KCLT · CLT · Charlotte, North Carolina
Planes near CLT: live flight tracking at Charlotte Douglas International
Charlotte Douglas International (CLT / KCLT) serves Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. A Piedmont connecting hub, with everything arriving and leaving in tight groups.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Charlotte. 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 CLT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:58 UTC | Arrival | AAL1699 | B738 · N812NN |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | AAL1017 | A320 · N103US |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | AAL1773 | A321 · N903AA |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | JIA5272 | CRJ9 · N616NN |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | PDT5876 | E145 · N677AE |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | JIA5263 | CRJ9 · N596NN |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | ENY3419 | E75L · N265NN |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | AAL1932 | A319 · N827AW |
| 02:48 UTC | Arrival | PDT6067 | E145 · N693AE |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | SWA3615 | B38M · N8850Q |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | AAL626 | B738 · N939NN |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | FFL1215 | not identified |
Showing the most recent 12 of 40 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 CLT. 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 35
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAL1699B738 · N812NN | ProvidencialesMBPV / PLS | on the ground | 16 kt | 1 nmWSW of the field |
| RPA5807E75L · N243JQ | BostonKBOS / BOS | 950 ft | 136 kt | 2 nmNW of the field |
| PDT5981E145 · N651AE | AugustaKAGS / AGS | 2,250 ft | 157 kt | 6 nmNNW of the field |
| PDT5876E145 · N677AE | LexingtonKLEX / LEX | 12,175 ft | 330 kt | 16 nmN of the field |
| N902FHC56X | AtlantaKFTY / FTY | 6,225 ft | 264 kt | 17 nmNNW of the field |
| JIA5272CRJ9 · N616NN | Greenville/Greer/SpartanKGSP / GSP | 11,375 ft | 337 kt | 21 nmW of the field |
| EDV5036CRJ9 · N482PX | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 10,025 ft | 283 kt | 33 nmNE of the field |
| JIA5198CRJ9 · N584NN | HuntsvilleKHSV / HSV | 33,000 ft | 513 kt | 97 nmESE of the field |
| DAL2929BCS1 · N106DU | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 27,325 ft | 423 kt | 101 nmNNW of the field |
| N1017HRV10 | GreenvilleKGMU / GMU | 10,350 ft | 155 kt | 121 nmNE of the field |
| DAL3177B712 · N967AT | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 21,750 ft | 446 kt | 131 nmSW of the field |
| PDT5889E145 · N662EH | RoanokeKROA / ROA | 34,000 ft | 424 kt | 163 nmNW of the field |
| PDT6059E145 · N922AE | Knoxville/MaryvilleKTYS / TYS | 4,850 ft | 258 kt | 171 nmE of the field |
| JIA5463CRJ7 · N512AE | ManchesterKMHT / MHT | 33,925 ft | 380 kt | 187 nmNNE of the field |
| AAL1266B738 · N920AN | New OrleansKMSY / MSY | 5,325 ft | 251 kt | 286 nmNW of the field |
| AAL1788A319 · N836AW | RichmondKRIC / RIC | on the ground | 13 kt | 288 nmNE of the field |
| PDT5821E145 · N688AE | FayettevilleKFAY / FAY | 28,000 ft | 403 kt | 307 nmNE of the field |
| PDT6061E145 · N923AE | ColumbiaKCAE / CAE | 1,925 ft | 171 kt | 318 nmN of the field |
| AAL3230B738 · N966NN | Grand RapidsKGRR / GRR | 20,675 ft | 412 kt | 345 nmW of the field |
| SWA4518B737 · N7740A | NashvilleKBNA / BNA | 13,725 ft | 349 kt | 384 nmS of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDT6067E145 · N693AE | EvansvilleKEVV / EVV | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmW of the field |
| AAL671A320 · N121UW | LouisvilleKSDF / SDF | on the ground | 8 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| AAL993B738 · N836NN | RichmondKRIC / RIC | on the ground | 9 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| AAL627A321 · N161AA | ChicagoKORD / ORD | on the ground | 8 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| AAL526A321 · N907AA | NashvilleKBNA / BNA | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmNNE of the field |
| JIA5137N634NN | MontréalCYUL / YUL | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| AAL1727B38M · N306RC | New YorkKJFK / JFK | on the ground | 6 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| FFT1555A20N · N368FR | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | on the ground | 13 kt | 1 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL2260B738 · N872NN | ClevelandKCLE / CLE | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| JIA5671CRJ7 · N712PS | Raleigh/DurhamKRDU / RDU | on the ground | 20 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| JIA5263CRJ9 · N596NN | CharlestonKCRW / CRW | 16,125 ft | 375 kt | 27 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL626B738 · N939NN | Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG | 27,900 ft | 443 kt | 60 nmNW of the field |
| JIA5533CRJ9 · N568NN | GulfportKGPT / GPT | 25,975 ft | 412 kt | 70 nmWSW of the field |
| AAL434B738 · N944NN | AustinKAUS / AUS | 28,000 ft | 363 kt | 82 nmWSW of the field |
| AAL3226A321 · N992AU | ColumbusKCMH / CMH | 28,875 ft | 477 kt | 91 nmN of the field |
| AAL1865B738 · N840NN | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 35,000 ft | 450 kt | 99 nmW of the field |
| AAL321A321 · N979UY | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 32,325 ft | 432 kt | 116 nmS of the field |
| PDT6079E145 · N918AE | GainesvilleKGNV / GNV | 34,000 ft | 343 kt | 116 nmWSW of the field |
| FDX1243B763 · N266FE | MemphisKMEM / MEM | 34,025 ft | 434 kt | 125 nmW of the field |
| AAL2197A320 · N119US | ValparaisoKVPS / VPS | 30,025 ft | 374 kt | 142 nmWSW of the field |
About Charlotte Douglas International
- ICAO codeKCLT
- IATA codeCLT
- ServesCharlotte
- RegionNorth Carolina, United States
- Coordinates35.214°N, 80.943°W
Charlotte Douglas sits west of the city in the Carolina Piedmont, on gently rolling ground with no significant terrain nearby. It runs as a connecting hub, which gives its traffic the same banked rhythm as Atlanta: quiet, then a wave of arrivals, then a wave of departures, then quiet again. On a map that pattern is unmistakable once you have watched it for an hour.
The Appalachians to the northwest are the local complication. Traffic to and from the Ohio valley crosses them, and in winter icing conditions over the ridges can push routings noticeably south.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
CLT 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.
KCLT 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 Charlotte 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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