RJAA · NRT · Narita, Chiba
Planes near NRT: live flight tracking at Tokyo Narita
Tokyo Narita (NRT / RJAA) serves Narita, Chiba, Japan. Inland and east of Tokyo, historically the long-haul and freight half of the pair.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Narita. 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 NRT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| No movements have been watched here in the current recording window. This list fills continuously, and a short one usually means quiet hours or a thin view of the airport surface rather than an empty airport. | |||
Nothing recorded here yet in the current 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 NRT. 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 46
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNA205B738 · HL8016 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 4,725 ft | 197 kt | 13 nmSSE of the field |
| PTA501A332 · HL8709 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 7,800 ft | 233 kt | 22 nmE of the field |
| EVA184B78X · B-17811 | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | 4,075 ft | 257 kt | 23 nmSSE of the field |
| JJP104A320 · JA04JJ | SapporoRJCC / CTS | 7,500 ft | 186 kt | 26 nmESE of the field |
| JJA1175B38M · HL8555 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 11,525 ft | 293 kt | 29 nmNE of the field |
| FIN73A359 · OH-LWF | Helsinki (Vantaa)EFHK / HEL | 14,650 ft | 376 kt | 45 nmNNE of the field |
| CAL102A343 · B-18807 | Kaohsiung (Xiaogang)RCKH / KHH | 11,100 ft | 304 kt | 45 nmSSE of the field |
| JJP602A320 · JA06JJ | OitaRJFO / OIT | 14,250 ft | 357 kt | 55 nmS of the field |
| UAE9806B77L · A6-EFT | Dubai(Jebel Ali)OMDW / DWC | 23,225 ft | 506 kt | 74 nmNNW of the field |
| TWB243B738 · HL8056 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 33,000 ft | 507 kt | 120 nmWNW of the field |
| SJO858B738 · JA06GR | HakodateRJCH / HKD | 37,550 ft | 493 kt | 121 nmN of the field |
| JJP500A320 · JA05JJ | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | 37,000 ft | 457 kt | 127 nmSW of the field |
| KAL703A388 · HL7621 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 35,000 ft | 528 kt | 137 nmWNW of the field |
| TWB251B738 · HL8363 | DaeguRKTN / TAE | 35,000 ft | 500 kt | 147 nmWNW of the field |
| CEB5054A21N · RP-C4142 | Manila (Pasay)RPLL / MNL | 33,025 ft | 467 kt | 149 nmSW of the field |
| SJX800A35K · B-58552 | TaoyuanRCTP / TPE | 37,000 ft | 492 kt | 167 nmSW of the field |
| JJA1103B38M · HL8592 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 35,000 ft | 501 kt | 191 nmWNW of the field |
| TTW280A20N · B-50023 | Kaohsiung (Xiaogang)RCKH / KHH | 36,975 ft | 458 kt | 247 nmSW of the field |
| JJA1153B38M · HL8523 | BusanRKPK / PUS | 35,000 ft | 496 kt | 271 nmWNW of the field |
| QTR808B77W · A7-BEW | DohaOTHH / DOH | 37,000 ft | 529 kt | 294 nmWNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 24
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAL723B788 · JA844J | SepangWMKK / KUL | 10,375 ft | 315 kt | 6 nmNNE of the field |
| ASV706A321 · HL7790 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 16,350 ft | 354 kt | 15 nmW of the field |
| ESR602B38M · HL8717 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 24,725 ft | 387 kt | 42 nmWNW of the field |
| FDX6030B77L · N860FD | AnchoragePANC / ANC | 21,800 ft | 486 kt | 44 nmE of the field |
| ABL111A21N · HL8395 | RKPE | 28,000 ft | 412 kt | 74 nmWNW of the field |
| FDX5154B77L · N862FD | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 38,000 ft | 450 kt | 109 nmW of the field |
| ABL163A321 · HL7210 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 36,000 ft | 413 kt | 126 nmW of the field |
| JAL725B763 · JA616J | JakartaWIII / CGK | 36,000 ft | 457 kt | 127 nmS of the field |
| SJO423A321 · JA81YA | KitakyushuRJFR / KKJ | 36,000 ft | 434 kt | 132 nmWSW of the field |
| JNA202B38M · HL7215 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 36,000 ft | 422 kt | 159 nmW of the field |
| AUA26B772 · OE-LPE | ViennaLOWW / VIE | 28,775 ft | 448 kt | 173 nmW of the field |
| ESR606B38M · HL8541 | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 36,000 ft | 420 kt | 206 nmW of the field |
| GIA881A333 · PK-GPU | Kuta, BadungWADD / DPS | 38,000 ft | 463 kt | 233 nmSSW of the field |
| JNA222B738 · HL8242 | RKPE | 34,000 ft | 432 kt | 253 nmW of the field |
| THA641A359 · HS-THC | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 40,000 ft | 501 kt | 281 nmSW of the field |
| APJ565A320 · JA821P | SapporoRJCC / CTS | 33,000 ft | 441 kt | 303 nmN of the field |
| FDX169B77L · N863FD | OsakaRJBB / KIX | 36,000 ft | 490 kt | 332 nmSW of the field |
| JJP507A320 · JA10JJ | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | 34,550 ft | 445 kt | 409 nmW of the field |
| APJ355A320 · JA12VA | FukuokaRJFF / FUK | 200 ft | 150 kt | 508 nmWSW of the field |
| ANA8475B763 · JA602F | SeoulRKSI / ICN | 24,000 ft | 449 kt | 584 nmW of the field |
About Tokyo Narita
- ICAO codeRJAA
- IATA codeNRT
- ServesNarita
- RegionChiba, Japan
- Coordinates35.769°N, 140.389°E
Narita sits well east of Tokyo, inland on the Chiba peninsula. It carries a large share of the region's long-haul and freight traffic, so the aircraft here average larger and travel further than Haneda's. Its distance from the city is the reason it exists in the form it does, and the reason the two airports have never quite settled into a stable division of work.
The Pacific departures are the thing to follow. Aircraft leaving eastbound for North America climb out over the ocean and fade within an hour, then reappear off the American coast many hours later on someone else's receiver.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
NRT 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.
RJAA is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, RJ, marks
Japan, 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 Narita 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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