What is the daily or weekly rate to rent a cessna or piper warrior?
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 under weekly rentals | 5 Comments
My brother just got his pilots license, and lives across the country. As a graduation gift, I would like to pay for him to fly from Missouri to California to visit me. I can’t seem to find information online anywhere regarding a daily or weekly rental rate. I am hoping there is such a thing. . .
Different Fixed Based Operators (FBO’s) will have different rates for long term rentals. Most though will have at least some sort of minimum hour requirement per day. The previous answer that said 3 hours a day is probably pretty close. Also if your brother has never rented from them in the past he will have to have a check out from one of the FBO’s instructor which will add on to the price.
Try to find out some airports near by your brother and then do a search of those online. You should get some hits for FBO’s or flight schools at the airport by doing this. Then call them and ask for their rental rates as well as whether or not they do long term rentals. This is the only way you will find out whether or not what you want is possible.
While the other answers are correct that you will spend much more money this way than buying a commercial plane ticket, a long trip would be a good experience for your brother if he’s up to it. If he’s working on his next ratings, he may need to build time anyway. Good luck with everything.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
You better be rich. Avgas is now around $4 per gallon, figure 5 gallons / hour, 20 hours comes to about $400 just for fuel, one way, plus exhorbitant rental rates, maybe around $65 / hour. That rate is a guess, based on dual time instruction rates of $100 / hour or more. You might hire a taxi for less than that.
He would have to make the arrangements from where he is, even if you reimburse him.
Our local FBO quit the rental and instruction business altogether because he could not get insurance.
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March 12th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Most schools will require a 3 hr min per day guantree on the aircraft, but chances are they will not allow you to take the aircraft for this long as they will lose out on about a weeks worth of reveunue. MO to CA in a C172 or equal. will be about a 12hr or so flight not including time for fuel stops.
Better of just jumping on a commerical jet. This trip alone round trip would be upwards of over 3 grand, (100.00 an hr wet for a a c172 is about the going price for a late model, to 150.00 for a glass cockpit, and 12hrs of flight each way.).
**Edit** However as one later person pointed out, if working towards a higher rating, this would be a very good time builder towards the 250hrs requirement for a Commerical Cert. (I would highly reccommend getting his instrument rating before attempting this long x-country) Weather on that far of a route can change and become lower than VFR will allow, or beyond his comfort level espeically flying over the Rockies..
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March 12th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Different Fixed Based Operators (FBO’s) will have different rates for long term rentals. Most though will have at least some sort of minimum hour requirement per day. The previous answer that said 3 hours a day is probably pretty close. Also if your brother has never rented from them in the past he will have to have a check out from one of the FBO’s instructor which will add on to the price.
Try to find out some airports near by your brother and then do a search of those online. You should get some hits for FBO’s or flight schools at the airport by doing this. Then call them and ask for their rental rates as well as whether or not they do long term rentals. This is the only way you will find out whether or not what you want is possible.
While the other answers are correct that you will spend much more money this way than buying a commercial plane ticket, a long trip would be a good experience for your brother if he’s up to it. If he’s working on his next ratings, he may need to build time anyway. Good luck with everything.
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March 12th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
All good answers so far.
Just to make it simple you’re looking at at least $2,500 in rental charges, probably more than $3,000, if you can find someone willing to rent to your brother. A light airplane is not a cheap way to travel for a single person.
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March 12th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Plan on $125 to $150 per hour, with a minimum 3 hour charge per day on an extended rental. Four hours per day on weekends.
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That’s what my school charges for rentals. The local FBOs are all similar.