N253TA is operated by TALON AIR SERVICE INC between Drift River Airport (3AK5) and Soldotna Airport (PASX). The flight is most often flown by a CESSNA Cessna 208 Caravan 1. Typical block time is 0h 35m. SkyMeter has observed 714 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
714
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
35m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
06/01/2025 → 08/20/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
28 / 1
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
20.6%
147 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
193
avg 23m · Drift River → Soldotna
L85 PASX
64
avg 1h 50m · Mackeys Lakes Seaplane Base → Soldotna
30
avg 23m · Trading Bay Production → Soldotna
14
avg 18m · Redoubt View Seaplane Base → Soldotna
L85 PAEN
12
avg 2h 13m · Mackeys Lakes Seaplane Base → Kenai
8
avg 19m · Redoubt View Seaplane Base → Kenai
8
avg 27m · Drift River → Kenai
L85 AA16
5
avg 1h 5m · Mackeys Lakes Seaplane Base → Treasure Chest
4
avg 23m · Drift River → Treasure Chest
3
avg 1h 25m · Trading Bay Production → Kenai

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
147
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 N253TA

30
08/20/2026
17m
△ Low approach-stability score
08/19/2026
11m
△ Low approach-stability score
08/18/2026
26m
△ Low approach-stability score
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Tracked: 90-day window