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Notable Aircraft at MKE Right Now

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

MKE Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at General Mitchell 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 MKE Right Now

9 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 19:25 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
4
Southwest Airlines
3
Republic Airlines
1
Sky West Aviation
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737 MAX 8 leads the MKE pattern with 2 aircraft right now, followed by BEECH 35 Bonanza at 1. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 19:25 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

2
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
BE35
BEECH 35 Bonanza
1
BE58
BEECH 58 Baron
1
C441
CESSNA 441 Conquest
1
E50P
EMBRAER EMB-500 Phenom 100
1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
E75L
EMBRAER ERJ-170-200 (long wing)
1
CRJ7
BOMBARDIER Regional Jet CRJ-700

About General Mitchell International Airport

MKE's busiest nonstop destination is ORD, at 371 flights a week. 721 scheduled destinations overall, served by 113 airlines. Based in Milwaukee.

Elevation
723ft
Routes
721
Airlines
113
Busiest Route
MKE → ORD
371x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the MKE 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
N18YP E50P 2,150 148kt 6nm 3651
N441MK C441 22,000 248kt 13nm 2324
YXYX 3686 E75L 7,925 314kt 16nm 6217
OOOO 6368 CRJ7 23,000 442kt 19nm 7261
N3713Q BE35 1,875 110kt 19nm 1612
WNWN 225 B38M 4,700 272kt 20nm 3646
WNWN 2496 B738 11,450 375kt 20nm 3210
N3664G BE58 3,675 162kt 21nm 5377
WNWN 2878 B38M 14,150 342kt 22nm 3240

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