(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
Panorama City was built as a planned community for working families, and our flight school near Panorama City is built for the same kind of drive: practical, focused and close to home. We train at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), about 3 miles west, with lessons from 9 AM to 9 PM every day.
Panorama City has always been about building something. Developers Fritz Burns and Henry J. Kaiser laid it out in the late 1940s as one of the first master-planned suburbs in the San Fernando Valley, and generations of families have since made it one of the Valley's most diverse neighborhoods, with strong Latino and Filipino communities and busy commercial strips along Van Nuys Blvd. That spirit of hard work fits flight training perfectly. Earning a pilot certificate is a step-by-step project, and it rewards the same approach: steady lessons, real goals and a clear plan.
For plenty of people in Panorama City, flying is a career plan, not a hobby. Some want to fly for the airlines, some want a commercial certificate to work as charter or tour pilots, and some want to become instructors and teach. Others are parents giving a teenager a head start. Wherever you begin, the airport is close enough that you can fly before work, after school or on a weekend afternoon without losing half the day to the drive.
Roscoe Blvd runs west from Panorama City right to the north edge of Van Nuys Airport, about 3 miles away.
From your first solo to the commercial certificate and CFI, the whole path to a paid flying job happens at one airport.
Stratus Financial offers terms up to 15 years, and we also offer in-house payment plans to spread out the cost.
Train in the Cessna 162, Piper Warrior and Diamond DA20, then step up to the Piper Arrow, Piper Seminole and Cirrus SR22 Turbo.
Our Redbird MCX full-motion simulator is FAA-approved, so you can sharpen procedures on the ground and save airplane time.
Open 9 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week, so lessons fit around shifts, school and family.
On your discovery flight you take off from KVNY and the whole east Valley opens up in front of you. Panorama City is easy to find: look for Van Nuys Blvd running north through the heart of the neighborhood, the Panorama Mall near Roscoe Blvd and the large Kaiser Permanente medical campus. Just to the south sits the site of the old General Motors assembly plant, now The Plant shopping center. Beyond that, the Hansen Dam basin, the Verdugo Mountains and the San Gabriels frame the horizon. You fly the airplane yourself, with your instructor right beside you.
Whatever your goal, there is a program for it. Each one is taught from Van Nuys Airport, and your instructor will help you choose the right starting point.
Your first certificate: fly with friends and family, day or night, anywhere in the United States.
Fly through clouds and low ceilings with confidence, a must for any serious pilot in Southern California.
Get paid to fly. The commercial certificate includes complex-aircraft training in our Piper Arrow.
Zero to airline for $84,000 (regularly $89,000, with a $5,000 promotion), with financing available. A clear, structured route to the flight deck.
Teens from Panorama City high schools can start logging real flight time and build a strong head start.
Earn your CFI, teach new students and build flight hours while earning an income.
Our school is about 3 miles west of Panorama City. The simplest route is Roscoe Blvd: head west, cross the 405, and turn south on Balboa Blvd at the airport's northwest corner. From the north end of the neighborhood, take Woodman Ave or Van Nuys Blvd down to Roscoe first. Look for 7900 Balboa Blvd, Main Terminal, Van Nuys, CA 91406.
Our neighbor across the 405, about 2 miles from KVNY on the airport's north side.
The airport's own neighborhood, just south of Panorama City along Van Nuys Blvd.
Home to the historic San Fernando Mission, about 4 miles north of the airport.
Your flight training starts with one phone call. Tell us your goals and we will help you plan a first lesson at Van Nuys Airport, just west of Panorama City.
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.
