Flying schools in Mumbai
The regulator's approved list bases exactly one flying training organisation in Mumbai, and it flies from Juhu.
Approved to train in Mumbai.
Categories are from DGCA's latest ranking, the 1 April 2026 edition. Bases, fleet and approval dates are transcribed from the DGCA's published list.
Every fee carries one of four labels:
- Published. Printed on the operator's or the regulator's own page.
- Reported. From a brochure, an aggregator or a cadet.
- Estimated. Built up from parts.
- Undisclosed. No public number exists.
Juhu, and what the club does not print.
- Juhu is an airfield inside Mumbai. If you already live in the city you take accommodation and food out of the total, and you fly in controlled airspace from your first hours.
- The club's own pilot training page has the fee fields blank. The figure that circulates for it comes from listing sites and has never been seen on the club's own page.
- Nothing published says how long the course takes at current aircraft availability. At a busy urban airfield that is the number that decides the real cost. Ask for it in writing, with how many aircraft are serviceable this month.
- The regulator files the club's second base, Dhule Airstrip, under Mumbai, but Dhule is a separate district in the north of the state.
Approved bases elsewhere in Maharashtra.
- At Gondia, two of these organisations are approved at the same Birsi airfield, so its traffic and its slots are shared between them.
Maharashtra
Common questions.
How many DGCA approved flying schools are there in Mumbai?
One. The regulator's approved list, as on 3 October 2026, bases a single flying training organisation in the city: the Bombay Flying Club, at Juhu. Every other Mumbai name you will be shown is a ground school, an agent for a school that flies elsewhere, or a cabin crew institute. Ask any of them which airfield your hours will be flown at, and check the answer against the regulator's list yourself.
Why is there no published fee for the Bombay Flying Club?
The club does not print one. Its own pilot training page has the fee fields blank, so the figure that circulates for it comes from listing sites and carries the reported label wherever it appears here. A low number from a weak source is exactly the one to check twice.
Is training in Mumbai cheaper because I can live at home?
It takes out accommodation and food, which are real money over eighteen months and which no school quotes you. It does not take out the risk that your flying happens somewhere else. The regulator prints a second base for the club, and a student moved there loses the whole live-at-home saving. Settle that in writing before you pay a registration fee.