Learn a lifetime skill.
A pilot's license does not expire. All you have to do is meet simple currency requirements and remain medically qualified to use your license for the rest of your life.
For the Challenge and the Adventure!
Meet new people, go new places. Achieve a worthwile and fullfilling goal and add new excitement to your life!
Be a "do-er" and not a "dreamer"
Don't just wish you were a pilot and play video games living in fantasy land, be one of those that actually can fly - go out and do it in a real plane!
An exciting and efficient way to travel.
Save lots of time, avoid poor road conditions and traffic, access 10 times as many places as the airlines do. There are 93 public use airports alone in ND. Arrive at your destination in style! Some places offer fly in camping to remote or off the beaten path areas.
Go Sightseeing
See your everyday world from a new perspective. View your fields from above, find a new good hunting or fishing spot, and see where you grew up from the air.
Share your hobby, carry passengers
Take your family and friends for rides, share experiences with them that will leave a lasting impression.
Attend Fly-In events
No fewer than 25 Fly-In Breakfasts and events are held in ND each year; gather with other pilots who share your hobby as a participant and an insider!
To be different
Less than 1% of all North Dakotans are pilots, have interesting stories to tell and stand out in the crowd.
It's the gateway to additional licenses and privledges
Want to fly commercially? Want to fly tailwheel, complex and high performance airplanes, a seaplane, perform aerobatics in airshows, or fly a jet someday? They all started the same place - by getting a Private Pilot License!
Flight Instruction and Airplane Rental
Mandan Municipal Airport