Flight Status & Tracker

FD509

ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA CENTRAL OPERATIONS · MEB → ADL · Last tracked Oct 9, 2026

FD509 is a flight number operated by ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA CENTRAL OPERATIONS between Melbourne Essendon Airport (YMEN) and Adelaide International Airport (YPAD). SkyMeter last tracked FD509 on October 9, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a PILATUS Pilatus PC-24. Typical block time is 1h 30m. SkyMeter has observed 9 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
9
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 30m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
6/6/2025 → 10/9/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
4 / 1
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
3
avg 1h 20m · Adelaide → Melbourne Essendon
3
avg 1h 24m · Melbourne Essendon → Adelaide
1
avg 1h 4m · Hobart → Melbourne Essendon
1
avg 1h 1m · Melbourne Essendon → Hobart Cambridge

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
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 FD509

30
1/2/2026
1h 14m
△ Low approach-stability score
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