Flight number record
OH 5236
PSA Airlines · Washington to White Plains
- Route
- DCA → HPN
- Departs
- 16:59
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5236, check with PSA Airlines. PSA Airlines flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
OH 5236 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 55.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 22 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OH 5236 runs 22 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 220 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
55.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
9.54%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
20.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When OH 5236 flies
OH 5236 flies DCA to HPN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:59, used on 100 of 346 flights, with 17:00 (81 flights) and 16:53 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 16:59100 flights28.9%
- Departs 17:0081 flights23.4%
- Departs 16:5345 flights13.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 16:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and OH 5236 runs 17 points worse at 55.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
OH 5236 next to DCA to HPN
Every carrier on DCA to HPN combined arrived on time 61.6% of the time across 1,354 flights, so OH 5236 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight trails by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5236thin sample | 346 | 55.3% | 86 min | 9.54% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–HPN | 1,354 | 61.6% | 89 min | 7.31% | D− |
| All carriers on DCA–HPN | 1,354 | 61.6% | 89 min | 7.31% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5236 quarter by quarter
OH 5236 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 40.3%, a swing of 40 points on roughly 69 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights62.2%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights40.3%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights57.8%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights45.5%
Scale runs 30% to 85%.
By weekday, OH 5236 did best on Tuesday at 69.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 44.4%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5236 runs when it is late
The 139 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 44 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 64 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early46 flights14.8%
- Within 15 min126 flights40.5%
- 15–29 min late31 flights10.0%
- 30–59 min late44 flights14.1%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights10.9%
- 2+ hours late30 flights9.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 311 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 138 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5236
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 April 2026, 16 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 April 2026 | 16 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 6 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 March 2026 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 July 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why OH 5236 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 11,943 delay minutes reported on OH 5236.
Cancellations run at 9.54%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in ten cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
20.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
Every one of the 346 flights under OH 5236 in the data flew DCA to HPN. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 346 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking OH 5236
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5236: 9.54% of its 346 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to HPN, every carrier and departure
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A flight number here means PSA Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.