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Notable Aircraft at SJC Right Now

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

SJC Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose 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 SJC Right Now

6 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 13:12 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Southwest Airlines
2
Cobalt Air
1
Delta Air Lines
1
Sky West Aviation
1
American Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737 MAX 8 leads the SJC pattern with 2 aircraft right now, followed by PILATUS PC-12 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 13:12 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

2
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
PC12
PILATUS PC-12
1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
BCS1
AIRBUS A220-100
1
E75L
EMBRAER ERJ-170-200 (long wing)

About Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport

SJC's busiest nonstop destination is LAX, at 396 flights a week. 1,406 scheduled destinations overall, served by 173 airlines. Based in San Jose.

Elevation
62ft
Routes
1406
Airlines
173
Busiest Route
SJC → LAX
396x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the SJC 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
OOOO 6404 E75L 19,325 408kt 8nm 3221
WNWN 3295 B38M 6,250 262kt 9nm 3231
WNWN 1595 B738 24,925 459kt 10nm 3262
DLDL 1314 BCS1 9,800 310kt 15nm 3322
CNS129 PC12 5,000 216kt 17nm 4577
AAAA 1358 B38M 13,625 338kt 17nm 3204

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