(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
Sun Valley lives under some of the busiest skies in the Valley, with Hollywood Burbank Airport on one side and Whiteman Airport just up the road. If you have spent years watching those airplanes, our flight school near Sun Valley is the place to finally fly one. We train at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), about 7 miles west.
Sun Valley is a working neighborhood. Its streets mix family homes with machine shops, production facilities, recycling yards and warehouses, and many residents work in trades, logistics and the entertainment support businesses that cluster around Burbank. Pockets like the historic river-rock cottages of Stonehurst and the horse properties near the Verdugo foothills give it a character all its own. People here tend to be hands-on, and flying rewards exactly that: you learn by doing, with an instructor guiding every step.
Living this close to Hollywood Burbank Airport also gives Sun Valley students a head start. You have heard the airliners on approach, and you may already know where the arrivals line up. In training you will learn how that busy Class C airspace works and how to fly around it safely, along with radio calls, navigation and the airspace around Van Nuys. It is the kind of real-world experience that helps when you move on to instrument, commercial or airline training.
Roscoe Blvd runs west from Sun Valley straight to the north edge of Van Nuys Airport, about 7 miles away.
Learn to work with towers and busy airspace from your very first lessons, a skill every professional pilot needs.
You take the controls on your discovery flight, and every lesson after that builds real stick-and-rudder skill.
Train in the Cessna 162, Piper Warrior or Diamond DA20, then advance to the Piper Arrow, Seminole twin and Cirrus SR22 Turbo.
Our FAA-approved Redbird MCX full-motion simulator lets you practice procedures and instrument skills on the ground.
Open 9 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week, so lessons fit around shift work and long workdays.
Your discovery flight departs Van Nuys and the east Valley stretches out ahead. Sun Valley is easy to spot from the air: the 5 and the 170 cut through it, Hollywood Burbank Airport's runways sit just to the southeast and the Verdugo Mountains rise along its eastern edge. To the north, the broad Tujunga Wash leads up toward the Hansen Dam basin and Whiteman Airport, with the San Gabriel Mountains behind. Your instructor will point out how the different airports and their airspace fit together while you handle the controls.
Sun Valley students can follow any of these programs at Van Nuys Airport, from a first certificate to a professional career. Your instructor helps plan each stage.
Your first pilot certificate: carry passengers and fly anywhere in the United States, day or night.
Fly in clouds and low visibility with precision, and gain confidence in the busy airspace around Burbank.
Earn the certificate that lets you fly for hire, including complex-aircraft time in our Piper Arrow.
Zero to airline for $84,000 (regularly $89,000, with a $5,000 promotion), with financing available. A complete roadmap from first lesson to the flight deck.
High schoolers from Sun Valley can begin early, logging real flight time with patient instructors.
Become a flight instructor, share what you have learned and build hours while being paid to fly.
Van Nuys Airport is about 7 miles west of Sun Valley. The easiest route is Roscoe Blvd: head west across the Valley, through Panorama City and over the 405, then turn south on Balboa Blvd at the airport's northwest corner. Our school is at 7900 Balboa Blvd, Main Terminal, Van Nuys, CA 91406. Call (818) 290-8249 if you have questions about the route.
Sun Valley's neighbor to the southeast, about 10 miles from KVNY and right beside Hollywood Burbank Airport.
Just south of Sun Valley, with an easy route west to Van Nuys Airport.
You have watched the airplanes over Sun Valley long enough. Give us a call and we will set up your first flight at Van Nuys Airport.
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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.
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