KBNA · BNA · Nashville, Tennessee
Planes near BNA: live flight tracking at Nashville International
Nashville International (BNA / KBNA) serves Nashville, Tennessee, United States. A middle Tennessee field on rolling ground, busy out of proportion to the city.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Nashville. The frame is fixed on the field; tap or click an aircraft to open its full details.
Nothing here is filtered. Military aircraft, aircraft in the FAA's LADD privacy programme and aircraft using temporary addresses all appear the same way anything else does. Open the full map to pan, zoom and switch layers.
Movements we watched happen
Snapshot written . This page refreshes by itself while it is open.
These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at BNA, each with the time it was seen. Nothing here is guessed from a timetable.
Why there may be fewer departures than arrivals
A departure is only counted once a receiver has seen the aircraft on the ground here first. That guard stops us inventing takeoffs for aircraft that merely flew overhead, and it costs us real ones: hearing an aircraft sitting on an airport surface needs a receiver with line of sight to that surface, which is the hardest reception there is. An arrival only needs the aircraft to have been seen airborne, and airborne coverage is very good.
So at any airport without a clear view of the ground, this list will show fewer departures than actually happened. If you see more arrivals than departures below, read that as a fact about where the antennas are, not about the airport.
| Time | Movement | Flight | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | SKW4163 | E75L · N247SY |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | BAW22E | B772 · G-VIIV |
| 02:45 UTC | Arrival | EDV4908 | CRJ9 · N918XJ |
| 02:42 UTC | Arrival | AAL1573 | A319 · N708UW |
| 02:38 UTC | Arrival | SWA3910 | B737 · N904WN |
| 02:32 UTC | Arrival | EDV4723 | CRJ9 · N197PQ |
| 02:29 UTC | Arrival | DAL2586 | BCS3 · N310DU |
| 02:28 UTC | Departure | SWA1200 | B38M · N8879Q |
| 02:24 UTC | Arrival | SWA4044 | B738 · N8934Q |
| 02:24 UTC | Departure | N8953Q | not identified |
10 movements in the current recording window.
What appears to be inbound and outbound right now
Where the aircraft in range right now are most likely heading, worked out from their callsigns rather than watched happening.
How this list is built
We take the aircraft the receiver network can currently hear, read the callsign each one is broadcasting, and look that callsign up in an index of the routes it has actually flown before. An entry means this callsign's most commonly observed route ends at BNA. That is a good guide to where a flight is going. It is not a flight plan: nobody has told us today's routing, and we would rather say that than dress an inference up as a schedule.
The consequences are worth knowing. A diversion or an unusual routing will be listed wrong. A charter, a positioning leg, or any flight the index has not seen before is missing entirely. You will occasionally see an aircraft here sitting on the ground on the far side of a continent, which is the method showing its working rather than hiding it. There are no scheduled times or arrival estimates on this page because neither can be computed honestly from what we hold.
For gates, delays and cancellations the airline and the airport are authoritative. This page is for what is actually in the air.
Inbound nearest 20 of 37
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL2126N961DZ | DetroitKDTW / DTW | 675 ft | 129 kt | 2 nmSSW of the field |
| SKW6326CRJ7 · N705SK | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 1,950 ft | 129 kt | 6 nmSSW of the field |
| TWY983CL35 · N247JJ | SavoyKCMI / CMI | 3,025 ft | 233 kt | 16 nmSSW of the field |
| N927GLSF25 | KHKS | 17,325 ft | 178 kt | 30 nmW of the field |
| N904VU | KMRC | 1,000 ft | 42 kt | 56 nmSW of the field |
| SCX3064B738 · N5167A | BaltimoreKBWI / BWI | 22,000 ft | 418 kt | 69 nmENE of the field |
| ROU1717B38M · C-FSJJ | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 22,600 ft | 409 kt | 74 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL2277A319 · N755US | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 23,525 ft | 406 kt | 78 nmENE of the field |
| UAL2175B39M · N37473 | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 35,000 ft | 456 kt | 115 nmN of the field |
| UAL1261B39M · N37542 | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 27,000 ft | 471 kt | 125 nmENE of the field |
| SWA4429B738 · N8672F | DenverKDEN / DEN | 3,550 ft | 212 kt | 208 nmN of the field |
| SWA4005B737 · N967WN | TampaKTPA / TPA | 41,000 ft | 465 kt | 278 nmSW of the field |
| AAL526A321 · N907AA | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | on the ground | 0 kt | 285 nmE of the field |
| SWA4269B38M · N8729H | Kansas CityKMCI / MCI | 40,000 ft | 504 kt | 305 nmNNE of the field |
| SWA4319B738 · N8670A | AustinKAUS / AUS | 37,000 ft | 492 kt | 305 nmE of the field |
| AAL3047A319 · N4005X | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 38,000 ft | 445 kt | 372 nmNW of the field |
| PXG691C560 · N691ES | AtlantaKPDK / PDK | 36,000 ft | 358 kt | 380 nmNNW of the field |
| N3200XFA7X | MorristownKMMU / MMU | on the ground | 5 kt | 404 nmWNW of the field |
| N215CLC700 | TeterboroKTEB / TEB | 22,825 ft | 414 kt | 457 nmNNE of the field |
| N797MMC560 | KJVL | 16,750 ft | 352 kt | 476 nmNNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 35
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAW22EB772 · G-VIIV | LondonEGLL / LHR | 13,675 ft | 392 kt | 36 nmNNE of the field |
| N524MTEC35 | KPHT | 1,425 ft | 129 kt | 108 nmW of the field |
| SWA643N8953Q | PhoenixKPHX / PHX | 32,000 ft | 465 kt | 235 nmW of the field |
| ICE824B39M · TF-ICA | ReykjavíkBIKF / KEF | 33,000 ft | 503 kt | 311 nmENE of the field |
| UAL1884B739 · N67815 | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 2,475 ft | 215 kt | 355 nmN of the field |
| SWA4690B738 · N8663A | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 39,975 ft | 456 kt | 376 nmSW of the field |
| EDV5022CRJ9 · N182GJ | New YorkKLGA / LGA | 35,000 ft | 488 kt | 393 nmNE of the field |
| RPA4474E75L · N440YX | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 35,000 ft | 450 kt | 393 nmNNE of the field |
| UAL1460A320 · N484UA | DullesKIAD / IAD | on the ground | 0 kt | 470 nmENE of the field |
| RPA4495E75L · N433YX | WashingtonKDCA / DCA | 28,000 ft | 396 kt | 473 nmE of the field |
| SWA565B738 · N8534Z | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 21,025 ft | 395 kt | 485 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA2241N8948Q | ChicagoKMDW / MDW | 41,000 ft | 491 kt | 494 nmSW of the field |
| SWA4518B737 · N7740A | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 13,725 ft | 349 kt | 506 nmSSE of the field |
| ENY3825E75L · N215NN | TampaKTPA / TPA | 17,650 ft | 379 kt | 520 nmWSW of the field |
| SWA2160B38M · N9009U | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 40,000 ft | 445 kt | 534 nmWSW of the field |
| UAL2461B39M · N17429 | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 11,225 ft | 305 kt | 567 nmSW of the field |
| SWA694B38M · N8885Q | Knoxville/MaryvilleKTYS / TYS | 39,000 ft | 491 kt | 738 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA4069B738 · N8662F | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 38,675 ft | 496 kt | 773 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA4369B738 · N8312C | HartfordKBDL / BDL | 40,000 ft | 438 kt | 787 nmW of the field |
| SWA451B737 · N567WN | AustinKAUS / AUS | 41,000 ft | 477 kt | 800 nmWNW of the field |
About Nashville International
- ICAO codeKBNA
- IATA codeBNA
- ServesNashville
- RegionTennessee, United States
- Coordinates36.124°N, 86.678°W
Nashville International sits southeast of downtown in the rolling country of middle Tennessee. There is no dramatic terrain here, but there is a lot of it gently in the way, which affects how far a ground-based receiver can hear low-flying aircraft. The field carries considerably more traffic than the size of the metropolitan area alone would suggest.
Spring severe weather is the local signature. Squall lines cross Tennessee from the west, and when one is coming through you can watch the whole arrival flow stop and the map fill with holding patterns.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
BNA is the IATA code: three letters, the one printed on a
boarding pass and a baggage tag, assigned for commercial purposes and reused across
the world without any geographic logic.
KBNA is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
letter, K, marks
the contiguous United States, because ICAO allocates the code space by region.
The callsigns in the lists above are a third thing again. A callsign is what the crew typed into the transponder for this leg, so it changes flight by flight, while the registration and the 24-bit hex address stay with the airframe. When a callsign and a registration disagree, the registration is usually the more reliable of the two.
How to read the numbers
Altitude is pressure altitude, which is what the aircraft's air data system reads with a standard pressure setting. It is not height above the ground and it is not always the altitude the crew is flying to. Near Nashville that gap is most obvious on approach, when a tracker can show a figure that does not match what is on the flight deck.
Ground speed is speed across the earth, not through the air. A strong tailwind can add a hundred knots or more to it without the aircraft flying any faster, which is why two aircraft at the same level going opposite ways can show wildly different numbers. Track is the direction of travel over the ground, which is not the direction the nose is pointing when there is any crosswind at all.
Aircraft go missing from this map for reasons that have nothing to do with the aircraft. Reception is line of sight, so terrain and distance cut it off abruptly; a good deal of light aviation in the United States broadcasts on 978 MHz rather than 1090 MHz; and plenty of aircraft, including gliders and older light types, carry no ADS-B at all and are not required to. How ADS-B works covers all of that properly.
Other airports on the map
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