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Notable Aircraft at SCH Right Now

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

Widebody
AF 064
Air France
AIRBUS A-350-900 · F-HTYI

SCH Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Schenectady County 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 SCH Right Now

6 aircraft tracked

Unknown
3
United Parcel Service Company
1
Air France
1
Piedmont Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 757-200 and SIKORSKY UH-60 Black Hawk are tied at the top of the SCH 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
B752
BOEING 757-200
1
H60
SIKORSKY UH-60 Black Hawk
1
A359
AIRBUS A-350-900
1
E145
EMBRAER ERJ-145
1
P28A
PIPER PA-28-140/150/160/180
1
H25B
HAWKER BEECHCRAFT Hawker 750/850

About Schenectady County Airport

SCH's busiest nonstop destination is LEX, at 1 flights a week. 6 scheduled destinations overall, served by 4 airlines. Based in Schenectady.

Elevation
378ft
Routes
6
Airlines
4
Busiest Route
SCH → LEX
1x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the SCH 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
G21183 H60 2,025 119kt 6nm 4356
PTPT 5850 E145 2,150 166kt 6nm 1176
5X5X 1123 B752 6,675 257kt 10nm 1326
AFAF 064 A359 19,175 342kt 11nm 2407
N263SN H25B 26,000 369kt 12nm 1440
N67WA P28A 3,150 127kt 15nm 4340

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