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Notable Aircraft at LRU Right Now

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

LRU Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Las Cruces 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 LRU Right Now

2 aircraft tracked

United Airlines
1
Aeroenlaces Nacionales
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-800 and AIRBUS A-321neo are tied at the top of the LRU 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.

1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
A21N
AIRBUS A-321neo

About Las Cruces International Airport

LRU's busiest nonstop destination is ABQ, at 4 flights a week. 8 scheduled destinations overall, served by 5 airlines. Based in Las Cruces.

Elevation
4,456ft
Routes
8
Airlines
5
Busiest Route
LRU → ABQ
4x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the LRU 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
VIV603 A21N 35,025 518kt 4nm 7651
UAUA 2683 B738 41,000 551kt 22nm 2054

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