What flight training costs at Hillsboro flight schools
4 schools train out of Hillsboro. 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.
2 fields: Portland-Hillsboro Airport (HIO) and Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark (7S3). Updated October 17, 2026 · All Oregon flight schools
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.
Twin Oaks Airpark
Part not statedLowest in ORLargest fleetHillsboro, OR·flytwinoaks.com
$125/hr aircraft (wet)·$70/hr instructor
Checked October 12, 2026·Source
This estimate uses Twin Oaks' published wet rates. It does not include the current hourly fuel surcharge ($5 to $20 depending on aircraft), which Twin Oaks bills separately per their rate sheet.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$15,435
range $13.3K to $17.6K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planTwin Oaks cost breakdown →AeroForge Flight Training
Part 61Hillsboro, OR·forge.aero
$159/hr aircraft (wet)·$40/hr instructor
Checked October 17, 2026·Source
AeroForge gave its solo and ground rates to PilotBound directly on October 17, 2026: $159/hr for the RV-12iS solo, fuel included, and $50/hr for ground instruction. The $199/hr dual rate is on its site. Two lessons in the same week earn a 5% account credit and three or more earn 10%, about $179/hr dual for students who fly often.
PilotBound estimate, Private
$16,143
range $13.9K to $18.4K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planAeroForge cost breakdown →- Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.
NW Wings Aviation
Part not statedHillsboro, OR·HIO·nwwafly.com
$135/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published
Checked September 13, 2026·Source·5 aircraft published
Wet, but with an unquantified surcharge: "All rental rates are wet rates. A fuel surcharge is applied as a percentage of each hour charge to account for fluctuations in fuel prices." A Cirrus SR20 G7+ is in the fleet with "Contact for more information" in place of a rate.
TNG Aviation
Part not statedHillsboro, OR·HIO·touch-n-goes.com
No PilotBound estimate
TNG Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask TNG Aviation
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 Hillsboro, in numbers
Computed from the 2 Hillsboro 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
- $15,789
- Published trainer rental, per hour
- $125 to $159
- Published instruction, per hour
- $40 to $70
- Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
- 2 of 4
Lowest published trainer rates in Hillsboro
Airports with Hillsboro flight schools
Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark 7S3
Flight schools in other Oregon cities.
Common questions about Hillsboro flight schools
How much does flight school cost in Hillsboro?
Across the 2 Hillsboro flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $125 to $159 per hour and instruction $40 to $70 per hour, checked as recently as October 17, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $15,435 and $16,143, with a median of $15,789. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Hillsboro?
Twin Oaks Airpark in Hillsboro publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Hillsboro schools listed here, $125 per hour for its Cessna 150 VFR, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, 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 Hillsboro flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Hillsboro is October 17, 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 Hillsboro are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Hillsboro airports have flight schools?
2 fields carry the listed schools: Portland-Hillsboro Airport (HIO) with 3, and Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark (7S3) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Hillsboro without one.