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Notable Aircraft at PAE Right Now

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

PAE Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Seattle Paine Field 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 PAE Right Now

15 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 05:36 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
6
Alaska Airlines
5
Horizon Air Industries
2
United Airlines
1
Southwest Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737-800 and CESSNA 172 Skyhawk are tied at the top of the PAE 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.

Snapshot from 05:36 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

3
B738
BOEING 737-800
3
C172
CESSNA 172 Skyhawk
2
B739
BOEING 737-900
2
E75L
EMBRAER ERJ-170-200 (long wing)
1
B737
BOEING 737-700
1
C152
CESSNA 152
1
C162
CESSNA 162 Skycatcher
1
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
Unresolved
Unresolved

About Seattle Paine Field International Airport

PAE's busiest nonstop destination is SFO, at 50 flights a week. 110 scheduled destinations overall, served by 52 airlines. Based in Everett.

Elevation
606ft
Routes
110
Airlines
52
Busiest Route
PAE → SFO
50x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the PAE 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
QXQX 2189 E75L 725 117kt 2nm 1357
QXQX 2228 E75L 27,650 465kt 4nm 1650
UAUA 1359 B738 23,450 411kt 12nm 7311
ASAS 280 B739 13,000 376kt 14nm 6653
~2ba2e3 400 63kt 15nm
N172HR C172 -25 57kt 16nm 1200
N5344K C172 2,400 99kt 17nm 1200
ASAS 1560 B738 6,450 263kt 18nm 3534
ASAS 498 B739 3,850 241kt 20nm 4636
N6509L C152 -175 56kt 23nm 1200
RFS623 C162 200 55kt 24nm 1200
WNWN 3613 B38M 15,600 406kt 24nm 3552
ASAS 71 B737 12,750 339kt 24nm 6673
N8440X C172 600 74kt 24nm 1200
ASAS 298 B738 1,875 201kt 25nm 6612

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