VAR497 is operated by WESTWIND SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS PHOENIX LLC DBA, UNITED AVIATE AC between Phoenix Goodyear Airport (KGYR) and Buckeye Municipal Airport (KBXK). The flight is most often flown by a CIRRUS Cirrus SR-20. Typical block time is 1h 2m. SkyMeter has observed 321 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
321
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
1h 2m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 8/17/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
55 / 1
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
4.7%
15 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
16
avg 1h 19m · Phoenix Goodyear → Buckeye
9
avg 50m · Buckeye → Phoenix Goodyear
5
avg 1h 25m · Casa Grande → Phoenix Goodyear
4
avg 33m · Mobile → Phoenix Goodyear
4
avg 1h 28m · Phoenix Goodyear → Casa Grande
4
avg 1h 41m · Phoenix Goodyear → Gila Bend
3
avg 36m · Phoenix Deer Valley → Phoenix Goodyear
3
avg 53m · Phoenix Goodyear → Mobile
3
avg 1h 35m · Phoenix Goodyear → Scottsdale
3
avg 58m · La Paz Regional Hospital Heliport → Phoenix Goodyear

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
15
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 VAR497

30
8/16/2026
1h 22m
△ Low approach-stability score
8/16/2026
1h 48m
△ Low approach-stability score
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