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What flight training costs at Missoula flight schools

3 schools train out of Missoula. One publishes 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 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Northstar Jet Flight School in Missoula is the one Missoula school here with a full published rate card: $165 per hour for its aircraft plus $65 per hour instruction, a PilotBound private pilot estimate of about $18,025.

One field: Missoula Montana Airport (MSO). Whole state instead? Montana flight schools

Flight school costs in Missoula, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Missoula school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 2 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$18,025
PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$165/hr
Published trainer rental, per hour
$65/hr
Published instruction, per hour
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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 Missoula

lowest $15.5Khighest $20.5K

  • Northstar Jet Flight School

    Part 61

    Missoula, MT·neptuneaviation.com/flightschool/

    Published rates

    $165/hr aircraft (wet)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    The school publishes one blanket $165/hr wet aircraft rate (fuel included); individual aircraft/tails are not itemized. Instruction $65/hr.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,025

    range $15.5K – $20.5K

    ~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.

  • Foster Aviation

    Part not stated

    Missoula, MT·MSO·flyfosteraviation.com

    Published rates

    $200/hr aircraft+$60/hr instructor

    Checked October 12, 2026·Source

    Instruction is $60/hr for ground and flight, including backcountry instruction. The school's one airplane is a 1997 Citabria at $200/hr wet, used for tailwheel, spin, upset-recovery and backcountry training rather than for the Private. Private pilot training is flown in Minuteman Aviation's rental aircraft at the same airport, which Minuteman prices, or in your own airplane.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Foster Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Minuteman Aviation

    Part not stated

    Missoula, MT·MSO·minutemanaviation.net

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Minuteman does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Missoula flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Missoula?
Northstar Jet Flight School in Missoula is the one Missoula school here with a full published rate card: $165 per hour for its aircraft and $65 per hour for instruction, checked September 16, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $18,025. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these Missoula flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Missoula is October 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 2 more schools in Missoula are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Missoula airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Missoula Montana Airport (MSO) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Missoula without one.

Estimates use the same method as every Montana 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