(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
Looking for a flight school near Brentwood? Our school sits just over the Sepulveda Pass at Van Nuys Airport, about 11 miles from Brentwood, and we fly every day of the week from 9 AM to 9 PM. Pick up the phone, tell us your goals, and you could be at the controls this week.
Brentwood is tucked between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Westside, and that geography makes Van Nuys Airport a natural home base for local pilots. The 405 carries you straight through the Sepulveda Pass and into the San Fernando Valley, where KVNY is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. Training here means you learn real-world radio work, structured traffic patterns and professional habits from your very first lesson.
Many of our Brentwood students are professionals with full calendars: attorneys, physicians at the nearby medical centers, founders and creatives who want a skill that is entirely their own. Others are parents looking for a meaningful challenge for a high schooler. Because we are an FAA Part 61 school, your schedule is built around you, not a rigid classroom calendar, and lessons can slot into an early evening or a quiet weekend morning.
Book lessons before the afternoon rush on the 405 or after a long day on San Vicente Boulevard. We keep the same hours every day of the week.
Train at your own pace. Your instructor adapts each lesson to your progress instead of forcing a fixed syllabus calendar.
Start in a Cessna 162 or Piper Warrior, then step up to the Diamond DA20, the complex Piper Arrow, the twin Seminole or a Turbo Cirrus SR22.
Brentwood students who plan to fly for travel often choose the Cirrus SR22 Turbo, with its glass cockpit and CAPS whole-airframe parachute.
Our FAA-approved Redbird MCX lets you practice procedures and instrument skills on days when the marine layer settles over the Westside.
Spread the cost through Stratus Financial with terms up to 15 years, or ask about our in-house payment plans.
Your discovery flight starts at Van Nuys, and on a clear day the Westside unfolds below you. Look south along the Sepulveda Pass and you can pick out the Getty Center perched on its hilltop above the 405, the Skirball Cultural Center tucked into the slope below it, and the green ridgelines of Mandeville and Sullivan Canyons running down toward Brentwood. Beyond them, the coral-tree median of San Vicente Boulevard leads toward the Pacific. Your instructor plans the route with you on the ground, and you take the controls once we are airborne.
Whether you want to fly yourself to a weekend in Santa Barbara or build a career in the right seat of an airliner, every program is taught one on one, close to home.
The foundation for every pilot. Fly with friends and family and explore California from above.
Learn to fly by reference to instruments so June gloom and low clouds do not keep you on the ground.
Turn flying into a profession with advanced maneuvers, complex aircraft time and commercial standards.
Zero to airline in one structured path for $84,000 (regularly $89,000, with a $5,000 promotion), with financing options for career changers.
Brentwood teens can start building real flight time and confidence long before college.
Teach others to fly, and build hours toward an airline career while you do it.
From Brentwood, the drive to Van Nuys Airport is one of the simplest in Los Angeles. Hop on the 405 north at Sunset Boulevard, climb through the Sepulveda Pass past the Getty Center, and continue into the Valley. Exit at Sherman Way or Roscoe Boulevard and head west to Balboa Boulevard. We are at 7900 Balboa Blvd, Main Terminal, Van Nuys, CA 91406, about 11 miles in a straight line from Brentwood.
Just east of Brentwood, UCLA students and Westwood residents take the same quick 405 run to Van Nuys.
Beach cities pilots train with us at KVNY and still make it home for sunset on the bluffs.
Directly over the pass from Brentwood, Encino sits only a few miles from our terminal.
Your first lesson is just over the hill. Call us, and we will help you pick the right aircraft and the right program for your goals.
Real students, real first flights, real ratings — straight from Google and Yelp.
The fastest way to know if the left seat is for you is to stand on the flight line. Book a free consultation — or reach us whichever way you like.
Tour the school, meet your instructors, sit in the cockpit, and leave with a personal training plan and exact pricing. Your Discovery Flight fee is credited toward training when you enroll within 24 hours.
One minute, a few details, fast answers from a real person on our team.
