KDFW · DFW · Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas
Planes near DFW: live flight tracking at Dallas Fort Worth International
Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW / KDFW) serves Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, United States. A very large field on open prairie, with Love Field close enough to share the picture.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Dallas and Fort Worth. 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 DFW, 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 | Departure | ENY3659 | N340TC |
| 02:58 UTC | Departure | AAL2775 | A321 · N568UW |
| 02:57 UTC | Arrival | ENY3794 | N794JH |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | JIA5086 | N629NN |
| 02:56 UTC | Departure | ENY3783 | E75L · N256NN |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | AAL2209 | B738 · N886NN |
| 02:54 UTC | Departure | AAL3097 | B738 · N935AN |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | ENY3431 | E75L · N228NN |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | AAL1036 | A320 · N669AW |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | ASA550 | B738 · N524AS |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | AAL1458 | B738 · N977NN |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | AAL963 | B789 · N836AA |
Showing the most recent 12 of 36 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 DFW. 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 52
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAL1636A321 · N928AM | RenoKRNO / RNO | 525 ft | 1 kt | 0 nmWSW of the field |
| JIA5279CRJ9 · N647NN | JacksonKJAN / JAN | 575 ft | 145 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL2967A320 · N336NW | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 1,200 ft | 136 kt | 3 nmNNE of the field |
| FFT3097N637FR | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 2,850 ft | 183 kt | 8 nmN of the field |
| SKW4902CRJ7 · N761ND | MidlandKMAF / MAF | 16,925 ft | 413 kt | 72 nmESE of the field |
| UAL685A21N · N14548 | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 33,975 ft | 435 kt | 115 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL1292B38M · N316SE | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 36,000 ft | 436 kt | 118 nmENE of the field |
| ENY3617N350CD | LubbockKLBB / LBB | 31,000 ft | 447 kt | 157 nmENE of the field |
| DAL352B738 · N774DE | New YorkKLGA / LGA | 40,000 ft | 442 kt | 342 nmENE of the field |
| SKW6421CRJ7 · N724SK | LubbockKLBB / LBB | 36,000 ft | 439 kt | 391 nmWNW of the field |
| JBU2279A320 · N834JB | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 34,000 ft | 428 kt | 396 nmESE of the field |
| AAL2024A321 · N900UW | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 39,000 ft | 464 kt | 415 nmW of the field |
| FFT3889A20N · N392FR | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 26,000 ft | 481 kt | 499 nmENE of the field |
| FFT3326A20N · N375FR | Santa AnaKSNA / SNA | 37,000 ft | 452 kt | 528 nmW of the field |
| DAL948A319 · N314NB | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 38,025 ft | 461 kt | 541 nmW of the field |
| FFT3212A321 · N722FR | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 39,000 ft | 468 kt | 551 nmWNW of the field |
| AAL3323A321 · N904AA | New YorkKLGA / LGA | 34,000 ft | 437 kt | 555 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL374A321 · N360DN | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 14,075 ft | 389 kt | 590 nmE of the field |
| AAL1271A320 · N122US | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | on the ground | 0 kt | 603 nmENE of the field |
| DAL420A319 · N360NB | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 39,000 ft | 466 kt | 623 nmW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAL1797A321 · N154AA | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| AAL2438A319 · N775XF | Fort MyersKRSW / RSW | on the ground | 7 kt | 0 nmNW of the field |
| AAL1500A321 · N910AU | NashvilleKBNA / BNA | on the ground | 10 kt | 1 nmNNE of the field |
| AAL1036A320 · N669AW | Kansas CityKMCI / MCI | 11,800 ft | 354 kt | 11 nmNW of the field |
| AAL2209B738 · N886NN | HoustonKIAH / IAH | 7,800 ft | 277 kt | 14 nmS of the field |
| ENY3431E75L · N228NN | College StationKCLL / CLL | 10,700 ft | 342 kt | 21 nmS of the field |
| AAL3097B738 · N935AN | San AntonioKSAT / SAT | 10,625 ft | 318 kt | 21 nmS of the field |
| AAL1458B738 · N977NN | Oklahoma CityKOKC / OKC | 20,850 ft | 406 kt | 26 nmN of the field |
| AAL2238B38M · N347TT | OntarioKONT / ONT | 7,575 ft | 274 kt | 27 nmNE of the field |
| ASA550B738 · N524AS | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 17,325 ft | 383 kt | 30 nmW of the field |
| SKW4817CRJ9 · N817SK | St GeorgeKSGU / SGU | 22,200 ft | 418 kt | 66 nmWNW of the field |
| AAL963B789 · N836AA | São PauloSBGR / GRU | 18,750 ft | 453 kt | 67 nmSSE of the field |
| SKW4961CRJ7 · N722EV | StillwaterKSWO / SWO | 22,000 ft | 441 kt | 68 nmN of the field |
| AAL757A321 · N987AM | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 18,575 ft | 389 kt | 71 nmNW of the field |
| AAL1393A321 · N993AN | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 24,025 ft | 441 kt | 78 nmSE of the field |
| AAL546A320 · N662AW | San AntonioKSAT / SAT | 23,975 ft | 479 kt | 89 nmS of the field |
| UPS767B763 · N382UP | LouisvilleKSDF / SDF | 33,000 ft | 454 kt | 108 nmNE of the field |
| AAL1406A319 · N90024 | San AntonioKSAT / SAT | 24,000 ft | 447 kt | 116 nmS of the field |
| AAL577N951XV | DenverKDEN / DEN | 32,000 ft | 440 kt | 138 nmWNW of the field |
| AAL2707A321 · N136AN | AustinKAUS / AUS | on the ground | 4 kt | 165 nmSSW of the field |
About Dallas Fort Worth International
- ICAO codeKDFW
- IATA codeDFW
- ServesDallas and Fort Worth
- RegionTexas, United States
- Coordinates32.897°N, 97.038°W
Dallas Fort Worth occupies a wide stretch of north Texas prairie between the two cities it is named for. The field itself is large enough to be worth zooming into: ground contacts spread across a footprint most airports would not fill. Dallas Love Field sits close by to the southeast, so a view framed on one of them usually catches the other.
Spring is the season that rearranges everything. Supercells cross north Texas from the west, and the arrival flow can be pushed a long way off its normal geometry for an hour at a time before returning.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
DFW 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.
KDFW 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 Dallas and Fort Worth 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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