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What flight training costs at Abingdon flight schools

3 schools train out of Abingdon. 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: Virginia Highlands Airport (VJI). Updated September 13, 2026 · All Virginia 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 Abingdon$14.6K$19.4K

  • Highlands Aero Flight Center

    Part not stated

    Abingdon, VA·highlandsaero.com

    $155/hr aircraft (wet)·$60/hr instructor

    Checked September 12, 2026·Source

    Highlands Aero's fleet page gives the Alpha Trainer as $155 to $165 per hour and its course pages quote $155; the lower, repeated figure is used here. The Alpha Trainer is a two-seat light-sport aircraft and is the school's only aircraft, so the instrument and commercial training it advertises would not be flown in it. Block rates of $1,500 for 10 hours, $3,600 for 25 and $7,000 for 50 are published as an alternative.

    PilotBound estimate, Private

    $17,015

    range $14.6K to $19.4K

    ~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.

  • Dorton Aviation

    Part not stated

    Abingdon, VA·VJI·dortonaviation.com

    $185/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source

    A VIs X flight simulator rents for $30 per hour.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Dorton does not publish an instructor rate

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  • Icarus Time Building & Rentals

    Part not stated

    Abingdon, VA·VJI·icarus-tbr.com

    $125/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source·2 aircraft published

    Icarus sells prepaid blocks with a bonus credit, $150 on a small block and $1,000 on a big one; the funds do not expire and can be spent at the solo rate. Only the RV-12 is explicitly stated wet.

    No PilotBound estimate

    Icarus TB&R does not publish an instructor rate

    What to ask Icarus TB&R

Estimates use the same method as every Virginia 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 Abingdon, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Abingdon 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
$17,015
Published trainer rental, per hour
$155/hr
Published instruction, per hour
$60 to $70
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
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Common questions about Abingdon flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Abingdon?

Highlands Aero Flight Center in Abingdon is the one Abingdon school here with a full published rate card: $155 per hour for its Pipistrel Alpha Trainer 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 Abingdon flight school rates?

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

Which Abingdon airports have flight schools?

One field carries the listed schools: Virginia Highlands Airport (VJI) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Abingdon without one.