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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 12, 2026

What flight training costs at Louisiana 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 5 Louisiana schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $138 to $180 per hour and instruction $41 to $79, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $14,689 and $20,693, with a median of $18,343.

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 20 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 Louisiana

lowest $12.6Khighest $23.6K

  • Flightline Air Service

    Part not stated
    Lowest in LA

    Pineville, LA·flightlineairservice.com

    Published rates

    $138/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$41/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Flightline prices instruction by course, and its Private rate is the cheaper one: $41/hr for Private training and $45/hr for Sport. Instruction in a student's OWN aircraft is $50/hr in the air and $45/hr on the ground. Renters without their own aircraft insurance pay $10/hr more, and the school requires at least $30,000 of aircraft damage cover. Ground school is a one-time fee, $250 for sport and private and $280 for instrument. Multi-engine and float training are offered periodically by a visiting instructor at $375 and $275 per hour; the site does not say whether those figures include the instructor, so neither is modeled here. The site does not state whether rates include fuel.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $14,689

    range $12.6K – $16.7K

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

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  • Propell Air

    Part not stated

    DeRidder, LA·propellairllc.com

    Published rates

    $140/hr aircraft (wet)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Propell's rates include fuel and are billed off the Hobbs meter to the tenth of an hour. Complex and tailwheel endorsements are offered but no aircraft rate is published for either, so neither is modeled.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $16,805

    range $14.5K – $19.2K

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

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  • Fly By Knight

    Part 141

    Hammond, LA·flybyknight.biz

    Published rates

    $161/hr aircraft (wet)+$55/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Fly By Knight's rates are wet and quoted plus tax; tax is not included in this estimate.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,343

    range $15.8K – $20.9K

    ~78 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.

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  • Neu Aviation

    Part 61

    Shreveport, LA·neuaviation.com

    Published rates

    $180/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Neu 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

    $19,105

    range $16.4K – $21.8K

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

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  • Gulf Coast Aviation

    Part 141
    Largest fleet

    New Orleans, LA·gulfcoastaviation.com

    Published rates

    $180/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$69/hr instructor

    Checked August 6, 2026·Source

    Gulf Coast publishes no rate card. Every figure comes from its own per-course cost breakdowns, and they are trustworthy because each total multiplies out exactly. The aircraft and the instructor are billed SEPARATELY, which the solo lines make plain: a solo hour costs the same as a dual hour, and instruction is added on top. Instruction is priced per course and, unusually, gets CHEAPER as you advance: $69/hr for the Private, $72/hr for the Instrument, $65/hr for the Commercial and CFI, and $79/hr for multi-engine, the dearest tier. A full-motion simulator is $85/hr and is not modeled. Fuel basis not stated.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $20,693

    range $17.8K – $23.6K

    ~78 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 Reldan

    Part not stated

    Abita Springs, LA·L31

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Air Reldan does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • ArkLaMiss Aviation

    Part not stated

    Ruston, LA·arklamissaviation.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    ArkLaMiss does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Aviation Academy of Louisiana

    Part 141

    New Iberia, LA·ARA·aviationacademyla.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aviation Academy of Louisiana does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Cloud Chasers

    Part not stated

    Hammond, LA·HDC

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Cloud Chasers does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Cubs Floats and Fun

    Part not stated

    Pineville, LA·2L0·cubsfloatsandfun.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Cubs Floats and Fun does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Eunice Flying Service

    Part not stated

    Eunice, LA·4R7

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Eunice Flying Service does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Furyious Aviation

    Part not stated

    Shreveport, LA·DTN

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Furyious does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

Flight school costs in Louisiana, in numbers

Computed from the 5 Louisiana schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 15 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$18,343
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 5 schools with published rates
$138 to $180
Published trainer rental, per hour
$41 to $79
Published instruction, per hour
5 of 20
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Louisiana

Part 141 flight schools in Louisiana

Flight schools by city in Louisiana

Airports with more than one Louisiana flight school

Discovery flights in Louisiana

2 Louisiana schools publish a discovery flight price, median $150. 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 Louisiana flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Louisiana?
Across the 5 Louisiana flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $138 to $180 per hour and instruction $41 to $79 per hour, checked as recently as September 12, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $14,689 and $20,693, with a median of $18,343. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Louisiana?
Flightline Air Service in Pineville publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 5 Louisiana schools listed here, $138 per hour for its Cessna 172P, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included, checked September 12, 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 Louisiana flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Louisiana is September 12, 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 15 more schools in Louisiana are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.