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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 9, 2026

What flight training costs at Concord flight schools

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

Across the 2 Concord schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $125 to $185 per hour and instruction $55 to $55, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $14,565 and $18,885, with a median of $16,725.

One field: Concord-Padgett Regional Airport (JQF). Whole state instead? North Carolina flight schools

Flight school costs in Concord, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Concord schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 3 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$16,725
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$125 to $185
Published trainer rental, per hour
$55/hr
Published instruction, per hour
2 of 5
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Concord

Airports with Concord 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 Concord

lowest $12.5Khighest $21.5K

  • FlyCarolina

    Part 61
    Lowest in NCLargest fleet3 locations

    Concord, NC·flycarolina.com

    Published rates

    $125/hr aircraft (wet)+$55/hr instructor

    Checked September 9, 2026·Source

    Rates are the club's published member rates, which is what a Private student pays: the Student level costs $50 to join, carries no monthly dues and covers the 172s. Holders of a Private join at Bronze or above, $300 to join plus $200 a month with half of the dues credited to flying, and the retractables, the Cirrus, the Bonanza and the Baron need Silver or Gold. Instruction is $55/hr in the aircraft and on the ground. The school's cost page quotes a higher aircraft band of $137 to $190 an hour against the $125 to $152 its rate table prices the 172s at, and does not explain the difference. On wet aircraft, fuel bought away from base is credited back at the home field's price rather than what you paid. Every aircraft carries a 1.5 hour minimum per 24 hours when kept overnight. The Rock Hill aircraft are in South Carolina.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $14,565

    range $12.5K – $16.6K

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

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  • Victory Lane Aviation

    Part not stated

    Concord, NC·victorylaneaviation.com

    Published rates

    $185/hr aircraft (wet)+$55/hr instructor

    Checked September 8, 2026·Source

    Victory Lane also lists a fourth aircraft (N7952R) at $470/hr whose type it does not state, so it is excluded here pending confirmation. Its instruction line shows both $55 and $85/hr; this estimate uses the $55/hr rate, confirm which applies.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $18,885

    range $16.2K – $21.5K

    ~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.

  • Alpha One Air Service

    Part 61

    Concord, NC·JQF·alphaoneairservice.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Alpha One does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Fly Right

    Part not stated

    Concord, NC·JQF·flyrightinc.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Fly Right does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Tarheel Aero Tech

    Part 61

    Concord, NC·JQF

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Tarheel Aero Tech does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Concord flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Concord?
Across the 2 Concord flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $125 to $185 per hour and instruction $55 to $55 per hour, checked as recently as September 9, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $14,565 and $18,885, with a median of $16,725. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Concord?
FlyCarolina in Concord publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Concord schools listed here, $125 per hour for its Cessna Skyhawk, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked September 9, 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 Concord flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Concord is September 9, 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 3 more schools in Concord are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Concord airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Concord-Padgett Regional Airport (JQF) with 5. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Concord without one.

Estimates use the same method as every North Carolina 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