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Notable Aircraft at BCB Right Now

Widebodies, super-heavies, military traffic, and emergency squawks in the BCB pattern right now. If there's anything worth noticing, it surfaces here first.

BCB Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport with gate, terminal, and current status. Separate from the live radar above, which shows every aircraft in the sky whether or not it's on a public schedule.

Status Airline Flight Destination Sched Updated Gate
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Top Airlines at BCB Right Now

4 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 16:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
2
Southwest Airlines
1
Piedmont Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

CESSNA T206 Turbo Stationair and BOEING 737-700 are tied at the top of the BCB pattern with 1 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 16:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
T206
CESSNA T206 Turbo Stationair
1
B737
BOEING 737-700
1
BE58
BEECH 58 Baron
1
E145
EMBRAER ERJ-145

About Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport

BCB's busiest nonstop destination is MKE, at 1 flights a week. 15 scheduled destinations overall, served by 7 airlines. Based in Blacksburg.

Elevation
2,132ft
Routes
15
Airlines
7
Busiest Route
BCB → MKE
1x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the BCB radar. Sort by any column. Click a row to open its tracker page with route arc, altitude profile, and live telemetry.

Callsign Route Type Dir Alt Speed Dist Squawk
N148DW T206 2,375 80kt 15nm 1200
PTPT 6015 E145 5,075 267kt 17nm 2436
WNWN 1211 B737 27,525 463kt 18nm 7624
GTX512 BE58 8,800 196kt 19nm 1165

Frequently Asked Questions

Aircraft positions refresh every few minutes. ADS-B is GPS-accurate, so what you see is within about 30 meters of the aircraft's position at broadcast time.

Altitude. Red on the ground, through green, teal, and blue for mid-altitudes, into violet above 40,000 feet. At a glance you can tell who just took off, who is climbing through the pattern, and who is cruising overhead.

They are inside the BCB radar radius but not landing or departing here. Passing through en route to another airport. We flag them so the numbers for BCB traffic actually reflect BCB traffic.

Click any aircraft on the map. You get its track line across the region and an altitude profile showing the climb, cruise, and descent.

A pulsing red circle indicates an emergency squawk: 7500 (hijack), 7600 (comm failure), or 7700 (general emergency). These are legally-required codes pilots set when something is wrong.

The radar shows live aircraft positions. Gate, terminal, and schedule status sit in the Board section above this one.

GPS-accurate via ADS-B, typically within 30 meters horizontally. Positions refresh every few minutes. When a signal drops (mountain terrain, certain oceanic corridors), the marker holds the last-known position instead of disappearing.