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Rates partly published · Louisville, KY

Flight training at Louisville Aviation

No instructor rate. Louisville Aviation publishes a $176/hr aircraft rate and nothing for instruction, so there is no total on this page.

Checked August 17, 2026 against AOPA flight school finder, Louisville Aviation at KLOU.

Based at
Bowman Field(LOU)
FAA part
Part 61
Trains
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · CFII
Website
louisvilleaviation.com

Section 1What is published

Louisville Aviation's own figures

Checked August 17, 2026 · Source

Aircraft: $176/hr

Nineteen aeroplanes 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.

Section 2Why there is no total

An estimate needs an instructor rate.

A training total is hours multiplied by rates. With instruction unpriced there is nothing to multiply, and we will not fill the gap with a plausible number: every figure on this site carries a link that shows it today.

  • Instructor rateMissing from their site

    Instruction is the second biggest line on a training bill, after the airplane.

What to compare their answer against

Not Louisville Aviation's rates. The middle of what 5 Kentucky schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

Trainer, medianWhat the airplane costsRange $145 to $230 per hour.
$160
Instruction, medianWhat the instructor costsAcross 5 schools with published rates.
$75

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

Section 3Paying for it

Two ways to pay for it.

Win what you can first, then borrow only what is left. Neither figure assumes anything about you: one is what our scholarship directory holds, the other is what the lenders publish.

Money you keepScholarships you could apply for46 open to anyone. Top awards reach $22,200.No Kentucky-only awards in the directory yet.
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Money you pay backLenders that fund flight trainingSix lenders, compared on the limits and rates they publish. That is what is on offer, not whether you would be approved.
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Section 4What to ask

What to ask when you call

The marked ones are what Louisville Aviation's site never answers. The rest are what turns an hourly rate into a real bill.

  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. 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. What does instruction cost per hour, in the aeroplane and on the ground?Missing from their site

    Nineteen aeroplanes are priced to the cent and no instructor rate appears anywhere on the site.

  4. Which aeroplane does the $225 one-hour flight lesson use?Missing from their site

    That price is stated to include fuel, rental and instructor, so it would give the instructor rate by subtraction, except that the 172s range from $176 to $196 and the page does not say which one you fly.

  5. Can you confirm the rate for the specific tail I would be flying?

    The aircraft page renders as a grid, and two reads of it paired the same aeroplane with two different prices.

  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. 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. 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.

Called them? Send us what they said.

Send the number over and Louisville Aviation gets a full listing with an estimate, marked as sourced by phone on the date you called.

Send what they told you

Section 5Nearby schools

One other school flies from Bowman Field.

It does not publish a rate either, so that one is a phone call too. LOU is the identifier to give when you ask.

Every school in the state

5 Kentucky schools publish a full rate card.

Each one has an estimate built on its own published rates. Listed alphabetically, because ordering them by price would be a ranking this page is not making.

All Kentucky flight schools

Section 6Sources

That the school exists
AOPA flight school finder, Louisville Aviation at KLOUChecked August 17, 2026
The rates above
Louisville Aviation aircraft pageChecked August 17, 2026

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