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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 12, 2026

What flight training costs at Ann Arbor flight schools

3 schools train out of Ann Arbor. 2 publish a full rate card, shown with the source and the date it was read, next to a PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate. The other one is listed with what they do publish.

Across the 2 Ann Arbor schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $109 to $125 per hour and instruction $60 to $75, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $14,573 and $14,855, with a median of $14,714.

One field: Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (ARB). Whole state instead? Michigan flight schools

Flight school costs in Ann Arbor, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Ann Arbor schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 1 listing without a full rate card is left out of every figure.

$14,714
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$109 to $125
Published trainer rental, per hour
$60 to $75
Published instruction, per hour
2 of 3
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Ann Arbor

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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.

Private estimate range across Ann Arbor

lowest $12.5Khighest $16.9K

  • Michigan Flyers

    Part not stated
    Lowest in MILargest fleet

    Ann Arbor, MI·michiganflyers.org

    Published rates

    $109/hr aircraft (wet)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet (fuel and tax included). Michigan Flyers is a nonprofit membership club: flying requires club dues (about $55/mo), which this estimate does not include. Instructors set their own rates ($60 to $75/hr); this estimate uses $75.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $14,573

    range $12.5K – $16.6K

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

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  • Solo Aviation

    Part 61

    Ann Arbor, MI·soloaviation.com

    Published rates

    $125/hr aircraft (wet)+$60/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Rates here are Solo's non-member column. Solo Flyers Club members pay about $20/hr less on each aircraft and $54/hr for instruction, which costs a $299 initiation fee plus $50/mo and requires a Private certificate. The card says rental rates include a BASE fuel price rather than fuel outright. A 3% fee applies to credit-card payments. Solo also flies from Jackson (KJXN) on the same card, and its Cirrus SR20 is not on it.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $14,855

    range $12.8K – $16.9K

    ~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.

  • ACE Aviation Center

    Part not stated

    Ann Arbor, MI·ARB·aviationcenter.aero

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Ann Arbor flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Ann Arbor?
Across the 2 Ann Arbor flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $109 to $125 per hour and instruction $60 to $75 per hour, checked as recently as September 12, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $14,573 and $14,855, with a median of $14,714. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Ann Arbor?
Michigan Flyers in Ann Arbor publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Ann Arbor schools listed here, $109 per hour for its Cessna 152, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked September 10, 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 Ann Arbor flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Ann Arbor 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 one more school in Ann Arbor is listed without an estimate because it does not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Ann Arbor airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (ARB) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Ann Arbor without one.

Estimates use the same method as every Michigan 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