Helicopter Transfer Burbank to Bakersfield

One of the shortest sectors on the network, Burbank to Bakersfield spans just 87 nautical miles, a flight of roughly fifteen minutes from Hollywood Burbank Airport, long favoured by entertainment industry travellers, to Meadows Field in the Central Valley. Given the brevity of this hop, a Very Light Jet such as the Phenom 100, a Turboprop like the Pilatus PC-12, or even a helicopter such as the Airbus H130 all represent practical options, with the choice generally coming down to onward schedule and group size rather than range requirements. Burbank’s proximity to the film and television studios of the San Fernando Valley gives the departure a distinctly entertainment-industry character. Arrival at Meadows Field brings travellers into a starkly different California, one built on oil extraction and extensive agriculture rather than film production, with almond and citrus orchards stretching toward the southern Sierra Nevada. Bakersfield’s own cultural claim to fame, the Bakersfield Sound associated with Buck Owens, offers Hollywood a curious echo of its own influence on American popular culture. Given the flight time of just a quarter of an hour, this sector functions essentially as a shuttle, ideal for production crews, location scouts and executives moving equipment or personnel between Los Angeles’s entertainment hub and Central Valley filming locations, oilfield operations or agricultural business, as well as private travellers seeking the fastest possible link between the two. Studio productions filming on location in Kern County frequently rely on this corridor to move crew and equipment quickly, making it one of the more heavily used short hops on the network.