Six Flags America is set to close forever this November, but one of its major roller coasters won’t make it to that final day. 

Signs recently posted outside Batwing, the Bowie, Maryland park’s Vekoma Flying Dutchman coaster, confirmed to guests that the ride “has taken its final flight.”  

Long plagued by operational issues, Batwing closed earlier in the season, then reopened before last running in July. Screamscape, which reports on theme park and coaster rumors, said in an Aug. 7 post that the last closure came after a cover on Batwing’s lead car “came loose” in the middle of the ride. Theme Park Tribune was not able to independently verify that such an incident occurred. 

Batwing’s closure is the end of Vekoma’s original Flying Dutchman model, which simulated flying by putting riders on their backs (unlike the Bolliger & Mabillard flying coasters which suspended guests below the track). The prototype for the coaster model, Nighthawk, closed at Carowinds last year, while Kings Island closed its Flying Dutchman, Firehawk, in 2018. 

Six Flags America itself will close for good after Nov. 2, becoming the first casualty of the 2024 merger between Six Flags and Cedar Fair. It may not be the last. 

Dennis Speigel, president of International Theme Park Services, recently predicted to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley News that additional park sales, closures, and even a chainwide bankruptcy “could be inevitable” for Six Flags due to the company’s debt.