Flying schools

Marigold Aviation

The thinnest entry in this directory, and it is here because it publishes a real price. What it does not publish is where the flying happens.

This page is deliberately short. The company publishes a cadet price and an assessment fee, both in dollars, and that is genuinely more than several better-known names in this directory manage. What it does not publish, and what our research could not confirm, is where the flying that the price buys actually happens.

That gap is the reason this entry sits in the overseas-route section rather than among the Indian flying schools. We know it is an IndiGo cadet partner and we know the price is set in dollars, which is what partners who buy their flying abroad do. We do not know the airfield, so we do not name one.

The one small thing worth pointing out is the assessment fee, which is charged in dollars where the Indian-based routes charge theirs in rupees. It is a minor detail and it points the same way as the pricing does.

Where it flies, and what it teaches

The facts we holdOnly what our source records. A blank here is a gap in our research and not a claim about the school.
WhatOur source records
Registered nameMG Aviation
BasesIndia, with partner schools our source does not name individually
AircraftNone named in our source, so we name none
CoursesIndiGo cadet pilot programme
Figures checked14 June 2026

How far you can trust each number below

Published
Printed on the operator's or the regulator's own page.
Reported
From a brochure, an aggregator or a cadet, not from the operator's own price list.
Estimated
A range built up from parts, not lifted whole from any one source.
Undisclosed
No public number exists. We say so rather than filling the gap.

What it charges

Every figure we hold for this schoolEach row carries the label that says who published it. Rows with different labels are not comparable and are never added together.
What you pay forAmountWhat the figure is
The cadet programme, quoted in dollarsUSD 132,000PublishedThe published total. Where the flying that it buys takes place is not stated on the same page.
Selection assessment feeUSD 360PublishedA dollar-priced assessment fee, which is unusual: the Indian routes charge theirs in rupees.
The programme in rupees, at the rate of the day it was checkedabout ₹1,10,00,000ReportedOurs rather than the company's, so it drifts with the exchange rate and is not a quoted price.

The cadet programme, quoted in dollars: read from the company's own cadet programme page, checked 14 June 2026. Selection assessment fee: read from the same company page, checked 14 June 2026. The programme in rupees, at the rate of the day it was checked: read from the rupee equivalent our cost research recorded on the day it read the page, checked 14 June 2026.

How you get in

Selection is the airline's, and placement with this company follows it, with the assessment fee payable to sit the assessment itself.

Before anything else, ask where the flying phase takes place and in which country, because that is the fact this route does not publish and it changes the visa, the travel and the length.

What this school does not publish

The flying location is not published, which at this price is the most significant omission on any page in this directory.

There is no published breakdown of the total into ground school, flying and type rating, so what the price buys is stated only as a whole.

Where this sits in the wider 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. This school also appears on our IndiGo cadet pilot programme page, where the airline side of the same route is set out.

Common questions

Why is this page shorter than the others?

Because there is less to say that we can stand behind. Padding it with plausible sentences about a school we have not verified is exactly the failure this directory was built to avoid.

Where does the flying happen?

Not published, and we will not guess. Ask before you apply, because the answer decides the visa, the travel cost and how long you are away.

Is the dollar price the whole cost?

It is the whole published cost. Airfare, visa costs, medicals and the statutory Indian licence costs are not inside it, and the assessment fee is charged before any of it.