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What flight training costs at Arlington flight schools

3 schools train out of Arlington. 2 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. The other one is listed with what they do publish.

Across the 2 Arlington schools here with published rates, trainer rentals run $152 to $220 per hour and instruction $70 to $75, and PilotBound's private pilot estimate lands between $17,379 and $22,565, with a median of $19,972.

One field: Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO). Whole state instead? Washington flight schools

Flight school costs in Arlington, in numbers

Computed from the 2 Arlington schools that publish both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card below uses. The 1 listing without a full rate card is left out of every figure.

$19,972
Median PilotBound Private estimate across the 2 schools with published rates
$152 to $220
Published trainer rental, per hour
$70 to $75
Published instruction, per hour
2 of 3
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 Arlington

lowest $14.9Khighest $25.7K

  • Arlington Flight Services

    Part not stated
    Lowest in WALargest fleet

    Arlington, WA·arlingtonflightservices.org

    Published rates

    $152/hr aircraft (dry, fuel billed separately)+$70/hr instructor

    Checked August 17, 2026·Source

    Arlington's rates are dry, so fuel is billed on top and is not included in this estimate. The word "dry" appears on the three VFR aircraft's own pages; the two IFR-equipped tails are priced on the home page without restating it.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $17,379

    range $14.9K – $19.8K

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

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  • Mission Aviation Training Academy

    Part 61 & 141

    Arlington, WA·mata-usa.org

    Published rates

    $220/hr aircraft (wet)+$75/hr instructor

    Checked September 14, 2026·Source

    MATA prices every line of its fee schedule twice, and the figures here are the non-mission rates, which is what a student who is not a missionary trainee pays. Mission students pay $150/hr in the Cessna 172/177, $175 in the Cessna 172 Alaska, $200 in the Cessna 180, $215 in the Cessna U206, $50 in the simulator and $45/hr for instruction. Aircraft rates are wet. Non-mission students are taken on a space available basis. Every student keeps a refundable $200 deposit on account while training.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $22,565

    range $19.4K – $25.7K

    ~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.

  • Northway Aviation

    Part not stated

    Arlington, WA·AWO

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

    Northway does not publish a website, an aircraft rate and an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

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Common questions about Arlington flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Arlington?
Across the 2 Arlington flight schools here that publish full rates, trainer rentals run $152 to $220 per hour and instruction $70 to $75 per hour, checked as recently as September 14, 2026. On each school's own published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate between $17,379 and $22,565, with a median of $19,972. These are PilotBound estimates built on published rates, not quotes from the schools.
What is the cheapest flight school in Arlington?
Arlington Flight Services in Arlington publishes the lowest trainer rental of the 2 Arlington schools listed here, $152 per hour for its Cessna 172P, a dry rate, so fuel is billed separately on top, checked August 17, 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 Arlington flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Arlington is September 14, 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 one more school in Arlington is listed without an estimate because it does not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Arlington airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO) with 3. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Arlington without one.

Estimates use the same method as every Washington 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