Ventura Flight Training

Make it happen, cap’n. During your exciting one-hour lesson at the 30-plus-year-old Ventura Flight Training center, you can man one of four different small aircrafts and cruise over Long Island’s Gold Coast or Great South Bay. (If those views don’t perk you up like a jolt of espresso, we honestly don’t know what will.) Your first takeoff also includes ground instruction, a logbook for future flights, pics of you doing your thing in the cockpit, a free ticket to the Cradle of Aviation Museum and a certificate for a job well done.