KSLC · SLC · Salt Lake City, Utah
Planes near SLC: live flight tracking at Salt Lake City International
Salt Lake City International (SLC / KSLC) serves Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. A valley field between two mountain ranges, with a lake on the doorstep.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Salt Lake City. 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 SLC, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:57 UTC | Arrival | DAL1299 | BCS1 · N127DU |
| 02:56 UTC | Departure | SKW4279 | N324SY |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | SKW3706 | N320SY |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | DAL2033 | A21N · N599DA |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | DAL3124 | A319 · N357NB |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | SKW120W | E75L · N288SY |
| 02:48 UTC | Departure | SKW3774 | E75L · N304SY |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | FFT4949 | A21N · N615FR |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | DAL820 | A21N · N609DN |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | SKW3017 | N410SY |
| 02:45 UTC | Arrival | SKW3676 | E75L · N278SY |
| 02:43 UTC | Arrival | DAL2070 | A21N · N598DN |
Showing the most recent 12 of 25 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 SLC. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKW3017N410SY | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmSE of the field |
| SKW3676E75L · N278SY | BozemanKBZN / BZN | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| SKW3291N413SY | PortlandKPDX / PDX | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmW of the field |
| DAL1299BCS1 · N127DU | HoustonKIAH / IAH | on the ground | 27 kt | 1 nmNE of the field |
| DAL2149B738 · N386DA | Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG | 4,375 ft | 146 kt | 2 nmSSE of the field |
| SKW449TE75L · N618UX | DenverKDEN / DEN | 5,900 ft | 142 kt | 6 nmS of the field |
| UAL2769B739 · N68834 | DenverKDEN / DEN | 25,450 ft | 382 kt | 67 nmSE of the field |
| DAL887A21N · N514DE | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 31,000 ft | 430 kt | 120 nmENE of the field |
| DAL1492BCS1 · N128DU | St LouisKSTL / STL | 37,325 ft | 387 kt | 185 nmENE of the field |
| DAL1238A320 · N356NW | PortlandKPDX / PDX | 37,025 ft | 455 kt | 190 nmNW of the field |
| DAL1165B739 · N878DN | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 35,000 ft | 459 kt | 230 nmNW of the field |
| N407JMB407 | KBTF | on the ground | 88 kt | 234 nmE of the field |
| SKW4009N310SY | VancouverCYVR / YVR | 35,000 ft | 411 kt | 240 nmNW of the field |
| SKW3937E75L · N296SY | San JoseKSJC / SJC | 35,000 ft | 519 kt | 255 nmW of the field |
| N170SEBE9L | LanderKLND / LND | 21,275 ft | 256 kt | 257 nmNE of the field |
| DAL2209B739 · N920DU | NashvilleKBNA / BNA | 38,000 ft | 407 kt | 272 nmESE of the field |
| DAL1051A321 · N371DN | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 36,000 ft | 402 kt | 274 nmENE of the field |
| DAL2117A21N · N588DT | DetroitKDTW / DTW | 34,000 ft | 406 kt | 300 nmENE of the field |
| SKW3856E75L · N607CZ | Santa AnaKSNA / SNA | 29,000 ft | 473 kt | 311 nmSSW of the field |
| N331JV | MedfordKMFR / MFR | 13,300 ft | 327 kt | 343 nmSSW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 45
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL2666BCS1 · N136DQ | St LouisKSTL / STL | on the ground | 5 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| DAL2903BCS1 · N137DU | Kansas CityKMCI / MCI | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmS of the field |
| DAL2033A21N · N599DA | NewarkKEWR / EWR | on the ground | 5 kt | 0 nmS of the field |
| SKW3788E75L · N287SY | Colorado SpringsKCOS / COS | on the ground | 12 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| SKW4054E75L · N604CZ | TucsonKTUS / TUS | on the ground | 17 kt | 1 nmSW of the field |
| SKW4279N324SY | St GeorgeKSGU / SGU | 7,225 ft | 246 kt | 5 nmWNW of the field |
| ASA719B739 · N486AS | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 35,000 ft | 446 kt | 6 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL1659A21N · N592DT | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 10,200 ft | 228 kt | 10 nmSSW of the field |
| DAL1244B739 · N854DN | PortlandKPDX / PDX | 12,800 ft | 339 kt | 18 nmNNW of the field |
| SKW3706N320SY | OmahaKOMA / OMA | 14,550 ft | 376 kt | 21 nmNE of the field |
| DAL3124A319 · N357NB | Long BeachKLGB / LGB | 20,900 ft | 345 kt | 28 nmSSW of the field |
| SKW120WE75L · N288SY | Palm SpringsKPSP / PSP | 24,625 ft | 363 kt | 39 nmSSW of the field |
| SKW3774E75L · N304SY | FresnoKFAT / FAT | 21,800 ft | 332 kt | 48 nmW of the field |
| FFT4949A21N · N615FR | PhoenixKPHX / PHX | 28,075 ft | 396 kt | 49 nmSSW of the field |
| DAL2581BCS1 · N133DU | AustinKAUS / AUS | 17,750 ft | 351 kt | 53 nmSSE of the field |
| SKW3703N327SY | Oklahoma CityKOKC / OKC | 32,775 ft | 434 kt | 68 nmE of the field |
| UPS843A306 · N159UP | LouisvilleKSDF / SDF | 31,000 ft | 523 kt | 102 nmENE of the field |
| FFT3278A20N · N402FR | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | 36,975 ft | 490 kt | 152 nmESE of the field |
| DAL745A21N · N507DZ | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 35,675 ft | 430 kt | 157 nmSE of the field |
| DAL1451B739 · N846DN | PhoenixKPHX / PHX | 32,000 ft | 481 kt | 201 nmS of the field |
About Salt Lake City International
- ICAO codeKSLC
- IATA codeSLC
- ServesSalt Lake City
- RegionUtah, United States
- Coordinates40.789°N, 111.980°W
Salt Lake City International sits on the valley floor northwest of downtown, with the Wasatch range rising sharply to the east, the Oquirrhs to the west and the Great Salt Lake just beyond the field. Arrivals and departures work within that valley before climbing out over terrain, which makes the vertical dimension unusually interesting here.
Winter inversions trap cold air and pollution in the valley for days at a time. They do not stop the traffic, but they are the reason visibility reports from this field can be far worse than the weather a few thousand feet above it.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
SLC 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.
KSLC 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 Salt Lake City 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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