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Notable Aircraft at SMF Right Now

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

SMF Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Sacramento 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 SMF Right Now

20 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 13:46 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
13
Alaska Airlines
2
Empire Airlines
2
Southwest Airlines
2
American Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

CESSNA 208 Caravan leads the SMF pattern with 4 aircraft right now, followed by CESSNA 172 Skyhawk at 3. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 13:46 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

4
C208
CESSNA 208 Caravan
3
C172
CESSNA 172 Skyhawk
2
AT5T
AIR TRACTOR AT-504
1
B739
BOEING 737-900
1
B39M
BOEING 737 MAX 9
1
C152
CESSNA 152
1
AT6T
AIR TRACTOR AT-602
1
B06
BELL 206 JetRanger
1
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
LJ35
LEARJET 35
1
B407
BELL 407
1
B737
BOEING 737-700
1
A321
AIRBUS A-321
1
C182
CESSNA 182 Skylane

About Sacramento International Airport

SMF's busiest nonstop destination is LAX, at 513 flights a week. 304 scheduled destinations overall, served by 80 airlines. Based in Sacramento.

Elevation
27ft
Routes
304
Airlines
80
Busiest Route
SMF → LAX
513x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the SMF 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
XA-ALV LJ35 350 121kt 2nm 2475
EMEM 8655 C208 1,025 109kt 2nm 3671
N512MP AT5T 100 100kt 2nm 1200
504HW AT5T 75 127kt 4nm 1200
WNWN 3211 B38M 2,500 184kt 8nm 3553
WNWN 4909 B737 7,425 285kt 10nm 6356
N3546T B407 1,125 133kt 10nm 1200
BXR1462 C208 6,325 146kt 11nm 3673
N1920F C172 225 65kt 12nm 1200
BXR1524 C208 2,300 121kt 12nm 4563
EMEM 8697 C208 4,125 147kt 13nm 4510
CXK448 C172 1,000 89kt 13nm 1200
AAAA 234 A321 20,275 461kt 14nm 1724
N602JH AT6T 300 120kt 14nm 1200
N67405 C152 1,925 87kt 16nm 1200
N277KA B06 125 18nm
N19897 C172 3,000 97kt 19nm 1200
N7578S C182 2,800 111kt 21nm 1200
ASAS 1314 B39M 28,800 436kt 23nm 3672
ASAS 491 B739 22,625 428kt 23nm 6313

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