Flight school at KDWH · Houston

Learn to fly out of Hooks Airport.

Houston Flight School offers flight instruction, ground school and checkride prep at David Wayne Hooks Memorial in northwest Houston. You train in N92CZ, a Piper Cherokee with a Garmin glass panel.

N92CZ, a teal and white Piper Cherokee, parked on the ramp
N92CZ Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee
G3X Garmin glass flight display
GPS 175 IFR-approved GPS navigator
Online Ground school anywhere in the US
Pilot training

Everything you need to earn your certificate.

At KDWH

Discovery flight

Fly the airplane with an instructor next to you. It's the easiest way to find out if flying is for you, and it counts as your first logged lesson.

Discovery flights →
At KDWH

Flight instruction

Private pilot, instrument and commercial training in N92CZ. The airplane is $180 an hour wet and instruction is $50 an hour.

Flight instruction →
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Ground instruction

One-on-one ground school for the knowledge test and for real flying. Meet at the airport or join online from anywhere in the US.

Ground instruction →
At KDWH Online

Checkride prep

Mock orals and practice checkrides against the ACS. Open to our students and to pilots training somewhere else.

Checkride prep →
N92CZ parked on the ramp at dusk, seen from the front
The airplane

A Cherokee with a modern panel.

N92CZ is a Piper PA-28-140. Stick-and-rudder skills come first. The G3X shows attitude, engine data and a moving map on one screen, and the GPS 175 handles navigation and approaches.


Garmin G3X for flight and engine data

Garmin GPS 175 for IFR GPS navigation

Available to rent once you're checked out
Online training

Not near Houston? Ground school and checkride prep work online.

Sessions run over video. We cover the same material we teach at the airport: airspace, weather, regulations, flight planning and the oral exam.

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Green hills and mountains seen from the wing of N92CZ in flight
First lesson

You'll be at the controls on your first day.

Send a few dates that work for you and we'll set up a discovery flight at KDWH.