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What flight training costs at Aurora flight schools

4 schools train out of Aurora. 2 publish a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 2 are listed with what they do publish.

One field: Aurora State Airport (UAO). Updated October 12, 2026 · All Oregon 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 Aurora$14K$22.4K

  • Willamette Aviation

    Part not stated
    Lowest in ORLargest fleet

    Aurora, OR·willametteair.com

    $129/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$80/hr instructor

    Checked October 12, 2026·Source

    Willamette Aviation does not say whether its published rates include fuel. This estimate uses the rate exactly as published, so ask before you budget: a dry rate adds roughly $30 to $60 per hour once fuel is on top.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $16,303

    range $14K to $18.6K

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

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  • Sasquatch Aviation

    Part not stated

    Aurora, OR·sasquatch.aero

    $175/hr aircraft (wet)·$80/hr instructor

    Checked October 8, 2026·Source

    This estimate uses Sasquatch Aviation's published wet rates, which the school states include fuel with no surcharge. The school now calls a Diamond DA40 its flagship trainer and lists a Cessna 177RG as coming soon, and neither carries a price, so neither is in this estimate. A Redbird FMX is $78/hr with the same $80/hr instruction, and a $149 Flight Lab session runs two to three hours; neither is modeled.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $19,615

    range $16.9K to $22.4K

    ~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.

  • Aurora Flight Training

    Part 61 & 141

    Aurora, OR·UAO·auroraflighttraining.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aurora Flight Training does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Aurora Flight Training

  • Pacific Flight

    Part 61 & 141

    Aurora, OR·UAO

    No PilotBound estimate

    Pacific Flight does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Pacific Flight

Estimates use the same method as every Oregon 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 Aurora, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Aurora schools that publish 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.

Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$17,959
Published trainer rental, per hour
$129 to $175
Published instruction, per hour
$80/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Aurora flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Aurora?

Across the 2 Aurora flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $129 to $175 per hour and instruction $80 to $80 per hour, checked as recently as October 12, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $16,303 and $19,615, with a median of $17,959. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.

What is the cheapest flight school in Aurora?

Willamette Aviation in Aurora publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Aurora schools listed here, $129 per hour for its Cessna 150, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included, checked October 12, 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 Aurora flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Aurora is October 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 2 more schools in Aurora are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Which Aurora airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Aurora State Airport (UAO) with 4. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Aurora without one.