Community Impact Report VERIFIED FIGURES ONLY Data snapshot: 12 JUN 2026

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FlySpaceA Community Impact Report

How FlySpaceA helps the military community fly the Space-A benefit they’ve earned.

Data through 10 September 2026 · Cumulative since launch

Colton Williams

Founder & Executive Director

Published 2026-06-14 · Updated 2026-09-11

We Help the Military Community Fly the Benefit They’ve Earned.

Space-A travel offers free seats on military aircraft to service members, retirees, veterans, and their families. We watch official AMC terminal schedules around the clock and tell you the moment a seat shows up. So the benefit actually gets used.

Flights surfaced

12,313

Space-A flights surfaced for travelers since launch

Global reach

345

flight locations connected across five command regions

Alert reliability

99.96%

of 43,137 flight alerts delivered successfully

Community

10,119·17K+

registered travelers · social followers

01 / The Community We Serve

More Than 10 Million Americans Have Earned This Benefit. Almost None Get to Use It.

Space-A has rewarded service for more than 75 years. But the information you need to use it has always been scattered, stale, and hard to trust. In a typical year, only about 1% of eligible travelers manage to fly. Closing that gap is why FlySpaceA exists.

11.5M eligible service members, retirees, veterans & families ~1% fly in a typical year

Retirees & their families 4.95M

Active component & families 2.81M

100% disabled veterans & families 2.10M

Guard & Reserve families 1.63M

Survivors & others 0.92M

Eligibility segments include sponsors and dependents · Source: FlySpaceA market research, 2026 · Typical-year participation ≈100K–194K travelers

02 / Wherever Space-A Flies

From the East Coast to the Indo-Pacific, We Help Travelers Find the Way.

Space-A moves across the globe every day. FlySpaceA maps where the flights actually go: 55 departure points and 345 flight locations, from the U.S. East Coast to Europe and the Indo-Pacific. That picture lives in your pocket, free.

Scroll the map sideways to follow a corridor

FSA / Global coverage · 90 days to 09 June 2026 · 271 flight locations · Major terminals shown · Lane weight = volume

WRI McGuire
DOV Dover
POB Pope
CHS Charleston
SUU Travis
EDF Elmendorf
HIK Hickam
UAM Andersen
DNA Kadena
OKO Yokota
SPM Spangdahlem
RMS Ramstein

Departures by Region

NORTHCOMNorth America 1,537

EUCOMEurope 1,260

INDOPACOMIndo-Pacific 561

Departures by combatant-command region, 90 days to 09 June 2026 · Dots mark major terminals among the 345 flight locations in our network · Plus AFRICOM & SOUTHCOM connections

03 / Top Corridors

Where Space-A Actually Flies.

Some routes run almost daily. Others appear once a season. In the 90 days to 09 June 2026, these were the most active corridors our travelers followed.

01 SPM to WRIEUCOMSpangdahlem to McGuire 320

02 RMS to WRIEUCOMRamstein to McGuire 135

03 HIK to SUUINDOPACOMHickam to Travis 80

04 HIK to UAMINDOPACOMHickam to Andersen 77

05 WRI to POBNORTHCOMMcGuire to Pope 72

06 CHS to RMSEUCOMCharleston to Ramstein 62

07 SUU to HIKINDOPACOMTravis to Hickam 57

08 HIK to DNAINDOPACOMHickam to Kadena 53

09 RMS to CHSEUCOMRamstein to Charleston 51

10 DOV to RMSEUCOMDover to Ramstein 51

Top 10 corridors by flight count, 90 days to 09 June 2026 · Bar length is relative to the busiest corridor

04 / Alerts That Arrive

An Alert Is Only Worth Anything if It Arrives.

Our notification system has delivered 43,137 flight alerts with a 99.96% success rate (effectively zero bounces). And because the pipeline refreshes terminal schedules every few hours, the flights you see are current, not yesterday’s news.

99.96%

Delivered

43,120 of 43,137 flight alerts

Flight alerts delivered successfully 43,120 of 43,137

Transient bounces, ever 2

Terminal schedules re-checked Multiple times daily

72-HR confirmed schedules 30-DAY projected schedules Travelers always know how firm a flight is

05 / Momentum

Military Travelers Are Finding FlySpaceA.

In seven months, the audience has grown from a few hundred to a community of thousands across the app and social channels.

Instagram followers 15,263

Nov 2025 – 22 May 2026 · from 152

Marked points: viral inflection in February, and peak growth of +6,100 followers in March.

Registered travelers 6,307

Nov 2025 – 09 Jun 2026 · from 170

The May dip is routine removal of never-verified accounts: database hygiene, not churn.

Facebook followers 1,828

Nov 2025 – 22 May 2026 · from 143

Steady month-over-month growth on a smaller base.

Each panel has its own vertical scale: compare trajectories, not heights

6,300+

registered travelers (≈480 added in the trailing week)

15,263

Instagram followers, up from 152 at launch

1,828

Facebook followers

902

active Android devices, near-zero uninstalls

View the growth data as a table

Registered travelers, Instagram followers and Facebook followers by observation date. Blank cells mean no observation was recorded on that date.
Date	Registered travelers	Instagram	Facebook
2025-11-01		152	143
2025-11-14	170
2025-11-30		320
2026-01-29	532
2026-01-31		1,054	1,075
2026-02-28		5,493
2026-03-11	1,050	6,685
2026-03-25	1,542	8,756	1,316
2026-04-01		11,747
2026-04-02	2,211
2026-04-10		13,139	1,468
2026-04-11	3,234
2026-04-17	3,874
2026-04-20	4,026
2026-04-22		14,071	1,604
2026-05-03	4,673
2026-05-07	4,339
2026-05-13	4,735		1,720
2026-05-16		15,009
2026-05-22	5,278	15,263	1,828
2026-06-03	5,889
2026-06-09	6,307

Instagram following through late May 2026. Social lines end at the last verified data point (22 May). May dip in the travelers line: routine removal of never-verified accounts. Database hygiene, not churn.

06 / The Engine Behind The Data

Real Engineering, in Service of Travelers.

Behind every flight you see is a seven-step, AI-assisted data pipeline. We receive official terminal schedules, extract the flights, enrich them with airport and route data, clean and de-duplicate, load them, reconcile against what’s already live, and archive the history. It runs continuously, so the picture stays current without anyone refreshing a PDF.

Receive

Extract

Enrich

Clean

Load

Reconcile

Some Things We Will Never Show.

FlySpaceA is built by people who served. That shapes what the tool does, and what it refuses to do.

OPSEC

No CENTCOM Flights.

Unlike others, we don’t display CENTCOM flights. Out of respect for our service members, that region stays off every map and feed we publish. If you see CENTCOM Space-A flights posted anywhere, it’s wrong.

Privacy

The Minimum Data, Nothing More.

We keep as little information as possible and treat data compliance as a standing commitment. Deletion requests are honored, every time.

Discipline

No Tail Numbers. Ever.

We never store or display tail numbers or aircraft identifiers. They’re not in our database, so they can’t leak from it.

08 / Why We Build

Built for the People Who Serve.

FlySpaceA is independent and disabled-veteran-owned. We built it out of pocket, with modern AI tooling, for one community: the service members, retirees, veterans, and families who fly Space-A.

We work closely with the Von Terra Project, a veteran-serving nonprofit, to put this capability in front of the people who earned it.

Our dream is simple: this tool in the hands of Air Mobility Command, and every service member who can use a free flight home.

Independent AI-powered Veteran-focused

Nonprofit Partner · Sponsor

The Von Terra Project Serving the veteran community, together. vonterraproject.org

09 / The Way Forward

What Comes Next.

We have a clear plan, and it keeps the community first at every step.

01

Keep the Core Free.

The features travelers rely on today stay free. Flight tracking and alerts are the benefit, and the benefit belongs to the people who earned it.
02

Launch CCaaS With Google Cloud.

We’re standing up a Contact Center as a Service built on Google Cloud: calls, texts, and chat in one place, backed by grounded AI that answers from real Space-A knowledge, not guesses. Travelers get accurate help the moment they need it, on whatever channel they’re already using.

Voice calls SMS & text Chat & messaging Grounded AI answers Human handoff
03

Get This Into Air Mobility Command.

The biggest goal: deliver this product to Air Mobility Command directly, so the right people have it. This started as a tool for the community. It should serve the people who run the system too.

10 / Start Here

Nobody Serves the Space-A Community Like FlySpaceA.

Thousands of flights surfaced. Hundreds of locations. Alerts that actually arrive. It’s free, and it’s for the people who earned it. Whether you’re flying home, flying out, or helping someone who is, start with FlySpaceA.

Track flights free

FlySpaceA aggregates publicly available USAF AMC schedule data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Government or the Department of Defense. Flight data is provided as-is; always confirm with the terminal.

How we checked this

Headline figures are cumulative from 2025-06-05 to 2026-09-10, about fifteen months of continuous operation. The regional, corridor, growth and social panels are a 2026-06-09 snapshot, and each is labelled with its own window. Flight data comes from publicly available USAF AMC schedules, and eligibility estimates come from FlySpaceA market research. Only verified figures are shown.

Updated 2026-09-11: headline figures moved from the second quarter of 2026 to data through 2026-09-10.

About the author

Colton Williams

Founder & Executive Director

A veteran, traveler, developer, storyteller, and inventor.

Read Colton’s full bio

Corrections

See something wrong? Write to contact@vonterraproject.org. We fix errors, put the date of the fix at the top, and say here what changed.

Sources

FlySpaceA. (2026). [Unpublished raw data on flights surfaced, flight alerts and registered travelers, 2025-06-05 to 2026-09-10].
FlySpaceA. (2026). [Unpublished market research on Space-A eligibility].

FlySpaceA · Community Impact Report · Data through 10 September 2026 Data basis: headline figures are cumulative from 05 JUN 2025 to 10 SEP 2026, about fifteen months of continuous operation. Regional, corridor, growth and social panels below are a 09 JUN 2026 snapshot and are labelled with their own window. Eligibility estimates: FlySpaceA market research, 2026 · Only verified figures are shown. No tail numbers are stored or displayed. © 2026 The Von Terra Project, Inc. · NOT AN OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT SYSTEM Advisory and outreach partner: The Von Terra Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. VTP does not fund FlySpaceA and pays none of its costs. vonterraproject.org

FlySpaceA Community Impact Report

We Help the Military Community Fly the Benefit They’ve Earned.

More Than 10 Million Americans Have Earned This Benefit. Almost None Get to Use It.

From the East Coast to the Indo-Pacific, We Help Travelers Find the Way.

Departures by Region

Where Space-A Actually Flies.

An Alert Is Only Worth Anything if It Arrives.

Military Travelers Are Finding FlySpaceA.

Real Engineering, in Service of Travelers.

Some Things We Will Never Show.

No CENTCOM Flights.

The Minimum Data, Nothing More.

No Tail Numbers. Ever.

Built for the People Who Serve.

What Comes Next.

Keep the Core Free.

Launch CCaaS With Google Cloud.

Get This Into Air Mobility Command.

Nobody Serves the Space-A Community Like FlySpaceA.

How we checked this

About the author

Corrections

Sources