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N55AU

Last heard Sunday at 4:43 pm, at 625 feet at Petaluma Municipal. Nothing newer has come from the network since; it may have landed out of the receivers' hearing.

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From O22Columbia Airport, Columbia, CA Sunday at 4:02 pm

To O69Petaluma Municipal, Petaluma, CA Sunday at 4:43 pm

Length: 40 min
Distance: 102 nm (117 miles)
Top altitude: 6,425 ft
Fastest: 171 knots (197 mph)
Positions heard: 20

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
Sunday at 4:02 pm to 4:43 pm	Columbia Airport O22	Petaluma Municipal O69	40 min	102 nm	6,425 ft	171 kt
Sunday at 2:13 pm to 3:00 pm	Petaluma Municipal O69	Columbia Airport O22	46 min	113 nm	5,400 ft	166 kt
Thursday at 7:49 pm to 8:03 pm	Buchanan Field CCR	Petaluma Municipal O69	14 min	29 nm	2,350 ft	140 kt
Thursday at 5:54 pm to 6:08 pm	Petaluma Municipal O69	Buchanan Field CCR	14 min	31 nm	3,375 ft	167 kt
November 2 at 3:01 pm to 3:40 pm	Columbia Airport O22	Petaluma Municipal O69	38 min	103 nm	6,350 ft	181 kt
November 1 at 9:56 am to 10:35 am	in the air when first heard	Columbia Airport O22	38 min	101 nm	5,525 ft	162 kt
October 29 at 7:16 pm to 7:32 pm	Buchanan Field CCR	Petaluma Municipal O69	16 min	30 nm	3,475 ft	131 kt
October 29 at 5:40 pm to 5:56 pm	Petaluma Municipal O69	Buchanan Field CCR	16 min	28 nm	2,825 ft	168 kt
October 29 at 4:04 pm to 5:01 pm	Petaluma Municipal O69	Petaluma Municipal O69	57 min	86 nm	4,200 ft	165 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: Ballard James R VANS RV-6A, built 2003
Kind: Single-engine piston aircraft, 2 seats
Owner: A private owner (not named here)
Registered in: Petaluma, CA
Transponder code: A6FD25

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