Flight schools in New York
Every flight school the AOPA directory currently lists in New York — 63 of them, in 37 towns and cities — is on this page, with Farmingdale (12), Ronkonkoma (6) and Jamestown (4) at the top by count.
We built this so you can see the whole field at once rather than whichever three schools bought the best ads. The trade-off is that a raw directory ages: some of these will have moved or closed. Tell us which ones you are considering and we will confirm they are still flying.
Listings are sourced from the AOPA Flight School Finder and have not been individually verified by us. Some may have moved, changed hands or closed. Schools marked “Verified” are the ones we checked by hand in July 2026.
Where they are
- Baldwin 1
- Ballston Spa 1
- Canandaigua 1
- Cheektowaga 1
- Cortland 1
- Dexter 2
- Dunkirk 1
- Farmingdale 12
- Hudson 1
- Ithaca 1
- Jamestown 4
- Johnson City 3
- Kingston 2
- Lake Placid 1
- Lake View 1
- Leroy 1
- Mattydale / Syracuse 1
- Montgomery 1
- New Windsor 2
- New York 1
- Niagara Falls 1
- Potsdam 1
- Queensbury 1
- Rochester 2
- Rome 1
- Ronkonkoma 6
- Scotia 2
- Selkirk 1
- Seneca Falls 1
- Shirley 1
- Sidney 1
- Syracuse 1
- Wappingers Falls 1
- Weedsport 1
- West Harrison 1
- White Plains 1
- Wurtsboro 1
Farmingdale 12 schools
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Academy of Aviation
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Airborne Elite, LLC
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ATP Flight School
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Aviation Flight Center
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Farmingdale Aviation
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Global Aviation Center
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Icarus Flying Academy
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Long Island Aviators
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Nassau Flyers
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O'Toole Airways, LLC
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Tasco Aviation
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Vxperts Aviation
Ronkonkoma 6 schools
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ATP Flight School
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Flying Helicopters Made Easy
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Helicopter Flight Training, Inc.
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Heritage Flight Academy, LLC
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Long Island Flying
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Mid Island Air Service
Jamestown 4 schools
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Bird's Eye View Aviation Services
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Centric Aviation
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Great Lakes Flight Center
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Majestic Aviation
Johnson City 3 schools
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Aero Techniques
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Goodrich Aviation
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Goodrich Aviation Maintenance Center
Dexter 2 schools
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Conley's Flight School
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Mike Williams Flight School
Kingston 2 schools
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Richmor Aviation, Inc.
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Summit Aviation
New Windsor 2 schools
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Independent Helicopters, LLC
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RedTail Flight Academy
Rochester 2 schools
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OnCore Aviation, LLC
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Rochester Air Center, LLC
Scotia 2 schools
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Professional Flight Training, Inc.
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Richmor Aviation, Inc.
Baldwin 1 school
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Michael A.N. Winkler, CFI-AIME
Ballston Spa 1 school
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Hewison Aviation
Canandaigua 1 school
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M & S Air Service, Inc.
Cheektowaga 1 school
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OnCore Aviation, LLC
Cortland 1 school
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7:47 Aviation, Inc.
Dunkirk 1 school
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Great Lakes Flight Center
Hudson 1 school
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Richmor Aviation, Inc.
Ithaca 1 school
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East Hill Flying Club
Lake Placid 1 school
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Adirondack Flying Service
Lake View 1 school
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Bauer Flight Instruction, Inc.
Leroy 1 school
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Le Roy Aviation Services, Inc. (5G0)
Mattydale / Syracuse 1 school
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True Course Flight School
Montgomery 1 school
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Take Flight Aviation, LLC
New York 1 school
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Aviator.NYC
Niagara Falls 1 school
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Falcon Aviation
Potsdam 1 school
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Potsdam Aero, Inc.
Queensbury 1 school
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Leaf Air, LLC
Rome 1 school
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Galaxy Aviation
Selkirk 1 school
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Hewison Aviation
Seneca Falls 1 school
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Finger Lakes Regional Airport
Shirley 1 school
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Mid Island Air Service
Sidney 1 school
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Delaware Aviation, LLC
Syracuse 1 school
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Syracuse Flight School
Wappingers Falls 1 school
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US Aviation Academy
Weedsport 1 school
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Whitfords Airport, LLC
West Harrison 1 school
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Performance Flight
White Plains 1 school
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Academy of Aviation
Wurtsboro 1 school
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Wurtsboro Airpark LLC
How this compares to Arizona
Arizona is the state we have actually worked: 25 schools called, checked and written up, with the mistakes in the public directories corrected. New York is not there yet. If you want to see what a finished state looks like, the Arizona hub is it — and if you want New York to look like that, calling us is what makes it happen.
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