Flight Status & Tracker

N81497

SKYWARD AIR INC · SMO → VNY · Last tracked Oct 25, 2026

N81497 is a flight number operated by SKYWARD AIR INC between Santa Monica Municipal Airport (KSMO) and Van Nuys Airport (KVNY). SkyMeter last tracked N81497 on October 25, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a PIPER Piper Cherokee. Typical block time is 0h 41m. SkyMeter has observed 84 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
84
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
41m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/25/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
32 / 1
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
8.3%
7 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
4
avg 54m · Santa Monica → Van Nuys
4
avg 10m · Van Nuys → Santa Monica
3
avg 46m · Santa Monica → Whiteman
2
avg 38m · Perris Valley → Santa Monica
2
avg 1h 16m · Santa Monica → Santa Barbara
1
avg 43m · Santa Monica → French Valley
avg 29m · Quartz Hill → Camarillo
74L → KSMO
1
avg 53m · Malibu Administrative Center Heliport → Santa Monica
1
avg 14m · Santa Monica → Bob Hope
1
avg 41m · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Heliport → Santa Monica

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
7
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 N81497

30
10/25/2026
14m
△ Low approach-stability score
9/24/2026
23m
△ Low approach-stability score
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