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Notable Aircraft at HNL Right Now

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

HNL Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Daniel K. Inouye International 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 HNL Right Now

15 aircraft tracked

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15
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

CESSNA 208 Caravan and CESSNA 172 Skyhawk are tied at the top of the HNL pattern with 3 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

3
C208
CESSNA 208 Caravan
3
C172
CESSNA 172 Skyhawk
3
R44
ROBINSON R-44 Raven
1
SLG2
AIRPLANE FACTORY Sling 2
1
R66
ROBINSON R-66
1
C408
CESSNA 408 SkyCourier
3
Unresolved
Unresolved

About Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

HNL's busiest nonstop destination is LAX, at 426 flights a week. 459 scheduled destinations overall, served by 128 airlines. Based in Honolulu, Oahu.

Elevation
13ft
Routes
459
Airlines
128
Busiest Route
HNL → LAX
426x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the HNL 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
N42PF 1,400 90kt 3nm 1632
N748RH R66 1,400 107kt 3nm 1640
N74808 R44 975 50kt 4nm 1625
N208EE C208 1,700 143kt 5nm 1706
N269ME C172 2,000 95kt 6nm 1636
N96PF SLG2 200 57kt 8nm 1200
N909CS C172 1,400 101kt 8nm 1634
N822F R44 2,500 88kt 8nm 1200
N4230H R44 1,150 80kt 9nm 0261
N116PF 1,375 98kt 10nm 1200
N808PE C172 1,325 96kt 11nm 1200
N485SA C208 3,100 171kt 11nm 1727
N8CA C208 7,875 137kt 15nm 2353
STT821 C408 4,500 215kt 20nm 2313
N46PF 1,900 87kt 20nm 1200

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