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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 13, 2026

What flight training costs at Gilford flight schools

4 schools train out of Gilford. 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 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Across the 2 Gilford schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $170 to $189 per hour and instruction $60 to $75, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $18,095 and $20,333, with a median of $19,214.

One field: Laconia Municipal Airport (LCI). Whole state instead? New Hampshire flight schools

Flight school costs in Gilford, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Gilford schools that publish 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.

$19,214
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$170 to $189
Published trainer rental, per hour
$60 to $75
Published instruction, per hour
2 of 4
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Gilford

Airports with Gilford flight schools

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Showing 4 of 4 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 Gilford

lowest $15.6Khighest $23.2K

  • Emerson Aviation

    Part not stated
    Lowest in NHLargest fleet

    Gilford, NH·emersonaviation.com

    Published rates

    $170/hr aircraft (wet)+$60/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Estimate uses Emerson's pay-as-you-go rates. 10-hour blocks lower aircraft to $157.50-$225/hr and instruction to $55/hr per their site.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,095

    range $15.6K – $20.6K

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

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  • Laconia Flight Academy

    Part not stated

    Gilford, NH·laconiaflightacademy.com

    Published rates

    $189/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 5, 2026·Source

    The Warrior is $189/hr and instruction $75/hr, both from the school's own programme estimates, which put the Private at about $12,700. The aircraft page does not say whether fuel is included. A Redbird FMX simulator is also listed.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $20,333

    range $17.5K – $23.2K

    ~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.

  • Mike Goulian Aviation

    Part not stated

    Gilford, NH·LCI·mikegoulianaviation.com

    Published rates

    $450/hr aircraft+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·5 aircraft published

    The aircraft rates are published cleanly and the site does not say whether fuel is included. Simulators are $125/hr for the G6 and $225/hr for the G7. These are among the highest aircraft rates in the directory, which follows from an all-Cirrus fleet: the cheapest aircraft here costs more per hour than most schools' twins.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Mike Goulian Aviation does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Sky Bright

    Part not stated

    Gilford, NH·LCI·skybright.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Sky Bright does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Gilford flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Gilford?
Across the 2 Gilford flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $170 to $189 per hour and instruction $60 to $75 per hour, checked as recently as September 13, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $18,095 and $20,333, with a median of $19,214. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Gilford?
Emerson Aviation in Gilford publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Gilford schools listed here, $170 per hour for its Piper Archer PA-28-180, 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 Gilford flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Gilford is September 13, 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 Gilford are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Gilford airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Laconia Municipal Airport (LCI) with 4. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Gilford without one.

Estimates use the same method as every New Hampshire 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