Flight training at KSFO
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA. Instructors, rental aircraft, and checkride examiners near this field, with lesson costs at the rates they list.
Flight instructors at KSFO
No instructor lists KSFO as a home field yet. Ground instruction and checkride prep are available online from instructors anywhere, and in-person instructors at nearby fields are listed below.
Aircraft based at KSFO
No aircraft is listed at KSFO yet. Owners who base an airplane here can list it for instruction, approve the instructors who fly it, and get paid per hour flown.
What a lesson costs at KSFO
Medians across aircraft and instructors listed on AviPrep as of September 2026. Local listings replace these as they appear.
1.25 hours on the aircraft plus briefing and debrief time with the instructor. The instructor keeps their full rate, and the aircraft is billed at the owner's published rate.
Checkride examiners near KSFO
FAA-listed Designated Pilot Examiners based within 100 miles of KSFO, from the FAA Designee Management System. Distances are to the examiner's listed city.
- Geary Lee PaddenBelmont, CA · 8 miPPLCPLIR
- R ROHLFINGSan Carlos, CA · 10 miCFISPORTPPLCPLIR
- Terence WilsonAlameda, CA · 12 miPPLCPLIR
- James Courtney HigginsPalo Alto, CA · 18 miPPLCPLIR
- Mark PollardWalnut Creek, CA · 27 miPPL
- Clayton Miles ConradSan Jose, CA · 36 miCPLIRPPL
- Jennifer Rayne WatsonSan Jose, CA · 36 miCPLIRSPORTPPL
- Margaret WattHollister, CA · 73 miCPLIRPPL
- Eric Alan CookSalinas, CA · 79 miCFIPPLCPLIR
- Ashley Noel SniderSacramento, CA · 90 miPPLCPLIRCFI
- Robert FrankovichSacramento, CA · 90 miPPLCPLIRCFI
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