PilotBound

Published rates, sourced · Updated September 16, 2026

What flight training costs at Spokane flight schools

3 schools train out of Spokane. One publishes 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 2 are listed with what they do publish.

Northwest Flight Service in Spokane is the one Spokane school here with a full published rate card: $225 per hour for its Cessna 172N plus $115 per hour instruction, a PilotBound private pilot estimate of about $25,245.

One field: Spokane International Airport (GEG). Whole state instead? Washington flight schools

Flight school costs in Spokane, in numbers

Computed from the 1 Spokane 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.

$25,245
PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
$225/hr
Published trainer rental, per hour
$115/hr
Published instruction, per hour
1 of 3
Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)

Lowest published trainer rates in Spokane

Airports with Spokane flight schools

Estimate cost toflying
Showing 3 of 3 schools

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 Spokane

lowest $21.7Khighest $28.8K

  • Northwest Flight Service

    Part not stated

    Spokane, WA·nwflightservice.com

    Published rates

    $225/hr aircraft (wet)+$115/hr instructor

    Checked September 16, 2026·Source

    This estimate uses Northwest Flight Service's published non-club wet rates from its June 17, 2026 rate sheet. Club members pay $30/hr less on aircraft and $20/hr less on instruction, for $100 to join plus $100/month or $1,000/year. Cirrus Standardized instruction is billed by the day ($1,200 non-club), not by the hour. A 3% fee applies to credit card payments.

    PilotBound estimate · Private

    $25,245

    range $21.7K – $28.8K

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

    Add to my planNW Flight Service cost breakdown →
  • Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.

  • No Limits Aviation

    Part not stated

    Spokane, WA·GEG·nolimitsaviation.com

    Published rates

    $205/hr aircraft (dry, fuel billed separately)+instructor rate not published

    Checked September 13, 2026·Source

    Dry, and sold only in blocks, with no walk-up hourly rate. Flying alone costs $230/hr for a 25-hour block, $220/hr for 50 or $205/hr for 100. No Limits will also try to pair you with another pilot, and two pilots sharing pay $115, $110 or $102 an hour each over the same blocks. The figure above is the cheapest one pilot can fly for, which means committing to 100 hours.

    No PilotBound estimate

    No Limits does not publish an instructor rate

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

  • Parkwater Aviation

    Part not stated

    Spokane, WA·parkwateraviation.com

    Published rates

    aircraft rate not published+instructor rate not published

    No PilotBound estimate

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

    Nothing to total without it.

    See what to ask themWhat they do publish →

Flight schools in other Washington cities

All Washington flight schoolsFlight school costs by state

Common questions about Spokane flight schools

How much does flight school cost in Spokane?
Northwest Flight Service in Spokane is the one Spokane school here with a full published rate card: $225 per hour for its Cessna 172N and $115 per hour for instruction, checked September 16, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $25,245. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these Spokane flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check in Spokane 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, and 2 more schools in Spokane are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Which Spokane airports have flight schools?
One field carries the listed schools: Spokane International Airport (GEG) with 2. A school that does not state its field on the pages we read is counted in Spokane 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