Jose Aguilar
Operations Manager
Airport
Conroe / North Houston Regional Airport · KCXO
Houston-area flight school in Conroe, TX.
A Conroe flight school near The Woodlands and Houston, with practice areas outside the busiest airspace.
Metro
Greater Houston
Near
The Woodlands and Houston
Why a Conroe flight school.
- Houston metro access without Houston metro airspace
- Next to The Woodlands
- Convenient practice areas keep more of the lesson airborne
What you would train in
Piper Archer TX for private, instrument and commercial single-engine; Piper Seminole for multi-engine; approved flight simulation devices for procedures work. Same fleet, same syllabus, same Part 141 certificate (3USS960L) at every campus.
The field: Conroe / North Houston Regional Airport (KCXO).
- Airport
- Conroe / North Houston Regional Airport
- Identifier
- KCXO
- Field elevation
- 245 ft
- Airspace
- Class D, outside Houston Class B
- Frequency
- Tower 118.7
- Weather
- About 221 flyable days a year
Practice areas. North and east over the Sam Houston National Forest, 7 minutes out
| Runway | Length | Surface | Approaches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 6,000 ft | Asphalt | ILS, RNAV |
| 1/19 | 5,000 ft | Asphalt | RNAV |
Getting here
- The Woodlands 18 miles
- Downtown Houston 44 miles
- Houston Intercontinental 28 miles · IAH
Who runs Conroe.
Two people you will deal with directly. They are on this field, not at head office.
Zach Davis
Assistant Chief Flight Instructor
What is on this ramp.
The Conroe campus fleet includes four Piper Archer TX aircraft, one Piper Seminole and one Redbird FMX full-motion simulator. Every aircraft has a glass cockpit, autopilot and air conditioning.
4
Piper Archer TXSingle-engine trainer. Glass cockpit, autopilot, air conditioning
1
Piper SeminoleTwin-engine, for the multi-engine rating
1
Redbird FMXFull-motion simulator, used for instrument and procedure training
Maintained by an affiliated Part 145 repair station. Aircraft move between campuses as demand shifts, so these counts change through the year.
Where you would live.
Kelly Boulevard Commons
Kelly Boulevard Commons is the Conroe student housing, 2.8 miles from the hangar. Furnished two-bedroom apartments cost $900 per month, or $10,800 for 12 months, billed separately from the $120,000 program price.
2.8 miles from the hangar · Two-bedroom apartments, two students per room
- Furnished, with a bed and desk per student
- All utilities and internet
- Washer and dryer in the unit
- Pool
- Parking for one car per student
Twenty minutes to The Woodlands, forty-five to downtown Houston.
12 months × $900 = $10,800
Housing is not part of the $120,000 program price. It is billed separately, month by month.
The Conroe campus buildings.
1007 General Thomas Kelly Boulevard, Conroe, TX 77303 · Every day, 8am to 6pm
Hangar, dispatch and classrooms
1007 General Thomas Kelly Blvd
One building: hangar, dispatch, administration and classroom areas.
Thrust Institute of Maintenance
Same field
A&P mechanic training since 2025.
Next Conroe class start dates.
Seats are capped by how many aircraft and instructors are on this field, so a class fills and closes.
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The other five Thrust Flight campuses.
Addison, TX
Addison Airport · KADS
Main campus. 13 miles north of downtown Dallas, 16 northeast of DFW, 11 north of Love Field.
Denison, TX
North Texas Regional Airport · KGYI
Wide-open practice areas and a quiet pattern, 20 minutes' flight north of Addison.
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Conroe, TX
Conroe / North Houston Regional Airport · KCXO
Near The Woodlands and Houston, with practice areas outside the busiest airspace.
Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Spinks Airport · KFWS
South Fort Worth, at Spinks. The west side of the Metroplex without the Addison drive.
Mesa, AZ
Falcon Field · KFFZ
East Valley of Phoenix. Desert practice areas and flyable weather almost every day of the year.
Newport News, VA
Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport · KPHF
Opened in 2026 in partnership with Hampton University, on ground with its own aviation history.
Come and look first.
An advisor will arrange a campus visit, and you can talk to the instructors who would actually be teaching you.
Arrange a visit to Conroe→Worth a look.
Read more about airline pilot training at North Houston Regional Airport.