Take the controls with a certified instructor beside you — from a first discovery flight to your Commercial and instructor certificates. Training from $110 an hour.
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Three ways to fly. Open the one that fits — see the commitment and exactly where to start.
Never flown before? Sit up front and take the controls over Sacramento with a certified instructor beside you — the easiest, lowest-pressure way to find out if flying is for you. It also makes a very good present.
Earn the certificate that lets you fly friends and family. Train one-on-one in our Cessna 172S, buy hours as you go, and fly as often as your week allows — we fly every day from 7 AM to 7 PM.
Carry on past the Private to the certificates that pay: Commercial, then the instructor ratings that let you build hours while teaching. U.S. citizenship is not required to train with us.
Flight education is priced by the hour, and you can buy a single hour at a time.
Four aircraft, owned by the school and flown every day out of Sacramento McClellan: a Cessna 150 to learn in, an IFR-equipped Cessna 172N, a Cessna 172S with the Garmin G1000, and a Piper PA-44 Seminole for the multi-engine rating.
The economical way to learn the basics and to build hours. Two seats, simple systems, and the cheapest airframe here to put an hour in — which is exactly what a student repeating circuits wants.
2 seats · Single piston · Primary training and time building
Four seats and an IFR panel. This is the aeroplane most private pilot students finish in and most instrument students train in, and it carries a family on a cross-country afterwards.
4 seats · Single piston · Private, instrument and cross-country
The same airframe with a glass cockpit. Advanced avionics, instrument and commercial training happen here, because the panel you learn on ought to be the panel the job uses.
4 seats · Single piston · Glass cockpit, instrument and commercial
Two engines, and the aeroplane the multi-engine rating and the MEI are flown in. Most schools this size send you elsewhere for it; this one does not have to.
4 seats · Twin piston · Multi-engine rating and MEICertified instructors who fly every day out of McClellan, and who will be the same face across your whole course.
Owner, lead pilot and senior flight instructor. Oversees Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Instrument, CFI, CFII and multi-engine training — between them every certificate and rating the school teaches.
The school's primary instructor for students starting out. Flies most private pilot training, along with discovery flights, FAA flight reviews and the recurrent training that brings rated pilots back to currency.
Lessons, photoshoots and celebrations on the ramp — the school’s Instagram, as it happens.
From a first flight to a professional instructor certificate, taught one-on-one. Two prices are fixed and published; the certificate courses are quoted for you.
Your first flight over Sacramento — take the controls with an instructor beside you. Up to three passengers, and available as a gift certificate.
Buy training by the hour and fly as often as your schedule allows — sessions run from one to six hours.
The certificate every aviation journey begins with — trained from zero, at whatever pace fits your week.
The certificate that lets you be paid to fly, and the step that turns a licence into a career.
Fly in cloud and in the weather that grounds a VFR pilot — approaches, holds and the airspace the airlines use, flown in the aircraft rather than a simulator.
Learn to teach flying — the fastest route to building hours while being paid for them.
Add the instrument instructor rating and teach approaches, holds and everything that happens in cloud.
The twin rating and the instructor certificate that goes with it, flown in the school's Piper PA-44 Seminole rather than at somebody else's field.
A discovery flight as a present — a named PDF by email within one business day, and the recipient picks the date that suits them.
An aviation-themed shoot beside or inside the aircraft on the ramp — for portraits, milestones and anything you want photographed against an aeroplane.
The two prices we publish: one flight to try it, and training by the hour once you are hooked.
The easiest way to find out if flying is for you.
$200 · 1 passenger
Book A Discovery FlightTraining by the hour, on your own schedule.
$110 / hour
Start TrainingBuy hours one at a time, or block-book:
Every Lesson Is A Real Flight
McClellan sits under the Sacramento approach corridor, in the airspace the airlines are using. You will be flying in it from your very first lesson.
McClellan sits just north of the city, a short run off Interstate 80. Students drive in from across the Sacramento Valley — from Roseville and Folsom, from Elk Grove, and from as far out as Davis and Woodland.
“Denis talked through every single thing before we moved, which is exactly what I needed — I’d been nervous about small planes for years. No sales pitch afterwards either, which I noticed.”
K. Alvarez · Google review
I booked a discovery flight for my husband’s fiftieth and ended up signing up myself. Denis talked through every single thing before we moved, which is exactly what I needed — I’d been nervous about small planes for years. No sales pitch afterwards either, which I noticed.
Passed my private checkride last month. Sergio is patient in a way that does not slow you down, and told me straight when I was not ready for the ride rather than letting me book it and fail. Scheduling around a full-time job took some doing but they never bumped me for someone else.
Good instruction and an honest rate card — what you see is what you pay, and the aircraft are clean and well kept. Four stars only because the aeroplane you want is not always the one that is free, so if yours is in maintenance your lesson moves to another. They tell you upfront, but it is worth knowing before you start.
English is my second language and I was worried about the radio. Being able to do the ground work in Russian and then switch to English in the cockpit made the difference. I fly solo now.
Yes. On a discovery flight you take the controls with a certified instructor beside you from the very first minute.
None at all. Most of our students arrive having never touched an aircraft, and we start from the beginning.
No. U.S. citizenship is not required to begin training with us, and international students are welcome.
Flight education starts at $110 an hour, and training sessions run from one to six hours. A discovery flight is $200 for one passenger, or $300 for up to three. Certificate courses such as the Private or Commercial are quoted individually — call us and we will price yours.
Private Pilot (PPL), the Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot (CPL), Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) and Instrument Instructor (CFII) — from a first flight through to teaching professionally, all single-engine in our Cessna 172S.
Sacramento McClellan Airport (KMCC) in Sacramento, California. We fly every day from 7 AM to 7 PM; the office answers Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM. Call us and we will tell you exactly where to find your instructor on the field.
We answer contact-form messages within one business day, and you can reach us for a consultation at any time.
Every lesson starts and ends at McClellan. The other fields below are inside the county line and are where your training actually goes — pick one to see the airspace and how to get there.
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KMCCHome FieldSacramento McClellan Airport
Our home field, and the address every lesson starts from. It sits under the Sacramento approach corridor with a 10,600-foot runway and a full maintenance community on site, so instrument students fly practice approaches in the same airspace the airlines are using.
3028 Peacekeeper Way, McClellan Park, CA 95652
Ready When You Are
Book a discovery flight over Sacramento, or get in touch — we fly every day from 7 AM to 7 PM, and the office answers Monday to Friday.
