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Notable Aircraft at BHX Right Now

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

BHX Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Birmingham 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 BHX Right Now

10 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 17:37 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
5
Ryanair
3
British Airways
1
Easyjet Uk
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

ATR-72-600 leads the BHX pattern with 3 aircraft right now, followed by BOEING 737 MAX 8 at 2. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 17:37 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

3
AT76
ATR-72-600
2
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
P28S
PIPER PA-28R-201T
1
ULAC
1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
A20N
AIRBUS A-320neo
1
A319
AIRBUS A-319

About Birmingham Airport

BHX's busiest nonstop destination is CDG, at 165 flights a week. 303 scheduled destinations overall, served by 66 airlines. Based in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Elevation
327ft
Routes
303
Airlines
66
Busiest Route
BHX → CDG
165x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the BHX 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
EAG36B AT76 325 117kt 1nm 7754
EAI74G AT76 1,625 145kt 5nm 7737
FRFR 3765 B38M 8,200 299kt 10nm 6357
EAG48B AT76 4,000 162kt 14nm 6225
FRFR 1VW B738 23,625 374kt 14nm 5265
BABA 38DB A20N 19,450 335kt 14nm 7651
U2U2 924D A319 26,875 423kt 20nm 7730
GCLBN ULAC 1,950 59kt 22nm 7000
FRFR 90XP B38M 8,875 247kt 22nm 6604
GSABA P28S 5,725 128kt 25nm 1177

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