Clearwater Aviation is a Part 61/Part 141 flight school in Clearwater, FL, flying Cessna 172, Piper Seneca. They offer a discovery flight for first-time students.
Certificates and ratings named on their site: private pilot, instrument rating, commercial pilot and multi-engine.
Aircraft named on their site: Cessna 172 and Piper Seneca.
Their site describes both Part 61 and Part 141 training.
They advertise a discovery flight for first-time students.
Their site mentions GI Bill or VA-funded training.
Their site describes career-track, professional-pilot training.
Read off their own website in July 2026. We have not called them to confirm any of it — that is what the phone number at the top is for, and we will do it for you free.
What you can train for at Clearwater Aviation
Discovery flight
20–30 minutes · you fly
$99–250typical US price
The trial lesson. You sit in the left seat and actually fly, with an instructor beside you. Most schools credit it toward training if you carry on.
Private pilot certificate
60–75 hours in practice
$13,000–20,000industry range, all in
The licence that lets you carry passengers. The FAA minimum is 40 hours; almost nobody finishes in 40, which is why quotes built on it come in low.
Instrument rating
added after the private
$10,000–15,000on top of the private
Flying by reference to instruments, in cloud and at night with real dispatch reliability. The rating that turns a licence into transport.
Commercial pilot certificate
250 hours Part 61 · 190 Part 141
$10,000–20,000+advanced training only
The certificate you need to be paid to fly. Counted from zero, the full career track runs $80,000–120,000 and is normally financed.
Those are the honest industry ranges, not this school’s rate card — this school does not publish one, and almost none do. Ring us and we will get you their actual number, at their price, with nothing added for coming through us.
Everything above is assembled from 4 pages of their own website, read in July 2026, and their public Google Maps listing. Nobody here has called Clearwater Aviation, visited them, or flown with them, so there is no opinion of ours on this page and no rating of ours anywhere on it. When we do call a school it gets a ✓ and a summary written by a person — you can see what that looks like on the Arizona pages.
Their prices. They do not publish a rate card, and almost no school does.
When their office is actually open.
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What do the public reviews say?
Google shows a 4.6 rating across 43 reviews (checked July 2026). We show that as plain text rather than dressing it up as our own rating, because we did not collect it and we are not going to pretend otherwise.