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What flight training costs at Louisville flight schools

3 schools train out of Louisville. None publishes a full rate card, so each is listed with what it does publish and the questions that get its prices.

One field: Bowman Field (LOU). Whole state instead? Kentucky flight schools

Flight school costs in Louisville, in numbers

None of the 3 Louisville schools listed here publishes a full rate card, so there is no rate range and no estimate here, and nothing below is a figure.

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Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

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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.

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

  • Cardinal Wings Aviation

    Part 61

    Louisville, KY·LOU·cardinalwingsaviation.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Cardinal Wings does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Kentucky Flight Training Center

    Part not stated

    Louisville, KY·LOU·flykentucky.com

    Published rates

    $185/hr aircraft+instructor rate not published

    Checked October 13, 2026·Source·6 aircraft published

    Every airplane is $185/hr wet with taxes included: four Bristell NG5 light-sport two-seaters and two Cessna 172s, a 1975 172M and a 1999 172S. A Redbird full-motion simulator is $100/hr. Instruction is priced only inside packages, a 20-hour technically advanced aircraft course at $2,800 and an airline program at $52,000 to $80,000, and never by the hour.

    No PilotBound estimate

    KFTC does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Louisville Aviation

    Part 61

    Louisville, KY·LOU·louisvilleaviation.com

    Published rates

    $176/hr aircraft+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source

    Nineteen aircraft and a helicopter, every one labelled wet. The Cessna 172s run $176 to $196, a Cessna T182T Skylane G1000 is $295, a Cirrus SR-22 is $375, a Piper Aztec is $454 and a Bell 47G is $595. Per-tail figures are NOT recorded here: see the note.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Louisville Aviation does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

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Common questions about Louisville flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Louisville?
None of the 3 Louisville 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 October 13, 2026.
Which Louisville airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Bowman Field (LOU) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Louisville without one.

Estimates use the same method as every Kentucky 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