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Rates partly published · Rush City, MN

Flight training at Hawk Aviation

No instructor rate. Hawk Aviation publishes rates for all 2 of its airplanes and nothing for instruction, so there is no total on this page.

Checked August 14, 2026 against Hawk Aviation aircraft rental page.

Based at
Rush City Regional Airport(ROS)
FAA part
Not stated on their site
Website
hawk-aviation.com

Section 1What is published

Hawk Aviation's own figures

Checked August 14, 2026 · Source

Hawk Aviation published aircraft rates
AircraftPublished rateNotes
Cessna 172 Skyhawk$122/hrdryDRY: fuel is billed on top.
Piper PA-28-180$127/hrdryDRY: fuel is billed on top.

Both rates are published explicitly as dry rentals, so fuel is charged separately and the real hourly cost is meaningfully higher. An AATD simulator is $60/hr plus the instructor.

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 Hawk Aviation's rates. The middle of what 8 Minnesota schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

Trainer, medianWhat the airplane costsRange $85 to $215 per hour.
$150
Instruction, medianWhat the instructor costsAcross 8 schools with published rates.
$90

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Hawk 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, plus 2 in Minnesota. Top awards reach $22,200.
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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 Hawk 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. Your published rates are dry. Roughly what does fuel add per hour on the trainer?

    The published figures leave fuel out, so they understate the real hourly cost until you add it.

  4. What is the instructor rate per hour, and is multi-engine instruction priced above it?Missing from their site

    Both aeroplanes are priced and instruction is not, and Hawk's own navigation offers Multi-Engine, CFII and MEI.

  5. What does fuel add to the dry rate in practice?

    Both rates are explicitly dry, so the published figures are not comparable to the wet rates most schools quote.

  6. What does the twin cost per hour?

    Hawk offers Multi-Engine and MEI training and publishes no twin rate.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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Section 5Nearby schools

8 Minnesota 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 Minnesota flight schools

Section 6Sources

That the school exists
Hawk Aviation aircraft rental pageChecked August 14, 2026
The rates above
Hawk Aviation aircraft rental pageChecked August 14, 2026

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