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Notable Aircraft at HKY Right Now

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

HKY Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Hickory Regional 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 HKY Right Now

8 aircraft tracked

Unknown
5
American Airlines
3
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BEECHCRAFT Super King Air 350 and AIRBUS A-321 are tied at the top of the HKY pattern with 2 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

2
B350
BEECHCRAFT Super King Air 350
2
A321
AIRBUS A-321
1
A21N
AIRBUS A-321neo
1
P28A
PIPER PA-28-140/150/160/180
1
GALX
GULFSTREAM G200
1
CRJ9
BOMBARDIER Regional Jet CRJ-900

About Hickory Regional Airport

HKY's busiest nonstop destination is PBI, at 2 flights a week. 9 scheduled destinations overall, served by 5 airlines. Based in Hickory.

Elevation
1,190ft
Routes
9
Airlines
5
Busiest Route
HKY → PBI
2x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the HKY 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
AAAA 1707 A321 17,050 377kt 13nm 3301
JIA5585 CRJ9 22,975 418kt 15nm 3133
VET350 B350 27,000 323kt 17nm 3542
AAAA 2615 A21N 27,300 405kt 17nm 3107
N723RH GALX 37,000 542kt 20nm 2021
N357LP B350 31,000 338kt 21nm 3102
AAAA 2760 A321 5,025 269kt 21nm 7050
N38603 P28A 7,000 95kt 24nm 1725

Frequently Asked Questions

Aircraft positions refresh every 5 seconds. ADS-B is GPS-accurate, so what you see is within about 30 meters of the aircraft's real position.

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 HKY radar radius but not landing or departing here. Passing through en route to another airport. We flag them so the numbers for HKY traffic actually reflect HKY 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. Aircraft refresh every 5 to 10 seconds. When a signal drops (mountain terrain, certain oceanic corridors), the marker holds the last-known position instead of disappearing.