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Flight Deck

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California's Great America

Seated on trains suspended from the overhead inverted steel track, the Flight Deck roller coaster takes park guests on a ride designed to resemble a fighter jet. Here you'll experience a nine-story drop into a vertical loop, a weightless zero-G roll over the ride entry and a thrilling finale consisting of a corkscrew inversion into high-speed helix while flying over a body of water.

Flight Deck Details

Year Track Type Designer
1993 Steel Inverted Multielement Bolliger and Mabillard

Roller Coaster Stats

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Height: 102 feet Drop: 91 feet
Top Speed: 50 mph Length: 2,260 feet
Inversions: 3 Trains: 2 - 28 passenger
Ride Time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

More Facts About Flight Deck

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2008 - Top Gun renamed Flight Deck

Inversions: Vertical Loop, Zero-G Roll, Corkscrew

Trains have seven cars with one row each, seating four abreast per row.

Ride capacity: 1,380 passengers per hour

Height requirement: Must be at least 54 inches tall

Where to Coast

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See: California's Great America

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