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N3985

Last heard today at 12:05 pm, at 125 feet at Santa Barbara Municipal. Nothing newer has come from the network since; it may have landed out of the receivers' hearing.

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From —in the air when first heard Today at 11:54 am
To SBASanta Barbara Municipal, Santa Barbara, CA Today at 12:05 pm
Length
10 min
Distance
17 nm (20 miles)
Top altitude
1,275 ft
Fastest
110 knots (127 mph)
Positions heard
5

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Altitude and speed through the flight

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Flights in the last 14 days

WhenFromToLengthDistanceTop altitudeFastest
Today at 11:54 am to 12:05 pm in the air when first heard Santa Barbara Municipal SBA 10 min 17 nm 1,275 ft 110 kt

Show the last 56 days · A flight is a run of positions with no gap longer than twenty minutes; an airport is named when the aircraft was low and within five miles of it at that end.

Positions from the adsb.lol community network (open data). A distance is the sum of the straight lines between the positions heard, so it is a little short of the true track. Positions are kept in full for 7 days and at one point every five minutes after that, for 180 days. Map: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors. For understanding where an aircraft went, not for flying.

The aircraft

Aircraft
Cessna 172P, built 1982
Kind
Single-engine piston aircraft, 4 seats
Operator
Nighthawk N8231G LLC
Registered in
Pompano Beach, FL
Transponder code
A4A388

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