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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 13, 2026

What flight training costs at Wadsworth flight schools

3 schools train out of Wadsworth. One publishes 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 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Avit Flight Academy in Wadsworth is the one Wadsworth school here with a full published rate card: $145 per hour for its Cessna 150 plus $55 per hour instruction, a PilotBound private pilot estimate of about $16,005.

2 fields: Weltzien Skypark Airport (15G) and Wadsworth Municipal Airport (3G3). Whole state instead? Ohio flight schools

Flight school costs in Wadsworth, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Wadsworth school that publishes 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.

$16,005
PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$145/hr
Published trainer rental, per hour
$55 to $80
Published instruction, per hour
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Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

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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 Wadsworth

lowest $13.8Khighest $18.2K

  • Avit Flight Academy

    Part not stated

    Wadsworth, OH·flyavit.com

    Published rates

    $145/hr aircraft (wet)+$55/hr instructor

    Checked August 7, 2026·Source

    Rates are wet and the sheet warns they "may be subject to a fuel surcharge depending on market conditions". Two aircraft are the exception and are published DRY: the Cessna 182Q at $206 and the Arrow IV at $161, the latter with an estimated 11 gallons an hour quoted in gallons rather than dollars, so no fuel figure is added to it here. The fleet is spread across six Ohio fields and the sheet says which aircraft sits where, so confirm your aircraft is at your airport. Instruction runs $55/hr basic, $65/hr advanced and $80/hr multi-engine; ground and simulator instruction is $55 at every tier except advanced, where it is $65. The two simulators are $60 and $70 an hour and both sell unlimited packages, $285 to $840 depending on length.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $16,005

    range $13.8K – $18.2K

    ~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.

  • NCB-Aviation

    Part not stated

    Wadsworth, OH·15G·ncb-aviation.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    NCB does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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  • Weltzien Skypark

    Part not stated

    Wadsworth, OH·15G·flyskypark.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+$40/hr instructor

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source

    Skypark publishes a full instructor rate card and no aircraft rate at all, which is the reverse of almost every other partial listing here. Instruction is $40/hr basic, described as the standard CFI rate recommended for initial training, $45/hr advanced for instrument and CFII work, and $50/hr for multi-engine. The site's own "Rental Rates" navigation link leads to a page that returns 404, so there is no fleet pricing to read. It is a privately owned public-use airport that also sells fuel, hangars and lodging.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Skypark does not publish an aircraft rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Wadsworth flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Wadsworth?
Avit Flight Academy in Wadsworth is the one Wadsworth school here with a full published rate card: $145 per hour for its Cessna 150 and $55 per hour for instruction, checked August 7, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $16,005. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these Wadsworth flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Wadsworth is September 13, 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 Wadsworth are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Wadsworth airports have flight schools?
2 fields carry the listed schools: Weltzien Skypark Airport (15G) with 2, and Wadsworth Municipal Airport (3G3) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Wadsworth without one.

Estimates use the same method as every Ohio 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