Air Hollywood

The world's largest aviation film studio — where all those movie plane scenes are shot

Air Hollywood is the largest aviation film studio in the world, and the reason nearly every airplane scene in Hollywood's last forty years of movies looks the same: the same cramped cabin, the same overhead bins, the same emergency exit row. Films from Cast Away to Snakes on a Plane to Bridesmaids were shot here, using meticulously detailed mock-ups of Boeing and Airbus interiors built specifically for filming.

The facility occasionally offers public tours that let visitors walk through the sets and understand how aerial sequences are created without ever leaving the ground. The studio has also run flight-phobia therapy sessions using its realistic airplane environments. It is not a conventional tourist attraction, but for anyone curious about the filmmaking geography of the San Fernando Valley — and Santa Clarita has an extraordinary amount of it — it is a genuinely interesting stop.

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