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What flight training costs at Chattanooga flight schools

3 schools train out of Chattanooga. One publishes 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: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) (CHA). Updated November 13, 2026 · All Tennessee 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 Chattanooga$13.1K$17.4K

  • Hixson Aviation Flying Club

    Part not stated

    Chattanooga, TN·hixsonaviation.com

    $135/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$55/hr instructor

    Checked November 12, 2026·Source

    It's a flying club with $20 a year in dues. Multi-engine training is a $5,495 course covering ten hours, with $495/hr beyond that. It isn't stated whether that hourly figure includes the instructor.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $15,285

    range $13.1K to $17.4K

    ~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.

  • Crystal Air

    Part 61

    Chattanooga, TN·CHA·flycrystalair.com

    $140/hr aircraft·$70/hr instructor

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·3 aircraft published

    Three aircraft have a single price. The two trainers are priced as ranges: the Cessna 172 at $190 to $275/hr on one page and $190 to $245/hr on another, and the Vans RV-12 at $140 to $160/hr. The two pages disagree on the top of the 172's range.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Crystal Air does not publish a trainer rate

    What to ask Crystal Air

  • Moccasin Flying Club

    Part not stated

    Chattanooga, TN·mocfly.org

    $155/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked November 13, 2026·Source

    The Archer is billed on Hobbs time; the club does not say whether fuel is included. Equity membership, for pilots and student pilots, is a $1,000 buy-in and $175 a month.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Moccasin does not publish an instructor rate

    What to ask Moccasin

Estimates use the same method as every Tennessee 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 Chattanooga, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Chattanooga 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.

PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$15,285
Published trainer rental, per hour
$135/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$55/hr
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Chattanooga flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Chattanooga?

Hixson Aviation Flying Club in Chattanooga is the one Chattanooga school here with a full published rate card: $135 per hour for its Cessna 152 and $55 per hour for instruction, checked November 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $15,285. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.

How current are these Chattanooga flight school rates?

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

Which Chattanooga airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) (CHA) with 2. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Chattanooga without one.