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Notable Aircraft at BWI Right Now

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

BWI Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall 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 BWI Right Now

9 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 03:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Southwest Airlines
5
Frontier Airlines
1
Delta Air Lines
1
United Airlines
1
Envoy Air
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-700 leads the BWI pattern with 4 aircraft right now, followed by BOEING 737 MAX 8 at 1. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 03:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

4
B737
BOEING 737-700
1
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
A21N
AIRBUS A-321neo
1
A321
AIRBUS A-321
1
B39M
BOEING 737 MAX 9
1
E75L
EMBRAER ERJ-170-200 (long wing)

About Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

BWI's busiest nonstop destination is ATL, at 312 flights a week. 924 scheduled destinations overall, served by 175 airlines. Based in Baltimore.

Elevation
146ft
Routes
924
Airlines
175
Busiest Route
BWI → ATL
312x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the BWI 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
F9F9 4712 A21N 1,675 126kt 5nm 1142
WNWN 411 B737 4,175 227kt 11nm 1421
WNWN 2145 B737 3,150 248kt 11nm 2657
DLDL 2928 A321 4,950 255kt 12nm 5745
WNWN 3977 B737 2,650 173kt 12nm 3743
WNWN 161 B737 9,600 287kt 13nm 4636
MQMQ 4051 E75L 18,175 404kt 15nm 2114
WNWN 768 B38M 4,150 204kt 17nm 7010
UAUA 499 B39M 35,875 505kt 21nm 1617

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