places to rent in North Carolina

[cforst513]

i searched on AOPA's website and got 450,000 hits when i tried finding a listing of places that rent aircraft. anyone have a link that i can go to that lists places to rent aircraft? i'm new at this game...

 

[Flywrite]

What part of NC are you looking at?

 

[cforst513]

the Mooresville/Lake Norman area. i did a search on airnav of the airports in the area (of which there are few) and i found nothing mentioning places to rent. any ideas?

 

[1973Arrow]

Concord, NC is probably going to be the closest place (20min or so away)...704-784-1295 for ISO Aero
...I think Linconton's airport may do some rentals as well. 704-735-0602
Either way you're going to be driving 15+ miles.

 

[cforst513]

i looked up both airports on airnav.com. where would it tell about renting? in the FBO section? i looked up concord's FBO's website, but all i found was charter stuff. hmm, this is proving to be difficult.

 

[1973Arrow]

not everyone that rents arround there has great websites, you're going to have to pick up the phone...

 

[CFIse]

Or visit the airport. We had an airport around here that had a training school, then it didn't, then it did, then it didn't, now it does. But without actually visiting you'd have never figured out that for most of the period you could have rented planes and flown with pretty much the same instructors.

Now I'm not saying that's ideal, or even very good, but there you go.

ISO Aero at Concord for example - very hard to find anything about them in the Internet, and their Web site has been down the tubes for years, and they have training ops at 2 airports for heavens sake - they're not the smallest provider.

So take the advice - visit airports, call them, search them out. It turns out not everything is on the Internet (although sometimes it feels like it).

 

[kingaira90]

Wilgrove

Also try wilgrove at
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There is a flying club there, they have older aircraft (cherokee 140 and 180) but they are the cheapest in the area. You will get good at short field stuff too! Good instructors and more of a cozy feel. they are at 485 and Albemarle. A little more drive, but with the savings on aircraft it will more than make up. -kingaira90

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[cforst513]

i realize that i'd have to call people, but it's just finding the numbers and stuff on the internet that i'm concerned about. i guess that i can look "airports" up in the phone book when i am there to get numbers/addresses and just call or visit them. thanks for your help, though. i am just looking to be able to rent something to go up and fly in the lake norman area. by then i'll have my private certificate.

 

[OleGuy]

Try this seb site for just about anything you want to know about an airport. http://www.airnav.com/airports/

I agree with KA90 that a flying club is the way to go.

 

[1973Arrow]

Try this seb site for just about anything you want to know about an airport. http://www.airnav.com/airports/
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...it was great untill they started charging the FBOs to post their link/logo. Not nearly as many people have links up like they used to

 

[typhoonpilot]

A few years ago, right after 9-11 I went out to Lincolnton ( IPJ ) to get checked out in a C-172 and C-152. I think that is all they had at the time. It would be a little farther from Moorsesville than the Concord airport, but it isn't near as busy so you would probably save some $$$ on taxi times, etc. Try looking up Lincolnton ( with the L ).

Hickory would be another option http://www.ci.hickory.nc.us/airport/

TP

 

[dav8or]

Try RUQ Salisbury. I can get you a # if you can't find it.

 

[BrianNC]

Concord, NC is probably going to be the closest place (20min or so away)...704-784-1295 for ISO Aero
...I think Linconton's airport may do some rentals as well. 704-735-0602
Either way you're going to be driving 15+ miles.

I fly with ISO at Concord. But they are hard to reach by phone sometimes. They don't have an office person except normally on weekends. So you just have to catch someone there. It can be frustrating at times. They have about 4 172's, a Piper Archer, Piper Lance, Seminole, and maybe a 152.

There is a flying club with bases at Concord, Charlotte and Monroe but it is rather expensive. $300 to join plus $200 a month for the lowest level, but half of the monthly fee can go towards flight time. But they have great airplanes. All the cockpits are standardized with a Garmin 430, stormscope, autopilot, HSI, etc. once you get above the 172 and 140 (2 172RG's, 182RG, Symphony, Mooney205, Cirrus 22. Bonanza A36, a couple of twins and several others. They are all listed at the site.

http://www.flycarolina.com

 

[cforst513]

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