Membership Availability

Membership in Club Cherokee is open to any pilot as well as anyone wanting to become a pilot, depending on membership openings available.  We solicit new members throughout the year and you can join at any time. 

Additionally, immediate household family members are allowed to fly under a club member's membership. This benefit enables your family to begin flight training or expand their flight skills at a very affordable rate.

Investment

Members join the club by buying a share of stock in the club (the club is a corporation) as an initial, one-time investment. The present share price is only $4100. That's right, a tremendous value for ownership in 6 wonderful airplanes!

We have two investment options to choose from:

  1. Standard Plan - Invest the full share price amount.

  2. Installment Plan - Make an initial payment of 50% down and pay the remainder in monthly installments over 3 months. A 9% APR is applied to the outstanding balance. Standard monthly dues payments are required during the installment period.

If a fully invested member moves out of the area or otherwise decides they no longer want to fly with Club Cherokee, they can sell their membership.  This makes a membership position open to a new member. Club Cherokee's Membership Officer will help facilitate the sale of shares.

 

Dues

Monthly dues are set by the Board of Directors to cover insurance and fixed costs.  The current rate is set at $110 (plus tax) per month.

Rates

Rates paid by members for use of the planes are based on tachometer hours.  This is a great advantage over most other flying clubs and FBO's who charge based on hobbs time.  With the tachometer measurement, members are charged 15-20 percent less per chargeable hour than if the industry standard hobbs meter were used. 

This charge method, coupled with the lower rates charged for the entry level aircraft, makes an extremely attractive value proposition for someone interested in obtaining their pilot's license.  And once you have your license, you will benefit from the low rates on the higher performance aircraft in the fleet.

Join Us ...

Learn more about Club Cherokee and take a look at our fleet of aircraft by browsing this web site.  We offer personal tours and demo flights to anyone interested in joining Club Cherokee. Come Fly With Us, we're always eager to go up! Or, if you're ready to join the most active Twin Cities flying club, Apply Now!

Not quite ready? Still have questions not answered by our site? OK. Feel free to email our Club Manager or call us at 763-536-5991. We want this to be a smooth takeoff for every member.