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Notable Aircraft at IOW Right Now

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

IOW Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Iowa City Municipal 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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No flight data available.

Top Airlines at IOW Right Now

7 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 14:20 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
4
American Airlines
1
Delta Air Lines
1
Sun Country Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

CESSNA 560XL Citation XLS and AIRBUS A-319 are tied at the top of the IOW 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 14:20 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
C56X
CESSNA 560XL Citation XLS
1
A319
AIRBUS A-319
1
A321
AIRBUS A-321
1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
PC12
PILATUS PC-12
1
F260
AERMACCHI SF-260
1
Unresolved
Unresolved

About Iowa City Municipal Airport

IOW's busiest nonstop destination is FSD, at 1 flights a week. 9 scheduled destinations overall, served by 7 airlines. Based in Iowa City.

Elevation
668ft
Routes
9
Airlines
7
Busiest Route
IOW → FSD
1x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the IOW 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
SYSY 343 B738 37,000 464kt 10nm 2641
N260FS F260 6,475 101kt 14nm 6524
DLDL 2960 A321 36,000 435kt 15nm 2034
N781AC 3,400 112kt 15nm 3534
AAAA 2154 A319 38,025 444kt 19nm 4161
N97VS C56X 2,625 157kt 24nm 2465
N221DE PC12 27,500 300kt 25nm 1333

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