Where’s my flight?
Type the number off your boarding pass and see exactly where that aircraft is — where it took off, where it is heading, and how high it is flying.
Works with the number on your ticket (WN56, B6 7, BA117), a tail number (N877US), or drag the map to look around.
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How this map works, and what it cannot tell you
What this map shows
Almost every airliner, and a large share of business and general aviation, broadcasts its position continuously over ADS-B — an unencrypted radio signal anyone with a receiver can pick up. Thousands of volunteers run those receivers and pool what they hear. This map is that pool, redrawn every thirty seconds.
Each aircraft reports its own identity, position, altitude and speed. Where the callsign belongs to a known airline we name the carrier and link to its page; where it is a registration like N877US, the aircraft is privately operated and there is no airline to name.
What it does not show
Coverage follows receivers, which follow people. Mid-ocean, over the poles and across sparsely populated interiors there is often nobody listening, and aircraft simply vanish from the map until they are back in range — they have not disappeared, we have just stopped hearing them. Some military and privately-blocked aircraft do not appear at all.
Positions here are for general interest. They are not a flight-planning tool and must not be used for navigation.