Flight training at Bellator Aviation

1. 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. 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. 3

   What is the hourly rate on your cheapest trainer, and which airplane is that?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site, and it is the largest line on your bill.

4. 4

   Is that rate wet or dry, meaning does it include fuel?Missing from their site

   A dry rate and a wet rate are not comparable. Dry rates can run $40 to $60 an hour lower for the same airplane.

5. 5

   What are the single-engine and multi-engine rental rates, and the instruction rate?Missing from their site

   Bellator rents both single and multi-engine airplanes according to AOPA but publishes no site and no prices.

6. 6

   Is the Part 141 certificate approved yet?

   The school has been reported as planning to add Part 141 training pending FAA approval. Part 141 can matter for VA benefits and for reduced hour minimums.

7. 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. 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. 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.

What to compare their answer against

Not Bellator's rates. The middle of what 5 New Mexico schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Bellator is not in it.

What we checked

AOPA's record still carries `bellatoraviation.com` as this school's website, and that domain does not resolve as of August 12, 2026, so the listed address is stale rather than missing. Do not treat a future rediscovery of it as a new finding. Bellator was founded in 2019 by military aviation veterans at Las Cruces and is reported to run a high-school partnership with Las Cruces Public Schools. AOPA's finder lists Private through CFII and both single and multi-engine rental.