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About Us
At Race City Flight Operations, we value high quality flight instruction over quick instruction. Race City Flight Operations works to improve, innovate, and make a better environment and training program for our students. Our goal is to help create pilots – whether you want to be an airline pilot or a hobby pilot-great and safe pilots instead of using the minimums as the completion standards. We believe, if they are taught to be great pilots, they will be safe and competent pilots months and years after their training.




Race City Flight Operations has been recognized for its high standard of accomplishment in flight training by The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the world’s largest aviation association. Race City Flight Operations has been awarded a spot on the Flight Training Experience Awards as a Distinguished Flight School, a title given to high scoring flight schools & instructors from the 2025 Flight Training Experience Survey.
The 2025 awards were drawn from flight students and pilots who voluntarily reviewed their flight training experience this past fall through an AOPA online customer satisfaction survey. The process yielded an evaluation of 780 different flight schools and 1,202 individual flight instructors.
Our Training Program
Why Race City Flight Operations?
-We are one of the best flight schools to become a COMMERCIAL pilot, AIRLINE pilot or your FAMILY pilot!
-Small runway creates CONFIDENCE anywhere you go.
-AATD FLIGHT SIMULATOR continues training through unfavorable flying weather.
-In-house MAINTENANCE ensures our planes are always available to our students.
-FRIENDLY and DEDICATED team members.
-COMPETITIVE PRICES with flight schools in the area.
-Available for flight lessons 7 days a week allowing FLEXIBILITY for every student’s schedule.
-HOUSING is available for out of region students. Get out of the bad weather and trying with us!
Our Instructors!
Our flight instructors are dedicated to our students’ goals. The student may be an airline pilot career hopeful, or the student may just casually want to learn how to fly. Either way-the priority is always the student. By teaching from a syllabus, your progress will never be held up by a vacation or sickness.
Check Out What We’re Doing!
Happy Easter everyone! ✈️🐰🐣
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Fly With Race City Flight Ops and Discover your Wings!
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We love seeing our students out and about! If you’re in the Mooresville or Statesville area, don’t forget to look up and see if you can spot us! ✈️✈️👀
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At RCFO, train by individual courses or join our Career Pilot Program for fast-track training! We offer PPL, INST, COMM, CFI, and CFII 141 or 61 ✈️✈️
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Paloma and Cole had a blast taking turns with a discovery flight each and we couldn’t be happier to share the experience with them! (ft. CFI Elliott) ✈️✈️
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Need to finish your PPL in under two months? Just ask Jonathan if it’s possible…(hint: yes, it is!) Congratulations!! ft. CFI Matt ✈️✈️👏
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Is this the “somewhere over the rainbow” they sing about?? ✈✈🌈
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Don’t forget that we also operate out of KSVH, all to give our students more options and easier access to training! ✈✈👍
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April showers make for great instrument training flights! ✈🌦✈
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Schedule your Discovery Flight and begin your aviation journey here at Race City Flight Ops! ✈️✈️
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Christine was really keen for her discovery flight with CFI Elliott and CFI Dylan! We hope to see you back soon for some lessons! ✈✈👏
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Who’s ready for a game of Where’s Waldo — RCFO edition?! Can you guess what airport we’re at (hint: the identifier starts with K 😉) ✈✈
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Seeing the clouds up close is an unex-plane-able experience! See for yourself by taking a discovery flight or signing up for training! ✈👏✈
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Don’t want to perform subpar on your PAR? (pun intended) Then make sure to sign up for our Private Pilot Ground School starting this weekend! Sign up by purchasing on our website ✈✈
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Sunrise or sunset? Which do you like best!? ✈✈😍
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Just because the rain doesn’t stop doesn’t mean the learning does! We have an amazing maintenance crew here at RCFO who are happy to share what they know when the weather doesn’t permit for flying 👏✈️🌧️
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April showers bring…more discovery flights? We’ll take it! So glad we got to welcome Alex (and his family) to RCFO and the world of aviation with a discovery flight! ✈✈👍
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Alyssa (middle) is getting a head start on her training before going off to school in the Fall and she started with a discovery flight at RCFO! (ft. CFI Elliott & Alexis) ✈✈👏
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Ben gave us a 10/10 for his discovery flight! (not an April Fools joke) ✈✈👏
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Night flight to CLT anyone? ✈😍✈
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Spreading the love (for aviation)! RCFO student Gage (far right) brought his good friend Jacob (middle) in for a discovery flight, making for a great memory! (ft. CFI Trent) ✈✈
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Proudly presenting Tommy, a CFI applicant AND our exclusive RCFO hat model! Stop in today to get your very own! ✈✈😁
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📢Private Pilot Ground School coming up‼
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Getting ahead is never a bad thing… and we can help with that! ✈️✈️
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Hooray for Sanjay!! Congratulations on your 1st Solo, we’re so incredibly proud of this achievement! (ft. CFI Jinhang) ✈️✈️👏
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The only time we don’t mind third wheeling is on discovery flights! 😉 We’re glad John and his wife had a great time learning to fly over Lake Norman (ft. CFI Chloe) ✈️✈️
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Start earning Fall flight credits at RCFO now through summer break and get ahead of the game! ✈✈
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Our 10 Tips for Success in Flight School: Ace Your Training and Soar High
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Don’t forget about our satellite location over at Statesville (KSVH)! ✈✈
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