N36PL
Available
CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR20 · 2006
$250/hr wet, fuel included
- Seats
- 4
- Cruise
- 155 kt
- Burn
- 10.5 gph
Flight training · Part 61 · Denton (KDTO)
Learn to fly in a Cirrus, on your schedule.
Glass cockpits, a private office at Sheltair and instructors who plan around your calendar. Built for adults who want to fly well, not just pass a checkride.
- Aircraft
- Cirrus SR20-G2 · Jabiru J170
- Home base
- Sheltair FBO, KDTO
- Instruction
- A4-approved Part 61 CFIs
- Membership
- Not required to train
Your path
New, returning or moving up.
Start with a discovery flight. Then train with a $1,000 deposit that's credited to your flying. No club dues to train.
Learn to fly as an adult
Private and sport pilot training at your pace. Your calendar, not a cohort. No factory syllabus.
Cirrus transition
Already a pilot? Move into the SR20's glass cockpit and autopilot with an instructor who flies it every week.
Rusty pilot
Away for a while? Get current again with a flight review and a plan built around what you want to fly next.
Aircraft rates include fuel; instruction is billed separately on one invoice.
Why train here
Aircraft. Home base. Instructor.
Review aircraft-specific equipment, a Sheltair home base and an instructor plan suited to your goals and actual availability.
Quality aircraft
Cirrus and light sport. Choose with your instructor.
Train in a glass-panel Cirrus SR20-G2 with Avidyne Entegra and a DFC 100 autopilot, or build hours affordably in the Jabiru J170 light sport. Every rate is a wet rate published from the same record members book against — fuel included, instruction billed separately.
- Two IFR-equipped SR20-G2s plus a light sport trainer
- Managed maintenance with data-driven grounding decisions
- Published wet rates, 0.1-hour billing, one statement
Top-tier FBO
Sheltair at KDTO — the field's full-service FBO.
Brief in the pilot lounge at Sheltair FBO, Denton Enterprise Airport. Pilot amenities, planning space and fuel service support your visit to this towered field north of DFW. Plan your travel around local traffic.
- Staffed ramp, pilot lounge and briefing space
- Towered field, two runways, practice areas reviewed with your instructor
- Fuel, hangar and after-hours support on site
Approved CFIs
A4-approved instructors, vetted and accountable.
Instruction is delivered under Part 61 by A4-approved independent contractor CFIs — credential-checked, insured, and current on our aircraft and procedures. The club invoices their time on your statement and pays them directly, so you never chase a second invoice.
- Credentials, currency and insurance verified before approval
- Aircraft-specific checkout before instructing in the type
- Instruction billed on your club invoice — never separately
Curriculum
Your flight path starts here.
From your first preflight to your next rating. A clear route, with room to make it your own.
PPL · 3 stages · 28 lessons
Private Pilot Certificate (ASEL)
A structured Part 61 course taking a student from no experience to the Private Pilot practical test, organized in three stages — Pre-Solo, Cross-Country and Test Preparation — each ending in a stage check flown with a pilot other than your instructor.
Cirrus SR20-G2 or Jabiru J170 · 14 CFR §61.109 · Rev 1.2
- 28 sequenced flight lessons with digital worksheets
- Stage checks with a second CFI before you move on
- §61.109 aeronautical experience audited against your signed logbook
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Stage 01
10 lessonsPre-Solo
You operate the aircraft in the traffic pattern and the local area, recover from stalls, handle common emergencies, and demonstrate the judgment required for solo flight.
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Stage 02
13 lessonsCross-Country
You fly solo cross-country, night and simulated instrument flights, and consolidate aircraft handling to Private ACS tolerance.
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Stage 03
5 lessonsTest Preparation
You demonstrate every Private ACS Task to test tolerance, fly the mock checkride to standard, and receive the §61.39(a)(6)(i) endorsement.
Inside the portal
Your training runs on our portal, not a paper folder.
Members and students get scheduling, digital worksheets, logbook tracking and billing in one place. Here is what it looks like.
Flight Academy course catalogue
Every syllabus, stage and worksheet in one place, with your next lesson surfaced at the top.
Student dashboard
Progress through your rating, currency, upcoming reservations and instructor notes on one screen.
Scheduling
Book aircraft and instructors by the hour, subscribe to a calendar feed, and print the dispatch sheet.
The aircraft you'll train in
A small fleet, maintained properly, priced wet.
Primary training in the Jabiru light sport, instrument and cross-country work in the IFR-equipped SR20-G2s. Same rates you see in the portal.
From our flights
This is what we come here for.
Our aircraft. Our flying. A few moments from the ramp to the runway.
From the front seat
The runway comes into view.
Two approaches, filmed from the cockpit of our Cirrus N36PL.
How training starts
Four steps from first flight to checkride prep.
Start with a discovery flight, discuss a plan with the team, and fund training with a credited $1,000 deposit. Aircraft and instruction are then billed as used.
01
Explore a discovery flight
J170 $165 by phone or SR20 $200 online. Both include 0.8 flight hour with instruction plus briefing, preflight and debrief. Your CFI reviews applicable training credit.
02
Set up your student account
Submit the short online form, complete the identity and FAA registry review, and sign one digital agreement package.
03
Start training with a $1,000 deposit
The deposit opens your enrollment and is applied to aircraft and instruction as you fly, then billed hourly from there.
04
Train to the checkride
Work the syllabus stage by stage with your CFI, with progress, currency and experience tracked in the portal.
On the line
Our aircraft, our ramp.
Every photograph is a club aircraft at Denton Enterprise Airport.
