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Notable Aircraft at HOU Right Now

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

HOU Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at William P. Hobby 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 HOU Right Now

2 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 06:15 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Southwest Airlines
1
Unknown
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-800 and CESSNA 208 Caravan are tied at the top of the HOU 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 06:15 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
C208
CESSNA 208 Caravan

About William P. Hobby Airport

HOU's busiest nonstop destination is DAL, at 191 flights a week. 1,574 scheduled destinations overall, served by 198 airlines. Based in Houston.

Elevation
46ft
Routes
1574
Airlines
198
Busiest Route
HOU → DAL
191x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the HOU 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
N82RF C208 1,875 120kt 21nm 0451
WNWN 4350 B738 4,775 263kt 25nm 2641

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