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Notable Aircraft at PPQ Right Now

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

PPQ Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Paraparaumu 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 PPQ Right Now

4 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 20:01 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Air New Zealand
4
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

ATR-72-600 leads the PPQ pattern with 2 aircraft right now, followed by AIRBUS A-320 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 20:01 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

2
AT76
ATR-72-600
1
A320
AIRBUS A-320
1
DH8C
DE HAVILLAND DHC-8-300 Dash 8

About Paraparaumu Airport

PPQ's busiest nonstop destination is WAG, at 2 flights a week. 2 scheduled destinations overall, served by 1 airline.

Elevation
22ft
Routes
2
Airlines
1
Busiest Route
PPQ → WAG
2x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the PPQ 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
NZNZ 190L DH8C 3,150 130kt 17nm 5543
NZNZ 410 A320 22,150 429kt 19nm 5564
NZNZ 883M AT76 15,175 256kt 19nm 5557
NZNZ 829M AT76 1,075 84kt 23nm 5550

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