(818) 399-9905 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
Glendale was once the takeoff point for all of Los Angeles — Lindbergh and Earhart flew from Grand Central Air Terminal on Sonora Avenue. That runway is gone, but yours is 20 minutes away at Van Nuys, where LA Flight School keeps the city's flying tradition alive.
From a first taste of flight to a full airline career, each track departs Van Nuys — an easy hop from Brand Boulevard.
From $229 — sixty-plus minutes at the controls with an FAA-certified instructor, over the city you know. Take the flight.
One instructor, one syllabus, $10,900 — the certificate that starts everything. How it works.
Commercial, instrument, multi-engine and CFI in one $89,000 pipeline to the flight deck. Trace the route.
From Brand or Central, take the 134 west, merge onto the 170 north for one exit, and come off at Sherman Way westbound; Balboa Boulevard and our front door at 7900 Balboa Blvd., Suite D3 are ten minutes further on. Call it 20 minutes total from the Americana. Montrose and La Crescenta drivers can drop down the 210 to the 118 and arrive in about the same time. Parking is free on site.
Before LAX mattered, Glendale's Grand Central Air Terminal was the region's front door to the sky — the field where transcontinental airline service to Los Angeles began. The terminal building still stands on Disney's creative campus, but the city's pilots have long since migrated a few miles west to Van Nuys.
Training there today has a fitting sense of scale: KVNY handles more general-aviation traffic than almost any airport on earth, and your early lessons will carry you over the Verdugo Mountains, Griffith Park and the neighborhoods between — the same skyline those 1930s airline passengers watched out their windows.
Also serving nearby Burbank, North Hollywood and Studio City.
Grand Central's pilots would have loved a school like this twenty minutes from Brand. You actually have one.
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.
