Global air traffic in flight

Aircraft picked up by the open adsb.lol receiver network at the time of the reading, over ten discs of 250 nautical miles radius centred on the world's major traffic basins. Aircraft broadcast their own position, altitude and speed over ADS-B.

1,635

aircraft tracked

1,400

in flight

318

climbing

332

descending

Reading of 20 Sept 2026, 09:25 UTC, across 10 regions.

By observed region

Medians cover aircraft in flight only. An aircraft broadcasting neither altitude nor speed enters no median, but is still counted among the aircraft tracked.

Region	Tracked	In flight	On ground	Median altitude	Median speed	Climb	Descent
Western EuropeParis, 250 nautical mile radius	850	747	103	20,625 ft	373 kt	176	150
JapanTokyo, 250 nautical mile radius	179	150	29	23,788 ft	413 kt	31	51
Turkey and Black SeaIstanbul, 250 nautical mile radius	124	124	0	34,000 ft	434 kt	18	26
Persian GulfDubai, 250 nautical mile radius	98	84	14	26,388 ft	435 kt	25	20
South east BrazilSão Paulo, 250 nautical mile radius	94	86	8	25,000 ft	382 kt	20	25
South east AustraliaSydney, 250 nautical mile radius	85	58	27	23,925 ft	351 kt	9	15
South East AsiaSingapore, 250 nautical mile radius	71	71	0	17,325 ft	370 kt	21	24
United States east coastNew York, 250 nautical mile radius	69	34	35	27,338 ft	429 kt	3	14
United States west coastLos Angeles, 250 nautical mile radius	38	20	18	11,050 ft	282 kt	6	2
Southern AfricaJohannesburg, 250 nautical mile radius	27	26	1	23,538 ft	385 kt	9	5

The fastest aircraft

Ground speed, across all regions. It combines the aircraft's own speed and its tailwind: a westerly to easterly flight over the North Atlantic can gain more than a hundred knots from it.

Flight	Type	Region	Ground speed	Altitude	Position
AFR33JF-GSPZ	B772	Western Europe	581 kt	35,000 ft	51.63° N, 2.32° W
AUA8KOE-LPM	B789	Western Europe	577 kt	39,000 ft	51.59° N, 6.57° E
UAL932N26909	B788	Western Europe	574 kt	38,975 ft	52.16° N, 4.06° E
FYG51BMPH-BEJ	GL5T	Western Europe	574 kt	33,000 ft	50.56° N, 6.77° E
AFR173F-HUVE	A359	United States east coast	571 kt	39,000 ft	43.65° N, 70.36° W
THY8TC-LJA	B77W	Western Europe	569 kt	35,000 ft	51.51° N, 6.87° E
ETD9SMA6-XWH	A35K	Western Europe	568 kt	37,000 ft	50.96° N, 2.49° E
QTR91TA7-APG	A388	Western Europe	568 kt	34,350 ft	50.70° N, 3.91° E
UAE238A6-EQK	B77W	Western Europe	567 kt	35,000 ft	50.99° N, 2.33° E
AAL240N785AN	B772	Western Europe	564 kt	35,975 ft	51.64° N, 1.91° W
QTR94RA7-BHM	B789	Western Europe	564 kt	28,425 ft	51.18° N, 2.69° E
RYR4HHEI-ILT	B38M	Western Europe	561 kt	33,450 ft	52.13° N, 3.79° E
HL8299HL8299	GLF6	Japan	560 kt	41,000 ft	38.96° N, 140.09° E
KAL8207HL8044	B77L	Japan	559 kt	31,000 ft	37.69° N, 138.34° E
DAL264N831MH	B764	Western Europe	556 kt	35,000 ft	51.34° N, 1.56° W
DLH447D-AIXF	A359	Western Europe	554 kt	29,450 ft	51.29° N, 6.98° E
CLX6696LX-KCL	B744	United States east coast	552 kt	33,000 ft	42.63° N, 69.45° W
UAL6N26970	B789	Japan	551 kt	28,975 ft	35.98° N, 143.28° E
RYR6ZU9H-QFO	B738	Western Europe	551 kt	37,000 ft	52.60° N, 4.26° E
DLH507D-ABYF	B748	Western Europe	548 kt	32,800 ft	49.29° N, 4.90° E

State aircraft

35 aircraft flagged as military or governmental in the adsb.lol database were broadcasting their position at the time of the reading, worldwide. Many state aircraft do not broadcast, or mask their identity: this list therefore says nothing about what flies unannounced.

Equirectangular projection, from 60°S to 84°N. 35 positions plotted. Hover a dot to read it.

Callsign	Registration	Type	Altitude	Ground speed	Position
MRS0314	CN-RGA	B744	37,000 ft	455 kt	38.26° N, 25.82° W
CFC3197	144617	CL60	36,000 ft	429 kt	61.65° N, 0.74° W
DAF4414	C-168	CL60	36,000 ft	422 kt	59.76° N, 3.58° E
MOOSE67	04-4134	C17	36,000 ft	436 kt	47.85° N, 19.75° E
HUF302	604	A319	34,000 ft	468 kt	42.47° N, 23.15° E
TRK1	TC-TUR	A332	34,000 ft	459 kt	43.08° N, 25.96° E
GAFMED1	54+11	A400	32,975 ft	422 kt	41.10° N, 19.28° E
@@@@@@@@			31,550 ft		36.91° N, 137.30° E
IAM4618	MM62186	C30J	26,000 ft	285 kt	45.88° N, 11.80° E
MJN291	506	C30J	26,000 ft	255 kt	37.99° N, 23.52° E
B-4080	B-4080	B738	23,500 ft	409 kt	40.32° N, 114.44° E
ROF202	2704	C27J	23,025 ft	154 kt	48.36° N, 13.77° E
CTM3926	77	TBM7	23,000 ft	324 kt	52.90° N, 15.99° E
SPAR95	95-00123	C560	22,000 ft	357 kt	48.19° N, 9.05° E
GAF649	15+01	A319	21,600 ft	450 kt	51.13° N, 8.24° E
SVF828	84006	C130	21,100 ft	174 kt	53.91° N, 10.57° E
353608			18,000 ft	116 kt	50.14° N, 6.05° E
FNY5117	26	ATLA	16,775 ft	218 kt	47.23° N, 2.39° W
HAF356H	747	C130	16,400 ft	135 kt	51.07° N, 6.61° E
CTM2006	F-RBAT	A400	16,250 ft	318 kt	26.71° N, 49.38° E
TITAN124	222	C27J	13,000 ft	276 kt	1.56° S, 37.15° E
ZAM31	QA359	PC21	9,100 ft	279 kt	25.03° N, 51.26° E
SHDE10			8,425 ft	287 kt	14.82° N, 120.57° E
DAF7591	B-537	C30J	7,350 ft	185 kt	63.97° N, 22.94° W
RRR4952	ZM421	A400	5,950 ft	210 kt	51.22° N, 1.90° W

The 25 highest flying aircraft. Those on the ground are absent from this table, but remain on the map.

Source and freshness

Every position on this page comes from adsb.lol, an open network of volunteer receivers. They are requested by our servers and cached for 60 seconds: your browser never calls adsb.lol, and the network receives one request per minute per region, whatever the number of visitors.

Network coverage is very uneven: dense over Europe and North America, sparse over Africa, the oceans and parts of Asia. A low aircraft count in a region therefore measures the density of ground receivers first, not the density of traffic. These figures are neither an official count nor a navigation source.

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