Pouring from a whiskey library exceeding 1,200 bottles since 1947, Aero Club Bar operates from 3365 India St in Hillcrest's 92103 ZIP code as one of San Diego's oldest continuously running bars. The 1,200-bottle whiskey library spans bourbon, rye, Scotch, Irish, and Japanese selections dating to the bar's 1947 founding, a spirits depth on the same India St block as the LGBTQ-founded craft brewery at Hillcrest Brewing Company Bar & Pizzeria on University Ave. The interior preserves vintage airplane parts and post-WWII aviation memorabilia original to the building, anchored by a floor-to-ceiling back bar stacked with bourbon, scotch, and rye spanning entry-level to allocated releases. The jukebox and cash-only dive-bar format has survived every era of Hillcrest's nightlife evolution, maintaining a 1940s aviation theme on the same India St corridor as Shakespeare Pub's British pub kitchen. The bar's signature San Diego Whiskey Sour layers bourbon, egg white, house sour, cinnamon dust, and a red wine float—a five-component build that typifies the cocktail program's complexity.