Another great video, thanks for sharing your experience. I hope to check a few of these out!

AWESOME VIDEO....another one of my favorite airports is Perris , good food and a big skydiving facility

Awesome video and love hearing about some of the lesser known gems in your neck of the woods!

Another very nice video, thanks! Not only do the airports look gorgeous, to non-locals like me their names sound exotic and make it all seem even more adventurous.

Love this video!!!!!! You are the best!! :D

Great video! Did my first solo cross-countries to Santa Ynez from Hawthorne - wonderful airport and area. I’ll be sure to check out Kern Valley, seems like a great place.

I fly out of KSBA with my flight school and love to fly to these airports, still looking to fly into Catalina seems like great fun

Excellent list! Been to a few of them myself and agree with your assessment. Safe travels everyone!

I’m down the street from WHP and a huge Grumman fan. I appreciate your videos! Keep em comin.

Great video. Southern California sure has some great flying opportunities. I haven't been to any of these strips yet but I plan to hit them all.. I did go to Half Moon Bay up North with a buddy and thought I had died and gone to heaven. Short walk to great seafood and a Bay tour to boot. Shelter Cove is another I'd like to hit. Thanks for sharing.

great picks!!! :)

Good job!

Good video. Straight to the point. No music or BS. 100% agree with all your selections except for me personally I'd swap Chino for Camarillo. Usually a fair amount of warbirds plus the infamous Flo's for breakfast....where many a pilot has gone to clog their arteries.

nice video, I fly out of VNY & been to all except Kern Valley, love your Tiger, fun plane to fly...wheels up!

Badass list

Awesome video! Also, some other airports to consider (Some aren't in local SoCal region): Agua Caliente, Mammoth Lakes, and French Valley.

As a Santa Ynez resident flying out of KIZA and KSBA, awesome to see it make the list. Have made many trims to CMA and Oceano.

Very well done! Honestly, the videos you post, I hit the "like" button first and then watch it!

Great !!! I will land on these in my flight simulator ...

KCRQ....!!! Lol great content

instant click when i see the new video icon. pleasurable cinematography that captures the pleasures of GA. you're about to explode Wolfi.

Nice video put together very well and without obnoxious music. A few airports in my logbook are Borrego Springs, Chiriaco Summit, Chino, Santa Monica, and Catalina being my favorite. Used to be based out of Montgomery Field.

Consider Half moon bay excellent restaurants, camping on field coffee shop on the field. Great view on landing. Also Columbia airport Camping on field and easy walk to great restaurants.

I live in Cal City l79, work at Edwards, have been to Kernville and right past the Kern Valley Airport. West Coast Skydive at Camarillo Airport also. This looked very familiar and by the way excellent video production, well-balanced not too much of anything background music everything, I'm a photographer not a video guy, this was not boring. Possible Tehachapi, great getaway cool in the summer 4300 elevation.

Cool, we're going to add some of these as way-points in ForeFlight, when we ever get to our 48 (49) state tour!

I have to check out Kern

Just placed an order for a new plane - based out of LA - and can’t wait to get it up into the air to check out the interesting airports around here. Epic video! Going to check out all six of these!

Wow, that looked awesome, so much to see and so adventurous! We don't have such breath taking sightings like that overhere. Overhere it's just flat. Cheers from The Netherlands ;-)

Been to 4 out of 6... Big Bear and Santa Ynez are on my list!

Dope video. Also consider L09 Stovepipe Wells. Fun flight: circument the restricted airspace and sooooo vast and beautiful out there over the paniment valley.

Great list of airports! We’ve been to all six of them. My wife and I had fun trying to list them before we watched the video. We got five out of six. We didn’t think of Santa Ynez although once you said it we both said “oh yeah! That one deserves to be in the top six. One of the ones that we thought would’ve been there but maybe number seven is San Luis Obispo. They have an excellent restaurant on the field and a couple within walking distance. Also if you get the crew car there’s lots of restaurants in town that you could easily eat at and still turn the car in within the allotted two hours.

Another great video Wolfi. Honestly though, I don't know how you made a top 6 list ... there's just so many good ones and every airport is so unique, my list would be top 50! As a former CMA airport local, can definitely back you up on that one though ... I haven't found a better airport cafe yet than the Waypoint.

Very well done. Oceano and Kern Valley on my list to hit soon. I would throw in French Valley as well for a decent Cafe but better yet, great variety of local wineries. Grab a rental car and stay a night!

Great video! Really like your aerial views of the airport. Did you use the basic google earth or earth studio?

I like the Corona airport, it’s been 40 years since I’ve been there with my college Mt SAC, but it was nice

You are so good at this. I love your style.

Very surprised. I live about 50 miles East of Kernville, in the desert and just got started with my ground school. I was not expecting your number 1 pick. I have driven through there hundreds of times but will have to fly out there once I get through training.

The diner at the airport has some of the best burgers you'll ever find.

Excellent list! Just add F70, L70, L88 and UDD and you have an excellent top-10.

So-Cal ?......more like So Cool 😎

great video. amazing. How long does it take you to make a video like this? It must take at least a day...

Big Bear now has free shuttle that has a stop at the Airport! So much more convenient now for pilots.

Agua Caliente is pretty cool if you like desert hiking and hot springs. Ocotillo Wells has a dirt strip. I think it's still possible to rent dirt bikes across the street from the air strip. Bring some guns and you can ride to a shooting area to the south. Perris is great for sky diving.

Im doing flight training out of Oxnard, right next to Camarillo. Its always been so busy that its hard to do touch and gos.

F70 ( French Valley) or KAPV ( Apple Valley) didn’t make the list. Although been to 5 of your 6 and can agree with all your choices. Haven’t been to Kern though, might have to check that one out.

Awesome video! I was pleasantly surprised to see you had Oceano/Pismo Beach on your list. Back in 1988, while I was based at NAS Moffett Field in Northern California, I rented a Navy Flying Club C-172P and flew my newlywed wife and my sister in-law down to Oceano for a weekend camping trip. We packed a tent, some sleeping bags, and a cooler full of food and drink to last us a few days. What fun that was! It's a four hour drive by car, but only an hour and twenty minute flight by GA. It was in mid-summer and, yes, we had to deal with the marine layer just as you mentioned. The fog bank was sitting just off the coast when we had arrived, but we were able to sneak under the ceiling and land VFR about 30 minutes before it moved in. Once it did, we were committed to staying. We pitched a tent at the airport camp ground and had some BBQ for dinner using one of the outdoor grills. In the evening, we took a stroll down Pismo Beach and joined some others relaxing with a huge beach bonfire. The next day, we walked to the boardwalk to mingle with the tourists, visited the local shops and got our feet wet walking along the shoreline. Obviously, there were no Uber or Lyft services back then, but a Yellow Cab ride was just a pay phone call away to get us back to the airport, (no cell phones either.. oh the agony). The takeoff out of Oceano is a thrill. Climb straight out over the beach, head over the water about a 1/4 mile, then turn northbound towards the point, then eastbound over towards San Luis Obispo. The scenery there is gorgeous. One of my favorite places to fly. Thanks for bringing back some fond memories! Fly safe and fly often!

Thanks for the #1 shout out for my parents airport (Kern Valley Airport). My parents are ready to retire so the airport is for sale in case anyone is interested! ☺️

For Northern California don't forget Shelter cove, half Moon Bay, Quincy, Truckee, South lake Tahoe, Colombia, San Carlos, Auburn.

Theres a bush trip in MSFS2020 that explores Kern Valley

Santa Paula, L77, Oceanside.

You might also make a list of small SoCal airports best avoided ("10 Worst").

And Lego Land, Disney, Universal Studios are also considerations if you want something more than just an airport fly-in. Tons and tons of stuff in Los Angeles and San Diego.

How close to lax are these airports

Can you do another list for Northern CA? Thanks

Does Santa Ynez airport still have $5 a day car rentals to go visit Solvang?

Santa Paula Flabob

YOU LEFT OUT GIANT ROCK AIRPORT IN LANDERS CA

I got to fly my Tiger again, after selling it, on a visit to CA. We flew with it’s new owner to Borego Springs for lunch. Should have never sold that plane...

I am surprised Santa Paula KSZP isn't on the list.

KSMO before it, oh so sadly, closes.

I dont ze lax on the map

Small airports ..... small for US standards! For an European are huge! 😂😂😂😂

Santa Monica Tehachapi Chino / Planes of Fame I also might want to add an airport from the desert and San Diego areas just to cover the whole region.