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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 13, 2026

What flight training costs at North Charleston flight schools

3 schools train out of North Charleston. 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.

CRAFT Flight Training & Simulation in North Charleston is the one North Charleston school here with a full published rate card: $255 per hour for its Diamond DA40 NG plus $65 per hour instruction, a PilotBound private pilot estimate of about $26,295.

One field: Charleston International Airport (CHS). Whole state instead? South Carolina flight schools

Flight school costs in North Charleston, in numbers

Computed from the 1 North Charleston 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.

$26,295
PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$255/hr
Published trainer rental, per hour
$65 to $75
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 North Charleston

lowest $22.6Khighest $30K

  • CRAFT Flight Training & Simulation

    Part 141

    North Charleston, SC·flycraftchs.com

    Published rates

    $255/hr aircraft (wet)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 9, 2026·Source

    All rates are wet and billed in tenths of an hour. Instruction is $65/hr for a Private student and $75/hr for the instrument, commercial, instructor and multi-engine ratings, and both figures cover ground and flight time including briefings. The Redbird simulator is $100/hr with an instructor already inside that rate. The school also sells fixed-price accelerated courses alongside the hourly rates, and prices extra dual on those at the standard hourly figure.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $26,295

    range $22.6K – $30K

    ~78 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.

  • Charleston Flight School

    Part not stated

    North Charleston, SC·chsflightschool.com

    Published rates

    $170/hr aircraft+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·21 aircraft published

    Charleston publishes these as Aviation Club Membership Rates; its site also advertises pay as you go with no recurring monthly fees. Confirm any membership terms with the school.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Charleston does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • IFR6

    Part 61

    North Charleston, SC·CHS·ifr6.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    IFR6 does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

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Common questions about North Charleston flight schools

How much does flight school cost in North Charleston?
CRAFT Flight Training & Simulation in North Charleston is the one North Charleston school here with a full published rate card: $255 per hour for its Diamond DA40 NG and $65 per hour for instruction, checked September 9, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $26,295. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these North Charleston flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in North Charleston 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 North Charleston are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which North Charleston airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Charleston International Airport (CHS) with 2. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in North Charleston 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