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What flight training costs at Farmingdale flight schools

8 schools train out of Farmingdale. 3 publish a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 5 are listed with what they do publish.

One field: Republic Airport (FRG). Updated October 16, 2026 · All New York 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 Farmingdale$15.6K$24.4K

Estimates use the same method as every New York 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 Farmingdale, in numbers

Computed from the 3 Farmingdale schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 5 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 3 schools with published rates
$19,255
Published trainer rental, per hour
$155 to $192
Published instruction, per hour
$80 to $90
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Farmingdale flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Farmingdale?

Across the 3 Farmingdale flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $155 to $192 per hour and instruction $80 to $90 per hour, checked as recently as October 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $18,175 and $21,361, with a median of $19,255. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.

What is the cheapest flight school in Farmingdale?

Long Island Aviators in Farmingdale publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 3 Farmingdale schools listed here, $155 per hour for its Cessna 152, 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 Farmingdale flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Farmingdale 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 5 more schools in Farmingdale are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Which Farmingdale airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Republic Airport (FRG) with 8. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Farmingdale without one.