The regulator approves one training organisation in the city. Here is what it flies and what it publishes, and then every other approved base in Maharashtra.
Search for a flying school in Mumbai and you will be shown a dozen names, but the regulator's own approved list bases exactly one training organisation in the city, and it flies from Juhu.
Regulator's list as on 30 March 2026, fees last checked 8 September 2026. Each row below carries its own date as well, because the schools on this page were read across two research rounds. The approved list itself comes from the DGCA's published list of approved flying training organisations, and where it disagrees with anything here, the regulator wins.
This is the oldest institution in the whole directory by a wide margin, and the geography is the reason to weigh it seriously. Juhu is an airfield inside Mumbai rather than a campus on an airstrip somewhere quiet, so if you already live in the city you remove the accommodation problem entirely, and you fly in controlled airspace with real traffic from your first hours.
| Organisation, bases, fleet and approval | DGCA ranking | Headline fee |
|---|---|---|
| Bombay Flying Club. Juhu Airport, Mumbai, Maharashtra; Dhule Airstrip, Mumbai, Maharashtra. 8 single engine and 1 multi engine aircraft: Cessna 172, Cessna 152, Piper Seneca PA 18, Piper Seneca PA 34. Approval 03/2016, valid to 4 November 2027. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | about ₹34,56,000Reported |
The club's own page, and the listing sites the circulating figure comes from, are linked on its page in this directory.
The club's own pilot training page has the fee fields blank. That is not a page that never mentions money: it is a page built to hold a price with no price in it. What circulates instead comes from listing sites and it is the lowest private-school number anywhere in this directory. A low number with weak provenance is the combination that should slow you down, so it appears above with the reported label on it and the plain statement that it has never been seen on the club's own page.
There is also no published statement of how long the course takes at current aircraft availability, which at a busy urban airfield is the number that decides your real cost. Ask for it in writing, along with how many of the aircraft on the row above are serviceable this month, before you take the circulating figure as a price.
The list gives the club two bases and files both of them under the city Mumbai: Juhu Airport, Mumbai, Maharashtra; Dhule Airstrip, Mumbai, Maharashtra. The second is not in Mumbai. Dhule is its own district in the north of the state, and what the regulator has printed against it is almost certainly the club's registered city rather than the airstrip's own. It is reproduced here exactly as printed rather than tidied, which is the rule everywhere in this directory, and it matters practically: if your flying phase is moved to Dhule, the whole live-at-home argument for training in Mumbai disappears. Ask which field your hours will be flown at.
Maharashtra holds more approved bases than any other state, and none of the nine organisations below is in Mumbai. They are listed with the airfield the regulator names, the fleet it prints and the fee each school publishes or refuses to publish. There are no distances or travel times anywhere on this page, from Mumbai or from anywhere else: the regulator publishes an address, and a plausible drive time is the same invented number as a plausible fee.
| Organisation, bases, fleet and approval | DGCA ranking | Headline fee |
|---|---|---|
| Ambitions Flying Club. Karad Airport, Karad-Patan Road, Karad, Satara, Maharashtra. 4 single engine and no multi engine aircraft: Cessna 152, Cessna 172R, Cessna 172S. Approval 06/2016, valid to 30 November 2027. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | Not publishedon the school's own site, checked 8 September 2026 |
| Carver Aviation. Plot No. P-50, MIDC Ind. Area, Near Baramati Airport, Baramati, Maharashtra. 9 single engine and 1 multi engine aircraft: Cessna 172, Cessna 172S, Cessna 152, Partenavia 68C. Approval 05/2015, valid to 29 April 2029. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | ₹59,00,000Published |
| IGRUA. Airport Authority of India, Birsi Airport, P.O.P; Paraswada, Gondia, Maharashtra. 13 single engine and 2 multi engine aircraft: TB-20, ZLIN 242L, Diamond DA-40, Diamond DA-42. Approval 01/1999, valid to 26 March 2029. The regulator also bases it at Fursatganj Airfield, Raebareli, Amethi, Uttar Pradesh; Kalaburagi Airport, Gulbarga, Karnataka. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | ₹55,00,000Published |
| Jet Serve Aviation. Flyola Aviation Academy, Jalgaon Airport, Jalgaon, Maharashtra. 4 single engine and 4 multi engine aircraft: Cessna-172, R-44 (helicopter), KA C-90A, SKA B-200. Approval 02/2022, valid to 26 December 2027. The regulator also bases it at Flyola Aviation Academy, Terminal Road, Khajuraho Airport, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | Not publishedon the school's own site, checked 8 September 2026 |
| Nagpur Flying Club. Hangar no. 1, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Sonegaon Aerodrome, Nagpur, Maharashtra; Moorwa airstrip, Chandrapur, Maharashtra. 4 single engine and no multi engine aircraft: Cessna 172R, Cessna 152. Approval 23/2016, valid to 15 November 2028. | Category C, 1 April 2026 edition | Not publishedas a course total, checked 8 September 2026 |
| National Flying Training Institute (CAE Gondia). Birsi Airport, Paraswada, Gondia, Maharashtra. 12 single engine and 2 multi engine aircraft: Diamond DA40, Diamond DA42. Approval 20/2016, valid to 18 February 2028. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | ₹42,00,000Published |
| Redbird Flight Training Academy. Baramati Airport, Pune District, Maharashtra. 45 single engine and 3 multi engine aircraft: Tecnam P2008JC, Cessna 172, Cessna 172P, Tecnam P2010TDI, Tecnam P-mentor, Technam P2006T. Approval 01/2020, valid to 22 July 2030. The regulator also bases it at Suktara Airport, Seoni, Madhya Pradesh; Lilabari Airport, North Lakhimpur, Assam; Kalaburagi Airport, Kalaburagi, Karnataka; Belagavi Airport, Belagavi, Karnataka. | Category C, 1 April 2026 edition | ₹45,31,000Reported |
| Skynex Aero. Jalgaon Airport, Jalgaon, Maharashtra. 18 single engine and 1 multi engine aircraft: Cessna 172, C-172, Piper PA-28-181, Piper PA-28-181 (Archer 3), Tecnam P2006T. Approval 01/2022, valid to 30 May 2027. The regulator also bases it at Mahsana, Mahsana, Gujarat. | Category B, 1 April 2026 edition | Not publishedon the school's own site, checked 8 September 2026 |
| SVKM NMIMS Academy of Aviation. Shirpur Airstrip, Dist. Dhule, Shirpur, Maharashtra. 5 single engine and 1 multi engine aircraft: Cessna 172R, Tecnam P2008JC, Cessna 172S, Tecnam P2006T. Approval 14/2016, valid to 26 August 2027. | Category C, 1 April 2026 edition | Not publishedfor the standalone commercial licence, checked 8 September 2026 |
Every row is transcribed from the DGCA's own published list of approved flying training organisations, as on 30 March 2026.
Two things on that table are worth reading twice. The first is Gondia, where twoof those organisations are approved at the same Birsi airfield, which means the field's traffic and its slots are shared between them. The second is that the biggest operator on it does not only fly here: the regulator bases Redbird at Baramati Airport, Pune District, Maharashtra and in three other states, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, so the field you are sent to is a question worth asking before you pay.
One. The Bombay Flying Club is the only organisation the regulator's approved list bases in the city, and it flies from Juhu. Everything else you will be shown with a Mumbai address is a ground school preparing you for the DGCA papers, an agent for a school that flies elsewhere in Maharashtra or abroad, or a cabin crew institute. None of those can log your flying hours, and the regulator's list is the place to check any name you are given.
It does not say. Its own pilot training page carries fee fields that are blank, which is a specific kind of silence: somebody built a page to hold a price and no price was put in it. A figure from listing sites circulates and it is the lowest private-school number in this whole directory, which is exactly the combination that should slow you down, so we publish it labelled as reported and we say plainly it has never been seen on the club's own page.
Weigh two things that are not the fee. Staying at Juhu means you keep living at home, and accommodation and food are the costs no school quotes you, so a Mumbai student who trains in Mumbai starts several lakh ahead of one who moves to an airstrip. Against that, Juhu is a busy urban field with real traffic, and how quickly you finish depends on aircraft availability there, which nobody publishes. The bases further out in Maharashtra are quieter fields where the aeroplane is more often free, and where you are paying rent.
Every approved organisation in the country, grouped by state, is on the flying schools in India index.