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Last heard Saturday at 6:16 pm, at -225 feet at Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County. 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 Saturday at 6:11 pm

To FCIRichmond Exec/Chesterfield County, Richmond, VA Saturday at 6:16 pm

Length: 5 min
Distance: 9 nm (10 miles)
Top altitude: 750 ft
Fastest: 116 knots (133 mph)
Positions heard: 4

The latest flight recorded. Pick another in the list below. Times are local to where the aircraft was.

Line colour: altitude Low 10,000 ft 25,000 ft 40,000 ft Start End

Altitude and speed through the flight

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Flights in the last 14 days

When	From	To	Length	Distance	Top altitude	Fastest
Saturday at 6:11 pm to 6:16 pm	in the air when first heard	Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County FCI	5 min	9 nm	750 ft	116 kt
Saturday at 5:22 pm to 5:32 pm	in the air when first heard	still in the air, or out of the network's hearing	10 min	16 nm	725 ft	107 kt
Saturday at 1:25 pm to 1:31 pm	in the air when first heard	Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County FCI	6 min	11 nm	850 ft	108 kt
Saturday at 11:43 am to 12:01 pm	Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County FCI	still in the air, or out of the network's hearing	18 min	33 nm	825 ft	125 kt
October 29 at 6:58 pm to 7:26 pm	in the air when first heard	still in the air, or out of the network's hearing	28 min	54 nm	1,250 ft	117 kt
October 29 at 6:03 pm to 6:31 pm	in the air when first heard	still in the air, or out of the network's hearing	28 min	18 nm	1,500 ft	123 kt
October 28 at 7:49 pm to 10:25 pm	Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County FCI	Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County FCI	2 h 36 min	82 nm	825 ft	105 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: Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, built 2025
Kind: Helicopter, 8 seats
Operator: Commonwealth of Virginia
Registered in: North Chesterfield, VA
Transponder code: A6AFF0

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