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What flight training costs at Gilford flight schools

4 schools train out of Gilford. 2 publish a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 2 are listed with what they do publish.

One field: Laconia Municipal Airport (LCI). Updated October 16, 2026 · All New Hampshire flight schools

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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 Gilford$15.6K$23.2K

  • Emerson Aviation

    Part not stated
    Lowest in NHLargest fleet

    Gilford, NH·emersonaviation.com

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

    Checked October 16, 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 to $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

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

    Checked October 12, 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 to $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

    $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

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  • Sky Bright

    Part not stated

    Gilford, NH·LCI·skybright.com

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    What to ask Sky Bright

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

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.

Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$19,214
Published trainer rental, per hour
$170 to $189
Published instruction, per hour
$60 to $75
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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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 October 16, 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 October 16, 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 October 16, 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.