KLGA · LGA · New York, New York

Planes near LGA: live flight tracking at LaGuardia

LaGuardia (LGA / KLGA) serves New York, New York, United States. Hemmed in by the city and by two larger neighbours, with water on two sides.

40.777°N, 73.873°W · snapshot written 29 August 2026 at 02:58 UTC

The live map

Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around New York. 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 29 August 2026 at 02:58 UTC. This page refreshes by itself while it is open.

These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at LGA, 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.

Most recent first. Times are UTC. Recording is continuous, so a short list here means quiet hours or a thin view of the surface, not a quiet airport.
Time	Movement	Flight	Aircraft
02:58 UTC	Arrival	DAL2321	A321 · N368DN
02:57 UTC	Departure	UAL1559	B738 · N17244
02:56 UTC	Arrival	RPA5768	E75L · N202JQ
02:54 UTC	Departure	RPA4561	E170 · N865RW
02:54 UTC	Arrival	JBU1962	A320 · N703JB
02:53 UTC	Arrival	EDV5449	CRJ9 · N538CA
02:51 UTC	Departure	EDV5417	CRJ9 · N303PQ
02:51 UTC	Arrival	JBU1098	A320 · N649JB
02:50 UTC	Departure	RPA5815	E75L · N222JQ
02:49 UTC	Arrival	JZA658	CRJ7 · C-FCJZ
02:48 UTC	Departure	RPA5705	E170 · N815MD
02:48 UTC	Arrival	SWA4863	B738 · N8690A

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 LGA. 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 25

Aircraft whose callsign most often ends at LGA, nearest first. Distance is straight line from the field, not track miles.
Flight	From	Altitude	Ground speed	Distance
RPA5768E75L · N202JQ	WashingtonKDCA / DCA	on the ground	9 kt	0 nmESE of the field
EDV5449CRJ9 · N538CA	MontréalCYUL / YUL	on the ground	0 kt	0 nmSE of the field
JBU1962A320 · N703JB	KPBI	on the ground	9 kt	0 nmESE of the field
RPA5716E75L · N235JQ	BostonKBOS / BOS	425 ft	123 kt	2 nmSE of the field
RPA5840E75L · N207JQ	BostonKBOS / BOS	3,875 ft	260 kt	3 nmESE of the field
UAL2033A21N · N54525	DenverKDEN / DEN	1,925 ft	166 kt	4 nmSSW of the field
RPA5609E75L · N226JQ	BostonKBOS / BOS	2,875 ft	187 kt	8 nmSSW of the field
DAL520A321 · N394DX	AtlantaKATL / ATL	3,175 ft	190 kt	13 nmSW of the field
AAL1389A321 · N546UW	MiamiKMIA / MIA	9,500 ft	262 kt	38 nmSW of the field
DAL2943	HoustonKIAH / IAH	27,000 ft	500 kt	139 nmSW of the field
RPA4379E75L · N129HQ	BuffaloKBUF / BUF	27,000 ft	481 kt	146 nmWNW of the field
RPA4502E75L · N126HQ	RichmondKRIC / RIC	on the ground	6 kt	160 nmNE of the field
EDV5047CRJ9 · N929XJ	CharlotteKCLT / CLT	33,675 ft	519 kt	170 nmSW of the field
DAL2466B738 · N3737C	KPBI	35,000 ft	530 kt	208 nmSW of the field
JBU572A320 · N527JL	Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL	35,000 ft	520 kt	227 nmSW of the field
DAL2603A321 · N118DY	DetroitKDTW / DTW	30,475 ft	500 kt	312 nmWNW of the field
RPA4591E75L · N401YX	MadisonKMSN / MSN	27,000 ft	463 kt	336 nmWNW of the field
EDV5022CRJ9 · N182GJ	NashvilleKBNA / BNA	35,000 ft	488 kt	354 nmW of the field
DAL368B739 · N870DN	MinneapolisKMSP / MSP	35,000 ft	489 kt	431 nmW of the field
FFT3288A20N · N384FR	AtlantaKATL / ATL	37,000 ft	519 kt	494 nmWSW of the field

Outbound nearest 20 of 60

Aircraft whose callsign most often begins at LGA, nearest first. Distance is straight line from the field, not track miles.
Flight	To	Altitude	Ground speed	Distance
RPA4719E75L · N414YX	WashingtonKDCA / DCA	9,875 ft	359 kt	54 nmSW of the field
UAL1595B39M · N37535	HoustonKIAH / IAH	8,200 ft	267 kt	56 nmWSW of the field
DAL846B738 · N380DA	Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW	12,875 ft	356 kt	70 nmW of the field
DAL975A321 · N398DN	AtlantaKATL / ATL	26,050 ft	444 kt	76 nmWSW of the field
RPA4619E170 · N653RW	TulsaKTUL / TUL	36,000 ft	363 kt	90 nmWSW of the field
AAL1320A319 · N702UW	CharlotteKCLT / CLT	3,850 ft	236 kt	98 nmWNW of the field
AAL1166B738 · N992NN	Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW	16,225 ft	413 kt	99 nmW of the field
AAL2057B738 · N907AN	ChicagoKORD / ORD	38,000 ft	390 kt	101 nmWNW of the field
EDV5397CRJ9 · N923XJ	BuffaloKBUF / BUF	24,000 ft	400 kt	120 nmWNW of the field
EDV5332CRJ9 · N295PQ	NorfolkKORF / ORF	24,000 ft	429 kt	120 nmSSW of the field
RPA4722E75L · N421YX	ClevelandKCLE / CLE	30,000 ft	413 kt	137 nmW of the field
AAL2165B738 · N895NN	New OrleansKMSY / MSY	30,100 ft	504 kt	137 nmNW of the field
DAL2503BCS3 · N336DU	ChicagoKORD / ORD	29,200 ft	516 kt	151 nmW of the field
DAL1825BCS3 · N335DU	WashingtonKDCA / DCA	9,850 ft	262 kt	160 nmSW of the field
POE608E295 · C-GZQX	TorontoCYYZ / YYZ	30,000 ft	436 kt	163 nmNW of the field
RPA4690E75L · N430YX	JacksonvilleKJAX / JAX	27,000 ft	460 kt	165 nmSSW of the field
RPA4345E75L · N134HQ	RichmondKRIC / RIC	23,000 ft	407 kt	167 nmSW of the field
RPA4589E170 · N861RW	NorfolkKORF / ORF	17,025 ft	378 kt	190 nmSSW of the field
RPA4521E75L · N428YX	BuffaloKBUF / BUF	19,925 ft	344 kt	197 nmWNW of the field
RPA4369E75L · N121HQ	TorontoCYYZ / YYZ	21,125 ft	386 kt	240 nmWNW of the field

About LaGuardia

ICAO codeKLGA
IATA codeLGA
ServesNew York
RegionNew York, United States
Coordinates40.777°N, 73.873°W

LaGuardia sits on the edge of Flushing Bay in Queens, closer to Manhattan than either Kennedy or Newark and considerably more constrained than either. Water on two sides and dense city on the others leave very little room, and the approaches are correspondingly precise. Almost everything here is domestic and short to medium haul.

This is the best field in the region to watch at low zoom. Arrivals over the water are close together and low, and the turn onto final is tight enough to read clearly on the map rather than having to infer it.

What the codes mean

Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable. LGA 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. KLGA 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 New York 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

The nearest fields with their own live page: