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Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Knoxville flight schools

3 schools train out of Knoxville. All of them publish a full rate card, shown with the source and the date it was read, next to a PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate.

Across the 3 Knoxville schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $145 to $185 per hour and instruction $65 to $75, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $17,165 and $19,685, with a median of $19,465.

2 fields: Knoxville Downtown Island Airport (DKX) and Center Field (93TN). Whole state instead? Tennessee flight schools

Flight school costs in Knoxville, in numbers

Computed from the 3 Knoxville schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses.

$19,465
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 3 schools with published rates
$145 to $185
Published trainer rental, per hour
$65 to $75
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.

Private estimate range across Knoxville

lowest $14.8Khighest $22.4K

  • The CAVU Pilot

    Part 61
    Lowest in TN

    Knoxville, TN·thecavupilot.com

    Published rates

    $145/hr aircraft (wet)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked August 20, 2026·Source

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $17,165

    range $14.8K – $19.6K

    ~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.

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  • Knoxville Flight Training Academy

    Part not stated

    Knoxville, TN·knoxflight.com

    Published rates

    $185/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)+$65/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    Knoxville Flight Training prices every single-engine aircraft at $185/hr and adds an unquantified fuel surcharge on top. An instructor is required to rent, and solo rental of the Seminole is prohibited. The Seminole's $410/hr is the airplane alone: the school says instructor and fuel charges may apply on top. A full-motion simulator is $150/hr including the instructor, plus tax, and a multi-engine prepay is $5,990. Instruction in a customer's own aircraft is $85/hr, which does not apply to this fleet.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $19,465

    range $16.7K – $22.2K

    ~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.

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  • Fast Track Flight Training

    Part not stated
    Largest fleet

    Knoxville, TN·fasttrackflighttraining.com

    Published rates

    $180/hr aircraft (wet)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    This estimate uses Fast Track's published wet rates. Its multi-engine courses are also quoted at $500/hr wet including the instructor, which is the $425 aircraft plus the $75 instructor rather than a separate price. Ground instruction is charged at the same $75/hr.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $19,685

    range $16.9K – $22.4K

    ~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.

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Common questions about Knoxville flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Knoxville?
Across the 3 Knoxville flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $145 to $185 per hour and instruction $65 to $75 per hour, checked as recently as September 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $17,165 and $19,685, with a median of $19,465. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Knoxville?
The CAVU Pilot in Knoxville publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 3 Knoxville schools listed here, $145 per hour for its Cessna 150, a wet rate, so fuel is included in the hourly figure, checked August 20, 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 Knoxville flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Knoxville is September 16, 2026, and each card and school page shows the exact date its rates were read. The directory is re-checked on a monthly cycle. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Knoxville airports have flight schools?
2 fields carry the listed schools: Knoxville Downtown Island Airport (DKX) with 2, and Center Field (93TN) with one. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Knoxville without one.

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