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Bakersfield Municipal Airport

35.32480°N
-118.99600°W
ARR / DAY
7
12.3%
DEP / DAY
8
39.6%

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 7 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KVIS, 72 mi away (KL45 does not publish METAR)

just now
Temp
91°F
Wind
3 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KVIS 312356Z AUTO 21003KT 10SM CLR 33/09 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP091 T03330089 10344 20256 56020 $

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
66% of ops
238 land · 206 TO
16
34% of ops
123 land · 47 TO
Runway 34 carries 66% of operations (238 landings, 206 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

34 238 landings
UA 11%
16 123 landings
UA 12%
Approaches to 34 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (26 UA events from 238 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
16.9
flights/day · 508 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 6pm · 5pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 16.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (16.6 vs 17.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 408 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
05/12/2012
great restaurant
on the north end of the field with big apron for airplane parking
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