Flight schools and flying clubs

2,410 training organisations: flight schools and academies (1,272), universities and colleges with a flight programme (131) and flying clubs (1,007), each with the aircraft it registers, its town and the main public airport there. Read this as a start, not an official list: the FAA publishes no downloadable list of flight schools (its online finder covers only certificated Part 141 schools), so this one is drawn from the FAA aircraft register: companies whose names say "flight school", "academy", "training" or "flying club", and companies whose names don't but which own fleets of training aircraft and say on their own websites that they give flying lessons. A school that rents all its aircraft from someone else is not here yet.

New to this? Two guides: choosing a flight school and how to become a pilot, and what it costs.