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What flight training costs at Greenville Downtown (GMU)

5 schools train at Greenville Downtown Airport, Greenville. One publishes a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 4 are listed with what they do publish.

Updated September 12, 2026 · All South Carolina 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 Greenville Downtown$14.6K$19.4K

Estimates use the same method as every South 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

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Flight school costs at Greenville Downtown, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Greenville Downtown school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 4 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$17,015
Published trainer rental, per hour
$155/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$60/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about flight schools at GMU

How much does flight school cost at Greenville Downtown?

Greenville Aviation in Greenville is the one Greenville Downtown school here with a full published rate card: $155 per hour for its Piper Cherokee 140 and $60 per hour for instruction, checked September 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $17,015. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Greenville Downtown flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check at Greenville Downtown 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 4 more schools at Greenville Downtown are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.

Can I take a discovery flight at GMU?

One of the 5 schools at Greenville Downtown Airport publishes a discovery flight price: USAeroFlight at $225, checked September 14, 2026. Each is the school's own published price, and the listing says what it includes.