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Paradise Lakes Airport

7CA2 · Bakersfield, California · Kern County · map

Paradise Lakes Airport is a private airport, 20 miles southeast of Bakersfield, California, 340 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 2,700 feet of asphalt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes
FAA 7CA2
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
340 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Los Angeles sectional
Magnetic variation
14E
In the FAA's files since
October 1997

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1634N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
16/342,700 × 60 ftAsphalt
  • Runway 16: power line 40 ft high 400 ft from the end

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Bakersfield Municipal (10 nm north), Meadows Field (17 nm north), Tehachapi Municipal (24 nm east), Shafter-Minter Field (24 nm northwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Bakersfield Municipal (10 nm north), Meadows Field (17 nm north), Tehachapi Municipal (24 nm east), Shafter-Minter Field (24 nm northwest).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in California · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

  • 16/34 marked with tires.
  • Power line marked with orange balls.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Bakersfield from the FAA register

372 aircraft are registered to owners in Bakersfield, California: 260 piston singles, 30 helicopters, 22 piston twins, 22 business jets, 21 turboprops. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Kcsi Aerial Patrol INC 38Premier Aircraft Services LLC 8Best Equipment Leasing LLC 7Wonderful Orchards LLC 5Kern County Sheriffs Department 3County of Kern 3Bcww LLC 3Usda Forest Service 2Synergy Wellness Group INC 2M B Duncan INC 2

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Fuel and service companies in Bakersfield, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

  • Premier Aircraft Services LLC Premiere Aviation operates a fleet of Cessna 421C Golden Eagle aircraft based at Concord Jet Center in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering on-demand charter flights with professional pilots.

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

  • Faithful Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Lakeside, 10 miles away Faithful Flyers is a Christ-centered aviation organization based in Lakeside, California.

Charter operators and airlines based in Bakersfield:

Repair stations in Bakersfield:

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal

2015-08-22GAA15CA303 · Mitsubishi Mu 2B-25 N553T · accident · no injuries
2010-09-07WPR10CA451 · Piper Pa-28-235 N32025 · accident · no injuries

Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town
Who works here
Record
Around it

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/7CA2.json.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 28, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.