BOLT56 is operated by UNITED STATES AIR FORCE between City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (KCOS) and USAF Academy Airfield (KAFF). The flight is most often flown by a CESSNA Cessna Skyhawk 172/Cutlass. Typical block time is 0h 43m. SkyMeter has observed 69 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
69
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
43m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
6/2/2025 → 8/10/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
19 / 1
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
8.7%
6 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
6
avg 32m · City of Colorado Springs → USAF Academy Airfield
3
avg 15m · USAF Academy Airfield → Meadow Lake
2
avg 52m · USAF Academy Airfield → Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field
2
avg 10m · USAF Academy Airfield → City of Colorado Springs
2
avg 30m · Aero Bear Field → USAF Academy Airfield
2
avg 9m · Cheyenne Mountain Heliport → USAF Academy Airfield
1
avg 51m · USAF Academy Airfield → Salida Airport Harriett Alexander Field
1
avg 10m · Lockheed Martin Cmd & Cntrl Sys Heliport → Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field
1
avg 34m · Peyton Heliport → USAF Academy Airfield
1
avg 1h 20m · Lockheed Martin Cmd & Cntrl Sys Heliport → USAF Academy Airfield

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
6
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of BOLT56

30
7/30/2026
40m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/28/2026
29m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/24/2026
1h 23m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/22/2026
1h 1m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/22/2026
22m
△ Low approach-stability score
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