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How Many Flights In One Day? We Tracked A Wideroe Dash 8 For 24 Hours
We tracked a Widerøe Dash 8 through 17 sectors in one day. The shortest flight lasted seven minutes.
A Widerøe Bombardier Dash 8-100, registered LN-WIE, operated a dense 24-hour sequence across Arctic Norway, performing 17 sectors between eight airports.
The route started in Tromsø (TOS) at 04:12 UTC and concluded in Lakselv (LKL) at 21:28, with the aircraft spending 8 hours and 34 minutes airborne during an elapsed day of 17 hours and 16 minutes.
Flight segments varied in duration, with the shortest being the leg from Båtsfjord (BJF) to Vadsø (VDS) at seven minutes, and five other sectors lasting under 20 minutes.
During the operation, the Dash 8-100 returned to Hammerfest (HFT) five times, indicating a tightly packed schedule with multiple reassignment points across the circumpolar route.
The report attributes the data to Brandon Shaw, a private pilot and flight-simulation enthusiast who provides aviation insights, without detailing causes, injuries, aircraft anomalies, or outcomes beyond the recorded timings.