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Notable Aircraft at WLG Right Now

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

WLG Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Wellington 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 WLG Right Now

6 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 19:12 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Air New Zealand
4
Sogdiana
2
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

ATR-72-600 leads the WLG pattern with 3 aircraft right now, followed by CESSNA 208 Caravan at 2. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 19:12 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

3
AT76
ATR-72-600
2
C208
CESSNA 208 Caravan
1
A320
AIRBUS A-320

About Wellington International Airport

WLG's busiest nonstop destination is AKL, at 471 flights a week. 84 scheduled destinations overall, served by 26 airlines. Based in Wellington.

Elevation
41ft
Routes
84
Airlines
26
Busiest Route
WLG → AKL
471x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the WLG 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
SDA270 C208 5,900 186kt 14nm 5540
NZNZ 807M AT76 24,000 232kt 14nm 5507
NZNZ 327 A320 11,125 314kt 16nm 5551
SDA341 C208 9,700 116kt 17nm 5542
NZNZ 189M AT76 21,975 208kt 17nm 5533
NZNZ 771M AT76 20,250 237kt 20nm 5517

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