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Notable Aircraft at YZR Right Now

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

YZR Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Chris Hadfield 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 YZR Right Now

2 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 11:08 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

United Airlines
1
Porter Airlines
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737 MAX 9 and EMBRAER ERJ-190-400 are tied at the top of the YZR pattern with 1 aircraft each. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 11:08 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

1
B39M
BOEING 737 MAX 9
1
E295
EMBRAER ERJ-190-400

About Chris Hadfield Airport

YZR's busiest nonstop destination is YYZ, at 8 flights a week. 3 scheduled destinations overall, served by 2 airlines. Based in Sarnia.

Elevation
594ft
Routes
3
Airlines
2
Busiest Route
YZR → YYZ
8x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the YZR 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
UAUA 215 B39M 36,000 430kt 19nm 3550
PDPD 656 E295 31,000 452kt 22nm 1013

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