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The vanilla FAA PPL includes the Night Rating (or is it a Qualification?) by default.
It's actually a problem for people from Alaska as it doesn't get legally night for several months of the year. Any PPLs gained in that period have a limitation "Day VFR only" until they've done the night hours once that's legally possible. Or something like that.
All things are relative - I saw an FAA document some years ago which showed a target by which time they hoped to get at least 50% of the pilots flying in Alaska licenced!
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