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What flight training costs at Greenville flight schools

6 schools train out of Greenville. 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 5 are listed with what they do publish.

Greenville Aviation in Greenville is the one Greenville school here with a full published rate card: $155 per hour for its Piper Cherokee 140 plus $60 per hour instruction, a PilotBound private pilot estimate of about $17,015.

One field: Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU). Whole state instead? South Carolina flight schools

Flight school costs in Greenville, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Greenville school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 5 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

$17,015
PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$155/hr
Published trainer rental, per hour
$60/hr
Published instruction, per hour
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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.

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Common questions about Greenville flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Greenville?
Greenville Aviation in Greenville is the one Greenville 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 flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Greenville 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is re-checked on a monthly cycle, and 5 more schools in Greenville are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Greenville airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) with 5. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Greenville without one.

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