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Notable Aircraft at SOF Right Now

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

SOF Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Sofia 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 SOF Right Now

5 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 05:35 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Wizz Air Malta
1
Gunes Ekspres Havacilik
1
Aegean Airlines
1
Bulgaria Air
1
Air Baltic Corporation
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

AIRBUS A220-300 leads the SOF pattern with 2 aircraft right now, followed by AIRBUS A-321 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 05:35 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

2
BCS3
AIRBUS A220-300
1
A321
AIRBUS A-321
1
B738
BOEING 737-800
1
A21N
AIRBUS A-321neo

About Sofia Airport

SOF's busiest nonstop destination is FRA, at 76 flights a week. 202 scheduled destinations overall, served by 52 airlines. Based in Sofia.

Elevation
1,742ft
Routes
202
Airlines
52
Busiest Route
SOF → FRA
76x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the SOF 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
XQXQ 34J B738 4,250 190kt 7nm 6347
FBFB 971 BCS3 10,275 303kt 12nm 1170
BTBT 9ZW BCS3 37,000 405kt 12nm 4525
WMT9SN A321 33,525 484kt 13nm 5516
A3A3 9TP A21N 28,350 460kt 20nm 1345

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