Flight training at Revv Aviation

Every figure Revv publishes is a FROM price, not a rate: the site says "Cessna 172s from $175/hr" and never gives a per-tail number, so the real rate for the airplane you fly may be higher. The site also does not say whether fuel is included.

1. 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. 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. 3

   Do the published aircraft rates include fuel, or is fuel billed separately?

   The site does not say, and it is the difference between two rates that look identical and are not.

4. 4

   What does the airplane actually cost, rather than what does it start from?

   Every published price is a "from" figure. The spread between the cheapest and dearest tail in a type is exactly what the site leaves out.

5. 5

   Are you still training at Muscatine and Davenport?

   Revv absorbed Carver Aero, whose Muscatine and Davenport bases still appear in AOPA. Revv's own site now lists only Aurora, Council Bluffs and Omaha, and carveraero.com redirects here.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.

What to compare their answer against

Not Revv's rates. The middle of what 5 Iowa schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

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

What we checked

A three-state operator (Aurora IL, Council Bluffs IA, Omaha NE) with the largest published fleet found in Iowa, and no instruction rate anywhere across 30 crawled pages. AOPA still lists Revv at Muscatine and Davenport, the old Carver Aero bases; Revv's own site does not. Checked August 6, 2026.