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Rates partly published · Maryland Heights, MO

Flight training at Gateway Flight Training

No instructor rate. Gateway publishes rates for all 4 of its airplanes and nothing for instruction, so there is no total on this page.

Checked August 13, 2026 against AOPA flight school finder, Gateway Flight Training at 1H0.

Based at
Creve Coeur Airport(1H0)
FAA part
Not stated on their site
Phone
314-780-7899
Website
gatewayflight.com

Section 1What is published

Gateway's own figures

Checked September 13, 2026 · Source

Gateway Flight Training published aircraft rates
AircraftPublished rateNotes
Piper Warrior II PA28-161 (two aircraft)$140/hrdryFour seats, 160 hp. The trainer.
Beechcraft Sundowner C23$140/hrdryFour seats, 180 hp.
Piper Arrow PA28R-180$150/hrdryRetractable, and 15 hours of complex time are required before solo.
Beechcraft Debonair 35-C33$195/hrdryFour seats, 235 hp. High performance.

Gateway's rates are stated DRY, so fuel is billed on top of every figure here, which is unusual in this directory and makes these rates look cheaper than they are against a wet-rate school. $140/hr covers its instrument-capable trainers, $150/hr the complex Arrow, and $195/hr the Debonair. A Cessna 310R is listed with no price yet.

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 Gateway's rates. The middle of what 6 Missouri schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

Trainer, medianWhat the airplane costsRange $81 to $184 per hour.
$150
Instruction, medianWhat the instructor costsAcross 6 schools with published rates.
$65

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Gateway 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 for51 open to anyone. Top awards reach $22,200.No Missouri-only awards in the directory yet.
51
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.
6
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Section 4What to ask

What to ask when you call

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

314-780-7899

  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 does instruction cost, and what does fuel add to the dry rate?Missing from their site

    Both halves matter here: the instruction rate is unpublished AND the aircraft rates exclude fuel, so the quoted figure is not the hourly cost.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 5In the app

Track your training at Gateway.

Gateway Flight Training is in the PilotBound app. Choose Gateway when you set up and enter the rates it gives you; the app prices your training on them and tracks every flight you log against the projection.

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Section 6Nearby schools

2 other schools fly from Creve Coeur Airport.

None of them publishes a rate, so every one is a phone call. 1H0 is the identifier to give when you ask.

Every school in the state

6 Missouri 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 Missouri flight schools

Section 7Sources

That the school exists
AOPA flight school finder, Gateway Flight Training at 1H0Checked August 13, 2026
The rates above
Gateway Flight Training rentals pageChecked September 13, 2026

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