One School, One Address

Areas We Serve

Students drive in to us from across the Sacramento region. Every lesson, every discovery flight and every checkride we prepare you for happens at Sacramento McClellan Airport (KMCC), 3028 Peacekeeper Way, McClellan Park, CA 95652 — so this page is about where that is relative to you.

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Our Base

Where The School Is

When this page mentions Roseville or Elk Grove, it means students from those places train with us at McClellan. Here is where that is, and how the trip looks from each direction.

Sacramento McClellan Airport sits in McClellan Park, on the north side of the Sacramento metro, north-east of downtown. It is a former U.S. Air Force base, which is why the runway and the ramp are larger than what you would expect at a general aviation field. You enter McClellan Park from Watt Avenue and follow Peacekeeper Way to the main FBO entrance.

Practically, that puts us on the same side of the American River as the northern suburbs, so students from the north drive in without crossing the river or the city. From the south or east of the metro the trip does cross one or the other, which is worth knowing when you pick a lesson slot.

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Which Field You Are Actually Nearest To

The Sacramento region has several general aviation airports and flight training runs from most of them. Sacramento Executive (SAC) sits south of downtown, Mather (MHR) to the east, Lincoln Regional (LHM) up in northern Placer County, and McClellan (KMCC) is the north-side field. If you live north or north-east of the city, McClellan is usually the closest of the four. From Roseville or Rocklin it is a genuine toss-up with Lincoln. From Elk Grove or Davis it is not the closest at all, and we would rather say so here than let you work it out after the first drive.

Distance is the question people ask, but frequency is the question that decides. A student flying twice a week reaches a checkride on fewer total hours than one flying twice a month, because less of every lesson goes on recovering the last one. The drive that matters is the one you are willing to make every week, not the one you can make once.

How lessons are scheduled and how often to fly

Who Drives Here

Neighbourhoods Our Students Come From

These are the parts of the Sacramento region we regularly train people from. They are not separate locations and they are not separate prices — the rate is $110 an hour, all in, wherever you drive in from.

Approximate driving times to 3028 Peacekeeper Way outside commute traffic. This is not a service boundary — it is one address, and these are the drives students make to reach it.
Driving from	Which way, and what you cross	Typical drive
Foothill Farms, North Highlands	Next to the field, on Watt Avenue	Under 15 minutes
Antelope, Rio Linda, Elverta	North of the field; no river, no downtown	Under 20 minutes
Citrus Heights, Carmichael, Arden-Arcade	East and south-east, still north of the American River	About 20 minutes
Natomas	West, across Interstate 80	About 15 minutes
Roseville, Rocklin	North-east into Placer County, north of the river	25–30 minutes
Granite Bay, Loomis	Further into Placer County, same direction	30–35 minutes
Downtown Sacramento	South down Watt or the 160; you cross the river	About 15 minutes
Rancho Cordova	South-east, across the river and Highway 50	About 25 minutes
Folsom, Elk Grove, Davis, Woodland	The outer edges of the metro, in four different directions	About 35 minutes

North Sacramento — North Highlands, Antelope, Rio Linda, Elverta, Natomas

The closest neighbourhoods to the field. For most people living here the drive is short enough that a weekday lesson after work is realistic rather than aspirational, which matters more than it sounds: flying every week is what keeps training moving.

See how lessons are scheduled

Citrus Heights and Carmichael

East of the field, on the north side of the American River. Citrus Heights has its own page because we get asked about it often enough to answer it properly.

Flight training for Citrus Heights

Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay and Loomis

Placer County, north-east of the field, and a straightforward run down that stays on the north side of the river. Placer County students tend to book early mornings or a repeating weekend slot.

Flight training for Roseville pilots

Sacramento, Arden-Arcade, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, Elk Grove and Davis

The city itself and the southern and eastern metro. Students come from all of these, often because we schedule the same instructor every lesson rather than whoever happens to be free — which is what keeps a certificate moving.

Why The Closest Neighbourhoods Have No Page Of Their Own

Foothill Farms, North Highlands, Antelope, Rio Linda and Carmichael are the shortest drives to the field, and not one of them has a page here. That is deliberate. There is nothing different to tell you: same address, same $110 an hour, same seven-day schedule — and a page repeating that in five wordings would waste the ten minutes you saved on the drive.

Roseville and Citrus Heights have pages because in each case there is one practical thing to say: a cross-county trip that rewards a repeating early slot, and a route that stays on your side of the American River. Where there is nothing like that to add, the honest version of a city page is the table above.

One base, one address — no second office, no satellite classroom, and no instructor who drives out to you
Nowhere is priced differently for being further away, and nowhere is turned down for being far
A town missing from the table is a gap in the table, not a boundary — call and ask whether the trip makes sense

What the training actually costs

The school’s aircraft on its ramp at McClellan

Scheduling Around The Drive

Fitting Lessons Around Your Week

All flying and ground instruction happens at our McClellan base, and the schedule is built to make that trip easy to repeat. We fly seven days a week from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, so early mornings, evenings and weekends are all bookable, and regular students hold a repeating slot. Weekends fill first, so claim one early. The office answers the phone Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

One address · seven days a week · 7 AM to 7 PM

Written For A Place

City Pages

A city gets its own page here when there is something specific to say about training from that direction. If you live somewhere not listed above and want to know whether the trip makes sense, call us and ask — that answer is better coming from a person.

Roseville and Rocklin seen from a training aircraft

Flight training for Roseville pilots

What training at McClellan involves if you live in Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay or Loomis — and how to build a schedule that makes a cross-county trip worth it.

Citrus Heights and Carmichael seen from a training aircraft

Flight training for Citrus Heights

The same, for Citrus Heights and Carmichael — including the practical advantage of being on the same side of the American River as the airport.

The Same First Step

Where To Start

Wherever you are driving from, the first step is the same for everyone: a discovery flight.

It is $200 for one passenger and $300 for two or three, about 45 minutes in the air and about 90 minutes at the airfield in total. You fly the aircraft yourself with an instructor beside you, and if you decide afterwards that flying is not for you, that is the end of it — nothing is signed on the day.

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