificate training is priced around the Cessna.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $20,835

    range $17.9K – $23.8K

    ~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.

  • Air-O-Drome Aviation

    Part 61

    Caldwell, ID·EUL·airidaho.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Air-O-Drome does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Altitude Aviation Services

    Part 61

    Mountain Home, ID·U76

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Altitude Aviation does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • AvCenter

    Part 61

    Idaho Falls, ID·IDA·avcenter.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    AvCenter does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Aviation Specialties Unlimited

    Part not stated

    Boise, ID·BOI·asu-nvg.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aviation Specialties does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Copter Doctor Plus

    Part 61

    Rexburg, ID·RXE

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Copter Doctor does not publish a website, an aircraft rate, an instructor rate and a list of ratings taught

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Granite Aviation

    Part not stated

    Sandpoint, ID·SZT·granite-aviation.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Granite does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Flight school costs in Idaho, in numbers

Computed from the 6 Idaho schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 16 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$17,623
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 6 schools with published rates
$150 to $200
Published trainer rental, per hour
$30 to $78
Published instruction, per hour
6 of 22
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Idaho

Part 141 flight schools in Idaho

Flight schools by city in Idaho

Airports with more than one Idaho flight school

Discovery flights in Idaho

2 Idaho schools publish a discovery flight price, median $165. See each price with its source

How these estimates work

We apply one consistent method to every school: PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists (like the Private and Commercial) and FAA minimums where no credible public data exists (like the Instrument and CFI), times that school's published aircraft and instructor rates (linked on every card, with the date we verified them), plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out. Holding the hours model identical across schools means the only thing that changes card to card is the school's actual rates.

So the number is PilotBound's estimate, not the school's quote, and it will differ from a school's own cost figures, which are often based on FAA-minimum hours. The schools do not set or endorse it.

Want a number tied to your own pace and aircraft choice? Run the estimator or read the full methodology.

These estimates are ours, not the schools' quotes, and we are not affiliated with the schools. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime. Disclaimer & removal policy.

Common questions about Idaho flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Idaho?
Across the 6 Idaho flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $150 to $200 per hour and instruction $30 to $78 per hour, checked as recently as September 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $16,435 and $20,835, with a median of $17,623. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Idaho?
American Made Aviation in Mountain Home publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 6 Idaho schools listed here, $150 per hour for its Van's RV-12iS light sport, Garmin glass, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included, checked September 5, 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 Idaho flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Idaho 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 16 more schools in Idaho are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.