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Notable Aircraft at CBR Right Now

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

CBR Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Canberra 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 CBR Right Now

2 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 09:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Qantas Airways Limited
1
Qantaslink
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-800 and DE HAVILLAND DHC-8-400 Dash 8 are tied at the top of the CBR 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 09:38 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
DH8D
DE HAVILLAND DHC-8-400 Dash 8

About Canberra Airport

CBR's busiest nonstop destination is SYD, at 446 flights a week. 68 scheduled destinations overall, served by 23 airlines. Based in Canberra.

Elevation
1,886ft
Routes
68
Airlines
23
Busiest Route
CBR → SYD
446x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the CBR 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
QLK209D DH8D 18,000 353kt 16nm 3667
QFQF 484 B738 39,000 491kt 21nm 3604

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