Chartered as a nonprofit Kentucky corporation in 1954, the Lexington Flying Club, Inc. presently can provide you with access to five airplanes. They are a Cessna 150, two Cessna 172's, and two Piper Archer II's.

The club is operated to provide its members with low cost flying, safety training and continuing pilot education. All aircraft are based at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport and are maintained by FAA certified maintenance personnel to assure prompt and qualified service. A Club "Maintenance Officer" is elected for each airplane to assure that any discrepancies reported by Club pilots are quickly corrected. Scheduling of Club airplanes is coordinated through a 24 hour computerized telephone and internet answering service so members are assured of getting immediate status / availability information about the aircraft anytime they wish to fly. You will find that, if you plan to fly two and a half to three hours or more a month, a Club membership is more economical than renting.

The Club has approximately 85 members (approximately 60 active flyers.) Flying experience is not required for membership; in fact, about one fifth of our members are student pilots, taking lessons, and working towards that private pilot certificate.

Ladies, please consider us as well; three of our pilots with wallets full of ratings carry those wallets in their purses!

Although the Club is not a flight school, per se, Club approved instructors are available and have helped many of the Club's pilots obtain private and instrument licenses/ratings. We will be glad to recommend an instructor to you if you don't already have someone in mind.

You may fly the 1976 Cessna 150, the 1977 and the 1980 Cessna 172's for a $200.00 initiation fee and $41.50 per month dues.

You may fly those airplanes plus the 1979 and the 1984 Piper Archer II for a $500.00 initiation fee and $58.00 per month dues. The upper level has an option where you can pay the difference in the initiation fee over flying time.

All the club 4-place aircraft have coupled autopilots with heading bug, two or four place intercoms, and, best of all, IFR enroute/non-precision approach approved moving map GPS units!

We are in the process of upgrading our GPS units. Right now, one of our Cessna 172's and one of our Archer's have the Garmin 430W WAAS Enabled GPS/Nav/Comm system.

The remaining two 4-place airplanes have the Garmin/Apollo GX50 IFR Enroute and Approach-certified Panel Mount Units.

The C150 has the Garmin VFR GNC 250XL GPS/Comm unit. We have GPS simulators that you can load on your PC and practice with the various GPS units while in the comfort of your own home or office.

For added IFR safety, the 84 Archer II has a standby vacuum pump. All airplanes have dual nav-comms and at least one nav-comm in each airplane is a flip-flop comm radio. The 79 Archer and the two 172's have the S-TEC autopilot that gives you autopilot wing leveler capability even if the vacuum gyros or vacuum pump fails. The '77 Cessna 172 has an altitude hold feature on its autopilot, something our fliers really enjoy.

Pilots in the lower (Restricted) level of membership fly the Cessna 172's at $8/hr more than the rate shown below than those in the more expensive (Full) membership level. Other restrictions on the lower membership level include a restriction on how far out in time you may schedule (7 days) and a restriction to single day reservations. See the Bylaws for more information about the club membership levels.

You may join at either level and may elect to move up to the higher level at any time your finances and schedule permit. All the aircraft are certified for VFR and IFR Flight.

Note: Even though student pilots may join the Full membership level in order to avoid the 7 day scheduling restricton, they are still limited to flying the Cessna 150 (and 172's when signed off) until they become private pilots.

Effective 3/17/2009, hourly tach rates for flying Club aircraft are: Cessna 150 - $62.25 tach (approx $53.00 hobbs); Cessna 172's - $83.75 tach (approx $71.25 hobbs); 1984 Archer II - $96.25 tach (approx $86.75 hobbs); and 1979 Archer II with cruise prop - $100.75 tach (approx $90.75 hobbs).

Click HERE to read about the benefits of being charged by the Tachometer hour instead of the Hobbs hour.

Rates include all gas, oil, maintenance, insurance and related expenses. The Club carries $100K per person / $1,000,000 per accident liability insurance in the event of an injury or accident. This policy protects both you and the club!

If you fly one of the new Cessna's offered in the area, be aware that you are exposing yourself to a $150,000+ liability if you prang one of their airplanes. Typical FBO coverage covers only the FBO and provides no liability coverage to you, the renter. And, they definely will come after you for their $2,500 - $5,000 deductible. In fact, if you rent anybody's plane, be sure to consider having renter's insurance to cover you. None of this is needed if you are just flying LFC planes.

Use of the birds for vacations, etc is encouraged; just average an hour of flying a day during the week and 2 hours per day on the weekends.

Also, the Lexington Flying Club has occasional social programs such as an annual banquet (Spindletop, the UK Faculty Club and Ramseys have been favorites), fly-ins, picnics, wash/wax parties etc. Regular monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm at Air 51 at Blue Grass Airport. One monthly meeting each quarter is used solely as a forum for a safety program.

From time to time we need to ferry an airplane somewhere for maintenance or upgrades. You can get in on some half price flying if you join the ranks of this group of pilots!

If you would like more information, please E-mail us, or Snail Mail the Flying Club at the address below.

Feel free to contact us and we'll make arrangements to meet you at the airport and show you the airplanes!

If you are ready to join us, that's easy too! First, print, read, and sign the Insurance Summary located on this site. Then print, read, and fill out the Application Form. Mail both of these to the address at the top of the Application. We will then contact you with further information regarding checkouts, etc.

Happy Flying!

Click Here to See the Flying Club's Airplanes!

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Lexington Flying Club
P.O. Box 863, Post Rider Station
Lexington, Ky. 40588

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