N917NA is operated by NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION between Acadiana Regional Airport (KARA) and Ellington Airport (KEFD). The flight is most often flown by a NORTHROP Northrop T-38 Talon. Typical block time is 1h 6m. SkyMeter has observed 23 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
23
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
1h 6m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
6/10/2025 → 7/20/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
14 / 1
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
17.4%
4 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
1
avg 33m · Ellington → Southland Field
1
avg 1h 11m · Acadiana → Ellington
1
avg 41m · Gulf Coast Community Hosp-Emerg Heliport → Ellington
1
avg 1h 36m · Ellington → Patrick Air Force Base
1
avg 23m · Chennault → Ellington
1
avg 1h 9m · Ellington → Milton
1
avg 1h 23m · Ellington → Acadiana
1
avg 55m · Ellington → Poplarville Pearl River County
1
avg 1h 4m · Stennis → Ellington
1
avg 1h 6m · Ellington → Stennis

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
4
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 N917NA

30
7/17/2026
47m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/10/2026
41m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/9/2026
1h 8m
△ Low approach-stability score
7/6/2026
1h 4m
△ Low approach-stability score
5/15/2026
54m
△ Low approach-stability score
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Tracked: 90-day window