Flight schools in Kentucky
24 flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes side by side: the 83 aircraft they register with the FAA, how old those aircraft are, and every accident or incident the NTSB recorded involving them in the last 10 years (2 accidents, 1 fatal). Each name opens the school's own page with the full record.
Towns with two or more: Louisville 5 · Bowling Green 2 · Lexington 2
Flight schools on the map of Kentucky, with the examiners nearby schools at their town's main public airport, examiners at the airport the FAA's listing places them
Click a dot for names, telephone numbers and the contact buttons. A dot with a number holds several people at one airport.
| Organisation | Kind | Town | Airport | Aircraft | Mostly | Typical aircraft built | Accidents, last 10 years | Of them fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Kentucky University website | University or college with a flight programme | Richmond | Central Kentucky Regional RGA | 24 | Cessna 172R | 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| Flight Club 502 INC website | Flying club | Louisville | Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF | 12 | Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 | 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| Don Davis Aviation INC website | Flight school | Henderson | Henderson City-County EHR | 7 | Textron Aviation Inc 172S | 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| Lexington Flying Club INC website | Flying club | Lexington | Blue Grass Airport LEX | 6 | Cessna 172M | 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| Cardinal Wings Aviation LLC website | Flight school | Buckner | 4 | Cessna 172M | 1973 | 1 | 0 | |
| Flywell Aviation LLC website | Flight school | Bowling Green | Bowling Green-Warren County Regional BWG | 4 | American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB | 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| Double Eagle Flyers LLC website | Flight school | Louisville | Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF | 3 | Double Eagle Flyers Llc DOUBLE EAGLE | 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| Eagle Flight Academy LLC website | Flight school | Owensboro | Owensboro/Daviess County Regional OWB | 3 | Cessna R172K | 1977 | 1 | 1 |
| Louisville Soaring Club INC | Flying club | Lexington | Blue Grass Airport LEX | 3 | Bellanca 8GCBC | 1976 | 0 | 0 |
| Career Flyers LLC website | Flight school | Crittenden | 2 | Piper PA-28-140 | 1975 | 0 | 0 | |
| West Kentucky Flyers CORP website | Flight school | Murray | Kyle-Oakley Field CEY | 2 | Cessna 172I | 1972 | 0 | 0 |
| Blue Barren Flight Club LLC | Flying club | Glasgow | Glasgow Municipal GLW | 1 | Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A | 0 | 0 | |
| Bowman Field Flying Club INC website | Flying club | Louisville | Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF | 1 | Piper PA-28-161 | 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| Cantrall Aviation Flying Club LLC | Flying club | Elizabethtown | Addington Field EKX | 1 | Piper PA-28-235 | 1968 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke Flight Training LLC | Flight school | Bonnyman | 1 | Cessna 172M | 1975 | 0 | 0 | |
| Feathered Flyers LLC | Flight school | Louisville | Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF | 1 | Cessna 172C | 0 | 0 | |
| Greater Cincinnati Aero Club LLC | Flying club | Alexandria | 1 | Mooney M20C | 1965 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kentucky Flight Training Center LLC website | Flight school | Mount Washington | 1 | Brm Aero S R O BRISTELL LSA | 2024 | 0 | 0 | |
| Powell County Flying Club INC website | Flying club | Owingsville | 1 | Cessna 172G | 1965 | 0 | 0 | |
| Schulte Flyers LLC | Flight school | Union | 1 | Cirrus SR22 | 2004 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socks Flyers LLC | Flight school | Southgate | 1 | Cessna 172F | 0 | 0 | ||
| Southern Kentucky Flying Club LLC | Flying club | Bowling Green | Bowling Green-Warren County Regional BWG | 1 | Cessna 172F | 1964 | 0 | 0 |
| Stratospheric Flyers Group INC | Flight school | Louisville | Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF | 1 | Beechcraft S35 | 1964 | 0 | 0 |
| Twin Eagle Flying Club INC website | Flying club | Pikeville | Pike County/Hatcher Field PBX | 1 | Piper PA-28-181 | 1977 | 0 | 0 |
How to read this. Only the aircraft registered to each organisation today are counted, wherever they were flying and whoever was flying them, including any accident before the organisation owned them; aircraft a school leases from their owners are registered to those owners and are not counted. "Typical aircraft built" is the year by which half of an organisation's aircraft had been built. A school that flies more hours will show more accidents; nobody publishes those hours, so these are records, not scores, and the list is in order of fleet size, not of safety.
Sources: the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, October 23, 2026, for the organisations (company owners whose names say flight school, academy, flight training, flying club, or a university or college with three or more aircraft, and schools whose names don't say so, checked by hand or confirmed by their own websites) and their aircraft; the NTSB's aviation accident database, cases to September 30, 2026, for the accidents and incidents. A school that leases all its aircraft from their owners is not here yet. Is your school here, or missing? Claim, correct or add a listing.
