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Notable Aircraft at YQT Right Now

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

YQT Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Thunder Bay 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 YQT Right Now

6 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 17:53 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Unknown
5
Bearskin Lake Air Service Limited
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

CESSNA 172 Skyhawk leads the YQT pattern with 3 aircraft right now, followed by SWEARINGEN Metro 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 17:53 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

3
C172
CESSNA 172 Skyhawk
2
SW4
SWEARINGEN Metro
1
PC12
PILATUS PC-12

About Thunder Bay International Airport

YQT's busiest nonstop destination is YYZ, at 73 flights a week. 119 scheduled destinations overall, served by 39 airlines. Based in Thunder Bay.

Elevation
653ft
Routes
119
Airlines
39
Busiest Route
YQT → YYZ
73x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the YQT 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
CFWAF PC12 700 96kt 0nm 7123
CFZLW C172 1,200 73kt 2nm 4416
CFNYX C172 2,550 104kt 5nm 4433
JVJV 992T SW4 4,850 179kt 6nm 5123
CGZMU C172 1,500 70kt 12nm
PAG590 SW4 7,850 266kt 17nm 4722

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