Flight Status & Tracker

UAL1286

UNITED AIRLINES INC · SFO → DTW · Last tracked Oct 21, 2026

UAL1286 is a flight number operated by UNITED AIRLINES INC between San Francisco International Airport (KSFO) and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW). SkyMeter last tracked UAL1286 on October 20, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-800. Typical block time is 3h 19m. SkyMeter has observed 78 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
78
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
3h 19m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/21/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
11 / 5
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
2.6%
2 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

6
34
avg 4h 33m · San Francisco → Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County
14
avg 54m · California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County → San Francisco
4
avg 4h 24m · Half Moon Bay → Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County
2
avg 4h 20m · Metropolitan Oakland → Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County
1
avg 45m · George Bush Intercontinental Houston → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
1
avg 5h 7m · San Francisco → Willow Run

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
2
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 UAL1286

30
10/16/2026
4h 42m
△ Low approach-stability score
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