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Bakersfield Municipal Airport

35.32480°N
-118.99600°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 38.0%
DEP / DAY
5
▼ 39.7%

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 4 arrivals and 5 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
81% of ops
162 land · 157 TO
16
19% of ops
38 land · 21 TO
Runway 34 carries 81% of operations (162 landings, 157 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 19%.

Approach quality

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

34 162 landings
UA 20%
16 38 landings
UA 24%
Approaches to 34 show a 20% unstable-approach rate (33 UA events from 162 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
11.5
flights/day · 344 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 11.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (11.9 vs 11.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 257 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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