Welcome to our Flight School!

Take the controls and throttle up! Explore the beauty and splendor of flying in the Hawaiian Islands. Take up the challenge and learn to fly in one of the most perfect places on earth to fly, where the weather is consistently mild year round.

Tropicbird Flight Service

If you are visiting the Islands, take our Island Adventure Flying Course, and learn from a very experienced local instructor just what it takes to be an island pilot. Finish what you started years ago and earn those wings. Fly high above the Kona coast on the Big Island and melt into the Hawaiian sunset!

Tropicbird Flight Service was created to provide local residents and visitors with top quality flight training. Our instructors and mechanics are professionals with many years of experience and are long-term residents of the islands. At Tropicbird Flight Service, we love what we do and consider it a privilege to live and fly here. Whether you are pursuing a career in aviation or just want the challenge of earning your wings, this is an awesome place to do it and great people to do it with.

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Kami's First Solo flight!

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Kona Airport Traffic Pattern flight

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Kona Coast Cruise Flight

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Kami's First Solo flight!

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Kona Airport Traffic Pattern flight

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Kona Coast Cruise Flight

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Tropicbird Aircraft