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Bakersfield Municipal Airport

35.32480°N
-118.99600°W
ARR / DAY
8
57.1%
DEP / DAY
11
41.5%

Bakersfield Municipal Airport (KL45) is a small general aviation airport located in Bakersfield, CA. It features 1 runway measuring 4,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KBFL, 8 mi away (KL45 does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
85°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KBFL 201654Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 29/12 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP138 T02940117

Runways

1 installed

4,000 FT MAX
16/34
4,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

34
69% of ops
146 land · 114 TO
16
31% of ops
66 land · 34 TO
Runway 34 carries 69% of operations (146 landings, 114 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 31%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

34 146 landings
UA 10%
16 66 landings
UA 12%
Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (15 UA events from 146 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
16.1
flights/day · 482 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 4pm · 3pm
Day vs night
57%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 16.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (15.8 vs 17.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (40% of 400 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
APCH 126.450
APCH 270.300
UNICOM 122.800
BAKERSFI 127.100
OTHER 127.100
BAKERSFI 317.700
OTHER 317.700
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
14° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
wrh3
5/12/2012
great restaurant
on the north end of the field with big apron for airplane parking
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