(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
A clean-sheet, glass-panel trainer built for one purpose: teaching people to fly. Light on the controls, easy on your budget, and backed by five Skycatchers on our Van Nuys line — so your lesson flies when you do.
The Skycatcher was Cessna's ground-up answer to the question every flight school asks: what does an ideal first airplane look like? The answer is a two-seat, high-wing design with a wide clamshell door, honest handling, and a Garmin G300 glass panel that introduces you to modern avionics from lesson one.
At 100 horsepower it is economical to operate, which keeps your training affordable, yet it still cruises around 118 knots and behaves predictably through every maneuver in the Private and Sport syllabus. It is the kind of airplane that rewards good habits and forgives the learning curve.
You and your instructor set the day's goal, review the maneuvers, and walk through exactly what success looks like before you touch the airplane.
Together you inspect the Skycatcher top to bottom, learning the checklist discipline that keeps every flight safe.
Hands on the controls from the first hour. Your instructor coaches while you do the flying — that is how skill actually builds.
Back on the ground you review what clicked, set the next target, and log the time that moves you toward your certificate.
Take the Skycatcher up with an instructor and find out how flying really feels. Seven days a week at Van Nuys.
Real students, real first flights, real ratings — straight from Google and Yelp.
The fastest way to know if the left seat is for you is to stand on the flight line. Book a free consultation — or reach us whichever way you like.
Tour the school, meet your instructors, sit in the cockpit, and leave with a personal training plan and exact pricing. Your Discovery Flight fee is credited toward training when you enroll within 24 hours.
One minute, a few details, fast answers from a real person on our team.
