(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
Calabasas already lives close to the good stuff — the Santa Monica Mountains on one side, Malibu just over the ridge. From the cockpit of a training airplane at Van Nuys, all of it becomes your backyard, coastline included.
About twenty minutes from Calabasas, Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) is one of the busiest general-aviation airports in the world — and the gateway to some of the most beautiful flying in the country. Climb out and the Santa Monica Mountains fall away beneath you, with the Malibu coast glittering just past the ridgeline.
It is the kind of scenery people travel across the world to see. For Calabasas, it is a short drive and a takeoff away.
Some of our favorite flights are surprises. Rakkad booked a last-minute flight to surprise his wife, who was nervous about flying — and wrote that our instructor “knew how to make her enjoy her first flight.” That is the whole idea: even nervous first-timers leave grinning.
Whether it is a celebration, a bucket-list day, or the first step toward a certificate, we make it effortless and unforgettable.
Every lesson is one-on-one with an FAA-certified flight instructor who flies our aircraft daily — not a rotating cast of strangers. They are calm, patient, and genuinely good at turning a nervous first-timer into a confident pilot, which is exactly why our reviews mention them by name again and again.
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.
