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What flight training costs at Utah flight schools

Across the 9 Utah schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $130 to $210 per hour and instruction $60 to $85, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $15,215 and $23,715, with a median of $18,025.

24 schools listed · Updated October 16, 2026

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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 Utah$13.1K$27K

  • Ascend Aviation

    Part not stated
    Lowest in UT

    Woods Cross, UT·ascendaviationtraining.com

    $130/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$60/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    Ascend rents to licensed pilots only after a checkout flight, and requires a renter's insurance policy, a rental agreement and a card on file. None of that is priced on the site. The $60/hr covers flight or ground instruction alike.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $15,215

    range $13.1K to $17.3K

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

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  • Upper Limit Aviation

    Part 61 & 141

    West Jordan, UT·upperlimitaviation.edu

    $140/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$75/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    Upper Limit publishes package totals by certificate alongside these hourly rates, and the two are consistent with each other. A flight simulator is $70/hr and is not modeled. Upper Limit also trains helicopter pilots and runs an associate-degree track, neither of which is modeled.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $16,805

    range $14.5K to $19.2K

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

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  • Airmotive Service

    Part not stated
    Largest fleet

    Brigham City, UT·airmotiveservice.com

    $152/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$68/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    Airmotive publishes two prices for every airplane, a cash rate and a card rate about $5 to $10 higher, and this estimate uses the cash rate. Instruction is $68/hr for Private students and $78/hr after the Private or in the Super Cub. A third rate, $88/hr for tailwheel instruction in an owner's aircraft, does not apply to the rental fleet.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $17,263

    range $14.8K to $19.7K

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

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  • True North Flight

    Part not stated

    Spring City, UT·truenorthflightadventures.com

    $165/hr aircraft (wet)·$65/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    True North's rate sheet is stamped "last updated July 2022, subject to change", so confirm the figures before budgeting. Instruction steps up by phase: $65/hr for the Private, $75/hr for Commercial and CFI work, and $95/hr for tailwheel. A nine-week live ground school is $400 and a backcountry canyon checkout is $500/day in your own airplane, neither of which is modeled.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $18,025

    range $15.5K to $20.5K

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

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  • West Desert Flight

    Part not stated

    Fairfield, UT·westdesertflight.com

    $165/hr aircraft (wet)·$65/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    West Desert trains for the Private and the Sport certificate in a single RANS S-21. Instruction is priced by landing gear rather than by rating: $65/hr on tricycle gear and $75/hr for tailwheel, with $80/hr in an owner's aircraft, which does not apply to the rental. The RANS S-20 Raven shown alongside it is offered for tailwheel work in your own airplane, not as a rental.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $18,025

    range $15.5K to $20.5K

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

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  • Cut and Snip Flyers

    Part not stated

    Ogden, UT·cutandsnipflyers.com

    $200/hr aircraft (wet)·$60/hr instructor

    Checked October 8, 2026·Source

    Cut and Snip publishes instruction as starting at $60/hr, so a higher rate may apply to some training, and it marks every figure subject to change.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $20,255

    range $17.4K to $23.1K

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

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  • Clear Creek Aviation

    Part not stated

    Richfield, UT·flyclearcreek.com

    $200/hr aircraft (dry, fuel billed separately)·$65/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    Clear Creek publishes its Cessna 182T DRY, so fuel is billed on top and is not included here. It also publishes an $85/hr multi-engine instruction rate but no multi-engine aircraft, so no multi estimate is shown. A Cirrus SR22T AATD simulator is $100/hr with the instructor included, and is not modeled. A checkout is required for insurance before any non-instruction rental.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $20,545

    range $17.7K to $23.4K

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

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  • Pilot Makers

    Part 61

    Provo, UT·pilotmakers.com

    $210/hr aircraft (wet)·$70/hr instructor

    Checked October 16, 2026·Source

    Instruction is priced per airplane: $70/hr in the Archer and the Cirrus, $85/hr in the Decathlon, the Extra and the Seminole. The aerobatic aircraft and the Seminole rent for dual instruction only, and a checkout with an instructor is required every 90 days to rent. Provo Municipal charges an airport badge fee, published on Pilot Makers' FAQ at $140, which is a real first-year cost most schools do not have.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $21,555

    range $18.5K to $24.6K

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

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  • Cornerstone Aviation

    Part 141

    Salt Lake City & Ogden, UT·cornerstoneaviation.com

    $210/hr aircraft (fuel basis not stated)·$80/hr instructor

    Checked October 12, 2026·Source

    This estimate uses Cornerstone's published hourly rates, which exclude fuel surcharges billed separately per their website.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $23,715

    range $20.4K to $27K

    ~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.

  • Above View Flight Training

    Part not stated

    St. George, UT·SGU·aboveviewfbo.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Above View does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Above View

  • Aerotech Aviation

    Part not stated

    West Jordan, UT·SVR·aerotechaviation.net

    No PilotBound estimate

    Aerotech does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Aerotech

  • Airgyro Aviation

    Part not stated

    Spanish Fork, UT·SPK·airgyro.com

    No PilotBound estimate

    Airgyro Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    What to ask Airgyro Aviation

Flight school costs in Utah, in numbers

Computed from the 9 Utah schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 15 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.

Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 9 schools with published rates
$18,025
Published trainer rental, per hour
$130 to $210
Published instruction, per hour
$60 to $85
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Lowest published trainer rates in Utah

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Airports with more than one Utah flight school

Discovery flights in Utah

7 Utah schools publish a discovery flight price, median $179. See each price with its source

How these estimates work

We apply one consistent method to every school: PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists (like the Private and Commercial) and FAA minimums where no credible public data exists (like the Instrument and CFI), times that school's published aircraft and instructor rates (linked on every card, with the date we verified them), plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out. Holding the hours model identical across schools means the only thing that changes card to card is the school's actual rates.

So the number is PilotBound's estimate, not the school's quote, and it will differ from a school's own cost figures, which are often based on FAA-minimum hours. The schools do not set or endorse it.

Want a number tied to your own pace and aircraft choice? Run the estimator or read the full methodology.

These estimates are ours, not the schools' quotes, and we are not affiliated with the schools. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime. Disclaimer & removal policy.

Common questions about Utah flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Utah?

Across the 9 Utah flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $130 to $210 per hour and instruction $60 to $85 per hour, checked as recently as October 16, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $15,215 and $23,715, with a median of $18,025. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.

What is the cheapest flight school in Utah?

Ascend Aviation in Woods Cross publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 9 Utah schools listed here, $130 per hour for its Cessna 152, a rate that does not say whether fuel is included, checked October 16, 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 Utah flight school rates?

Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Utah is October 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, and 15 more schools in Utah are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.