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KL45 ·
Bakersfield Municipal Airport
35.32480°N
-118.99600°W
ARR / DAY
5
▼
29.2%
DEP / DAY
7
▼
27.1%
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 5 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.
Safety incidents
Last 7 days · 0 total
Current weather
From KBFL, 8 mi away (KL45 does not publish METAR)
Temp
99°F
Wind
8 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
Runways
1 installed
16/34
4,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED
Runway intelligence
Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days
34
64% of ops
288 land · 257 TO
16
36% of ops
163 land · 60 TO
Runway 34 carries 64% of operations (288 landings, 257 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 36%.
Approach quality
Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates
34
288 landings
UA 5%
16
163 landings
UA 22%
Approaches to 34 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (15 UA events from 288 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
16.8
flights/day · 505 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 5pm · 3pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
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
Pilot & community notes
1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)
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Pilot & community notes
1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)
WR
wrh3
5/12/2012
on the north end of the field with big apron for airplane parking
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