The oldest flying club in the country flies from an airfield inside Mumbai, and leaves the fee fields on its own course page empty.
This is the oldest institution in the directory by a wide margin, and it flies from Juhu, which is an airfield inside Mumbai rather than an airstrip somewhere quiet. That is the thing worth weighing about it. You are not moving to a training campus, which removes the accommodation problem entirely if you already live in the city, and it puts you in controlled airspace with real traffic from your first hours.
The finance is the opposite of the geography: opaque. The club's own pilot training page has the fee fields blank, which is a specific kind of silence rather than a page that simply never mentions money. Somebody built a page to hold a price and no price was put in it.
What circulates instead is a figure from listing sites that is the lowest private-school number in this whole directory. A low number with weak provenance is exactly the combination that should slow you down, so we publish it labelled and we say plainly that it has never been seen on the club's own page.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | The Bombay Flying Club, which is also how it is commonly known |
| Bases | Juhu, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Aircraft | None named in our source, so we name none |
| Courses | Commercial pilot licence |
| Figures checked | 15 June 2026 |
| What you pay for | Amount | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|
| Licence course | about ₹34,56,000Reported | The lowest private-school figure in this directory, and the one with the weakest provenance. |
| Hostel | ₹2,34,000Reported | Quoted for the course rather than per month, and this is Mumbai, so check what it covers. |
Licence course: read from aggregator course listings, never seen on the club's own page, checked 15 June 2026. Hostel: read from the same listings, checked 15 June 2026.
Every figure above was read somewhere other than the school, because the school's own price is Not publishedon the club's own course page, checked 15 June 2026
Admission is through the club, and the practical question to settle first is aircraft availability rather than fee, because an urban airfield with shared slots is where flying hours get slow.
If you already live in Mumbai the accommodation line disappears, which changes the comparison against a campus school more than any difference in the course fee does.
The club's own fee fields are blank, so its course price is genuinely Undisclosed by the club rather than merely hard to find.
There is 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.
Nothing above is the whole cost of becoming a pilot. Our pilot training cost in India page has the full stack from the medicals to the type rating, and CPL course fees in India puts this school's licence figure next to the rest of the market.
On the circulating figure it is the lowest private number in this directory. That figure has never appeared on the club's own page, so treat the ranking as provisional rather than as a finding.
In living costs yes, if you are moving there. If you already live in the city it is the opposite: you skip an accommodation line that every campus school in this directory charges.
We do not know, and we are not going to guess at a reason. What we can say is what the page shows, and what it shows is a fee field with nothing in it on the date we checked.