152 Rental Rate

[hoover]

Back in '87 I was able to get one for $36 an hour, wet. What is it these days?

 

[A-Track]

Last fall I saw one for around $80 - $90 don't remember exactly. I rented the same plane back in '98 - '99 for $50 and hour wet.

 

[airchief]

$68 an hour wet at PCM (plant city, just east of Tampa)

Last time I looked anyway.

 

[v1valarob]

$76 wet/hr in Manassas, VA.

-rob

 

[crash-proof]

$80 HWO, Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale

 

[pgcfii2002]

$60-$75 Nocal

 

[LearLove]

$70/hr outside philly area for a 152. In 90-93 time frame when I learned in the same 152 it was 40 to 42 an hour.

today it's 70/hr plus 4.5/hr for insurance surcharge (non-taxed) an hour rental works out to:

152 rental - 70
tax - 4.20 (6% PA sales)
insurance - 4.50 (not taxed)
total = $78.70 for one hour of c-152 fun

 

[hiflyer731]

You'll love this. In 99-00 i had access to a 180hp conversion 172 for $45 an hour wet and a 152 for $32 an hour wet. It was a college flight club but there were no dues or fees and the aircraft were nice!

 

[Lead Sled]

Back in '87 I was able to get one for $36 an hour, wet. What is it these days?

I'm going to show my age here, I learned to fly back in 1966 - primarily in an Aeronca 7AC Champ. I joined a flying club which had a couple of Champs and a Cessna 170. As I remember, it cost me $75 to join and $4.50 a month for dues. The Champ cost $4.00 an hour wet, the Cessna 170 was $7.00 an hour wet.

Neither airplane had a full panel which, like today, was needed to take the checkride back then so I had to go to a local FBO and get checked out in a brand spanking new Cessna 150. I bought a 10-hour block of time, wet, for a total of $60.00. A few weeks after passing my checkride I took a lesson in a brand new Mooney M20C Ranger. It rented for the grand sum of $16.00 an hour.

Everything is realitive though - my private cost me a grand total of right around $600, but at the time I was making $1.25 an hour bagging groceries so nothing has really changed.

LS

 

[LearLove]

I did my comm and cfi then instructed in a navy club:

25/hr engine tach, wet c-150 and 47/hr wet T-34B.

wish I never left the club - miss that T-34, nice flying plane.

 

[A-Track]

The way the prices are sky rocketing now it makes a guy wish that I would have taken advantage of those prices a few years ago. Funny how it seemed really expensive at 50 bucks but I would kill for those prices now. 172's used to go for 70-80 and now the going rate seems to average $135 an hour wet in my area.

 

[siegelaviation]

Back in '87 I was able to get one for $36 an hour, wet. What is it these days?

Our 152 goes for $65 an hour, or $55 an hour for a 50 hour or more block.

Michael

 

[EMBATP]

buy?

so what do you guys think? if a guy was going to learn to fly, would it be cheaper to buy a decent 152 and rent for his complex/multi ans some ifr stuff, or rent 120 an hour 172s?

 

[Rally]

Yes and fly the crap out of it before it breaks. If your a PP and looking to become a instructor get your comm etc. Buy a 150 fly the heck out of it I'm talking 7-10 hours at least a week. Sell it before you get to your commerical the get that and do your CFI.

I had the sweetest 150 you could ever find. What a beauty, never was in a flight school, flew straight as can be, put a new engine on it and flew it for 450 hours. Sold it for 2000 or so grand less then I had it it, so I basically flew for free minus the gas.

 

[PositionandHold]

I know a place that charges 90 for the 152. I also know a place that charges 75 for a 172...wet.

 

[westwind]

$52 an hour, wet, for a 125 hp Sparrowhawk. Fun little plane, but at that rate, availability is sometimes tough.

 

[CrewDawg]

Here is a nice cheap place from back around where I went to school.

www.flyskypark.com

 

[5niner0]

~$60 for a 152 in SC

 

[skid]

In IL I used (1995 - 2001) to belong to a club that had a nice 152 for $25 wet. Real nice airplane. But some one broke it and the replacement bird sucked. I think they are currently selling it, but just recently it was running I think in the $40-$45 range.

 

[CorpLearDriver]

Back in '87 I was able to get one for $36 an hour, wet. What is it these days?

Back in 1975 and 76, the 152 didn't exist. But I could get a C-150 for $13.50 per hour and an instructor for $6.50 per hour for basic and $7.50 for advance instruction.