Superior Flying Services is a Part 61 flight school and full-service FBO at KSUW in Superior, Wisconsin — four Cessna 172s, a Piper Seneca III for multi-engine training, and in-house maintenance that keeps aircraft downtime short. It is a small school on purpose: four full-time instructors, and every student’s progress is somebody’s job to know.
Ground school and flight training both happen here at KSUW, so you aren’t chasing a written-test course somewhere else.
Cessna 172s at $145–$155 per hour wet with instruction at $85 per hour — paid one lesson at a time, not up front.
Start with a $125 Discovery Flight; the time you log that day counts toward the certificate.
Trained in N784BG (Garmin G500 PFD/MFD and a 430W) and N616SK (dual G5s and a GTN 375) — two different panels, deliberately.
Procedures and approach repetition in the PFC DCX Max training device at $65 per hour keeps the cost of practice down.
The Northland gives you real weather to train in, which is rather the point of the rating.
Commercial maneuvers, cross-country time, and the hour-building that carries you toward airline minimums.
Instruction at $85 per hour on top of aircraft time, paid as you go rather than as a package.
Our owner still flies as a contract pilot for companies in the area, so the route from this field to a paid seat isn’t theoretical.
N325TT, a 1983 Seneca III with a Garmin 375 and a King 225 autopilot with flight director.
$395 per hour + tax, wet, with dual instruction at $85 per hour.
Most students add the rating after their Commercial; MEI training is available here too.
Taught by instructors doing the job: our owner holds CFII/MEI and still instructs actively alongside contract flying.
You learn to teach in the same aircraft you learned to fly in, on a field small enough that you know everyone in the pattern.
Ground instruction and checkride preparation both happen here at KSUW.
Proficiency checks and flight reviews with instructors experienced at every level of certification.
Aircraft checkouts so you can rent our Cessna 172s and the Seneca on your own.
The PFC DCX Max training device ($65/hr) models 23 aircraft, from a six-pack to a G1000 with GFC 700 autopilot — an inexpensive way to knock the rust off.
From first flight to a professional career — we train the whole path.
Superior Flying publishes its rates: Cessna 172s from $145 per hour wet, instruction at $85 per hour, and a $125 Discovery Flight — and how often you fly is the single biggest factor in what a certificate ends up costing.
Call us and we'll talk it through — where you are, where you want to go, and what it takes to get there, numbers included.
Serving Duluth · Hermantown · Cloquet · Ashland
