Flight school directory · as of Oct 1, 2026
Flight schools by state
903 Part 61 and Part 141 flight schools in 437 cities across 11 states, each with its airport and website. A school is listed when it holds an FAA Part 141 certificate or we found dated evidence that it operates; locations still awaiting verification are counted, not named. See them on the map.
States
- Alabama47 schools in 34 cities+19 locations awaiting verification
- Arkansas26 schools in 19 cities+8 locations awaiting verification
- Florida199 schools in 76 cities+31 locations awaiting verification
- Georgia73 schools in 40 cities+29 locations awaiting verification
- Louisiana25 schools in 17 cities+13 locations awaiting verification
- Mississippi24 schools in 16 cities+12 locations awaiting verification
- North Carolina72 schools in 43 cities+24 locations awaiting verification
- Oklahoma43 schools in 21 cities+11 locations awaiting verification
- South Carolina40 schools in 25 cities+25 locations awaiting verification
- Tennessee57 schools in 31 cities+11 locations awaiting verification
- Texas297 schools in 115 cities+101 locations awaiting verification
AI search
Preliminary · Southeast study, 2 of 3 rounds · Oct 2026 · Claude Opus 5.5 with live web search
How AI finds flight schools: answering from memory (Texas–Florida study, Sept 2026), the AI never named 71% of FAA-certificated Texas flight schools. With live web search (Southeast study, preliminary), it never named 12%. But across all 11 states, 28% of verified flight schools weren't named once in 20 answers about their own market. What the AI finds on the web shapes who gets recommended.