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Flight schools by state

Flight schools in New York

59 schools across 29 cities, with ratings and reviews from Google.

59 schools

Leaf Air, LLC

Warren County, NY · KGFL

Leaf Air, LLC

5.0 · 31 Google reviews

Nassau Flyers

Farmingdale, NY · KFRG

Nassau Flyers

4.6 · 48 Google reviews

Where training happens in New York

59 flight schools are listed across 29 cities in New York, flying from 25 different airports. Between them they carry 2,046 reviews from students on Google, averaging 4.60 out of five. 14 schools hold a rating of 4.8 or better across at least ten reviews, which is the bar worth using when a five-star average rests on two people.

Busiest training airports

Fields with more than one school on them are worth knowing about: you can visit two or three in an afternoon and compare them properly instead of driving across the state twice.

  • Republic Airport (KFRG) East Farmingdale 15 schools
  • Long Island MacArthur Airport (KISP) Islip 9 schools
  • Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport (KROC) Rochester 3 schools
  • Griffiss International Airport (KRME) Rome 2 schools
  • Kingston-Ulster Airport (K20N) Kingston 2 schools
  • LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) New York 2 schools

Cities with the most choice

Farmingdale 15 Ronkonkoma 9 New York 4 Rochester 3 Kingston 2

Beyond the private certificate

Not every school teaches everything. These are the New York schools that list training past the basic airplane certificate, which is where the state's geography tends to show: seaplane work follows the water, and mountain and tailwheel training follow the terrain.

Instrument Rating (IFR) 13 Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) 2 Helicopter 2

Rated highest by their own students

Ranked on Google rating, counting only schools with fifteen reviews or more. We take no payment for position; this is arithmetic on public review data, not an endorsement.