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The fleet

The airplanes you'll train in

Four airplanes fly out of Pearland Regional: a pair of Cessna 150L Commuters that carry most primary training, an IFR-certified Cessna 172P Skyhawk II for instrument students, and a 230 HP Cessna 182P Skylane for the high-performance endorsement.

The flight line

Every airplane in the fleet.

Cessna 150L N10955 in green and white, three-quarter view from the nose on a concrete pad beside grass.
N10955

Primary trainer

Cessna 150L Commuter

A 100 HP Continental-powered two-seat trainer with a standard six-pack panel and a Garmin touchscreen GPS. VFR only today, with an IFR upgrade planned. Suitable for the Sport, Private and Commercial Pilot courses, and soon to be added to the Instrument roster. $135/hr including fuel.

Registration
N10955
Year
1973
Seats
2
Cessna 150L N18558 photographed low from the grass beside a white hangar, stars painted on the fin.
N18558

Primary trainer

Cessna 150L Commuter

The other half of the primary training pair — 100 HP Continental, standard six-pack gauges, VFR only and no GPS, which is exactly the airplane you want when you are learning to look outside and navigate for yourself. Suitable for the Sport, Private and Commercial Pilot courses. $135/hr including fuel.

Registration
N18558
Year
1972
Seats
2
Cessna 172P Skyhawk II N98492 tied down on the ramp under towering cumulus.
N98492

Instrument trainer

Cessna 172P Skyhawk II

A 160 HP Lycoming-powered Skyhawk with standard six-pack gauges and a Garmin 530W, IFR certified and the airplane instrument students fly. Suitable for the Sport, Private, Instrument and Commercial Pilot courses. $174/hr including fuel.

Registration
N98492
Year
1985
Seats
4
A four-seat high-wing Cessna facing the camera on a taxiway, propeller turning.
N85936

High-performance trainer

Cessna 182P Skylane

A 230 HP high-performance Skylane with six-pack gauges plus a digital attitude indicator and HSI, IFR certified, and a Garmin 750 touchscreen GPS. The airplane used for the high-performance endorsement. $140/hr dry rate — fuel is not included.

Registration
N85936
Year
1973
Seats
4
The standard

Older airframes, well maintained — and very rarely down

The school is straight about the fleet: these are aged airframes. They are also well maintained, and that maintenance has meant little downtime — which is the number that actually affects a student, because a grounded airplane is a cancelled lesson and a lost week.

Training across a fleet like this builds a more capable pilot. You learn to navigate with nothing but a chart and a heading in a no-GPS 150, then step into a 530W-equipped Skyhawk for the instrument rating and a 750-equipped Skylane for high-performance work — the same skills, progressively more airplane.

  1. Standard six-pack instrumentation across the fleet
  2. Two IFR-certified aircraft — Garmin 530W and Garmin 750
  3. Rates include fuel except on the 182P, which is a dry rate
  4. Additional aircraft available at KLVJ through the Bay Area Aero Club

See the training programs these aircraft fly

Questions about the fleet

What aircraft will I train in?
Most primary students fly one of the two Cessna 150L Commuters, N10955 and N18558. Instrument students move to N98492, the IFR-certified Cessna 172P Skyhawk II with a Garmin 530W, and high-performance endorsement work is done in N85936, the 230 HP Cessna 182P Skylane.
How old are the airplanes, and how are they maintained?
They are aged airframes and the school says so plainly — the trainers date from 1972 and 1973, the Skyhawk from 1985. They are also well maintained, and the practical result the school points to is very little downtime, which is the part that actually affects a student: a grounded airplane is a cancelled lesson.
How many aircraft do you have, and will I always get one?
Four: two Cessna 150L trainers, a Cessna 172P Skyhawk II and a Cessna 182P Skylane. Instructors here are also cleared to instruct in aircraft leased by the Bay Area Aero Club at the same field, which adds a Cessna 182L, a Cessna 172L and two Piper Archers to what you can train in — a club membership is required for those.
Will I train in the same airplane every lesson?
Usually, for primary training — most students settle into one of the two Cessna 150Ls. You will change airplanes when the training changes: instrument work moves to the IFR-certified Cessna 172P, and the high-performance endorsement is done in the Cessna 182P.
Do the aircraft have glass cockpits or steam gauges?
Steam gauges — the standard six-pack across the whole fleet, with a digital attitude indicator and HSI added in the Cessna 182P. GPS varies deliberately: N18558 has none, N10955 has a Garmin touchscreen for VFR use, N98492 carries a Garmin 530W and N85936 a Garmin 750. Learning to navigate without the magenta line first makes you a better pilot with it.

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