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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 12, 2026

What flight training costs at Farmingdale flight schools

8 schools train out of Farmingdale. 3 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 5 are listed with what they do publish.

Across the 3 Farmingdale schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $155 to $192 per hour and instruction $80 to $90, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $18,175 and $21,361, with a median of $19,255.

2 fields: Republic Airport (FRG) and August Field (NK17). Whole state instead? New York flight schools

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.

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

Lowest published trainer rates in Farmingdale

Part 141 flight schools in Farmingdale

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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

lowest $15.6Khighest $24.4K

  • Long Island Aviators

    Part not stated
    Lowest in NY

    Farmingdale, NY·longislandaviators.com

    Published rates

    $155/hr aircraft (wet)+$80/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,175

    range $15.6K – $20.7K

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

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  • Airborne Elite

    Part not stated

    Farmingdale, NY·flyforreal.com

    Published rates

    $170/hr aircraft (wet)+$80/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Airborne Elite bills by TACHOMETER time, not Hobbs, which runs slower and makes these rates cheaper in practice than the same number billed on Hobbs. Every aircraft is quoted wet. An ELITE-RC1 AATD is $40/hr.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $19,255

    range $16.6K – $22K

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

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  • Global Aviation Center

    Part 61 & 141
    Largest fleet

    Farmingdale, NY·globalaviationcenter.com

    Published rates

    $192/hr aircraft (wet)+$89/hr instructor

    Checked September 10, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet (fuel included). The figures shown are the cash price; card payments run a few dollars more per hour.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $21,361

    range $18.4K – $24.4K

    ~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.

  • Farmingdale Aviation

    Part 61

    Farmingdale, NY·FRG

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Farmingdale Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Icarus Flying Academy

    Part 61

    Farmingdale, NY·FRG

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Icarus does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Nassau Flyers

    Part 61

    Farmingdale, NY·FRG

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Nassau Flyers does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • O'Toole Airways

    Part 61

    Farmingdale, NY·FRG

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    O'Toole Airways does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Tasco Aviation

    Part not stated

    Farmingdale, NY·FRG

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Tasco does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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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 September 12, 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 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 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 September 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 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?
2 fields carry the listed schools: Republic Airport (FRG) with 7, and August Field (NK17) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Farmingdale without one.

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