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Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

Museum-quality gloss aluminum · fade-resistant · ready to hang.

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

Museum-quality gloss aluminum · fade-resistant · ready to hang.

Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is American Airlines' second-largest hub and one of the most operationally active airports in the world. It sits at the center of connections between the Southeast, the broader U.S. network, and destinations across the Atlantic. This metal print captures that reach in raw data form, built from ADS-B flight tracking records. Each flight path is colorized by altitude, rendered across whichever palette you choose.

This print visualizes all 5,137 flights recorded from May 17-20, 2026, the 89th anniversary of Eastern Air Lines' first flight into Charlotte Municipal Airport on May 17, 1937. Every track is drawn from verified ADS-B data, producing a piece of aviation wall art that ties one of aviation's most active hubs to the exact weekend its history began.

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  • Gloss aluminum print, float-mount hardware pre-installed
  • Companion 8×8 flight-report print — the airport's routes, aircraft, and traffic stats on archival matte fine-art paper

Inferno · Dark · 8×12″

$119

Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is American Airlines' second-largest hub and one of the most operationally active airports in the world. It sits at the center of connections between the Southeast, the broader U.S. network, and destinations across the Atlantic. This metal print captures that reach in raw data form, built from ADS-B flight tracking records. Each flight path is colorized by altitude, rendered across whichever palette you choose.

This print visualizes all 5,137 flights recorded from May 17-20, 2026, the 89th anniversary of Eastern Air Lines' first flight into Charlotte Municipal Airport on May 17, 1937. Every track is drawn from verified ADS-B data, producing a piece of aviation wall art that ties one of aviation's most active hubs to the exact weekend its history began.

Seth, founder of SkyPath Studio

Made by Seth. Three generations of pilots, one artist.

My grandfather flew a Mooney across the country interviewing farmers as a journalist. My father and uncle fly private. My brother flies as a First Officer for United Airlines. I stayed on the ground. I turn flight data into art.

Aluminum print showing flight path visualization
Premium Material

Why Aluminum

Our prints are produced on museum-quality aluminum with a high-gloss finish, the same material professional galleries use.

Dye-Sublimated

Colors infused directly into the aluminum surface, not printed on top.

Deep Blacks, Saturated Color

High-gloss finish holds sharp contrast across the altitude gradients.

Archival Durability

Scratch-resistant, waterproof, and fade-resistant for decades of display.

Modern Float Mount

Included mounting hardware creates a sleek 3/4" float off the wall.

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Behind the Print

Every ADS-B-tracked flight visualized in this print, captured over 4 days.

5,137

Total Flights

1,034

Unique Aircraft

3,447,327

ADS-B Points

Charlotte Douglas logged 5,137 flights across four days in May 2026, with 1,034 unique aircraft tracked and an average of 53.5 flights per hour around the clock. Arrivals outnumbered departures 2,755 to 2,382. The busiest single day was May 18, with 1,518 movements. May 17 ran lighter at 809, reflecting a partial capture window. The peak hour across the dataset was 6 PM EDT, which saw 336 total flights, split 180 arrivals and 156 departures. The daily rhythm shows a pronounced arrival surge in the early morning, with hours 5 and 6 EDT pulling 102 and 140 arrivals respectively against almost no departures. Departures ramped up through mid-morning and held relatively steady across the afternoon, then spiked sharply in the late evening. Hours 21 through 23 EDT produced 172, 170, and 221 departures, the highest totals of any hours in the day. Approach traffic came predominantly from the northeast, followed by south and west. Departure headings mirrored that distribution closely. Orlando, Atlanta, and Boston were the three busiest routes by combined movements, each recording over 80 flights in the four-day window. Altitude data covers a wide range. The average across all ADS-B position reports was 15,511 feet, and the highest recorded aircraft reached 50,475 feet, arriving from Spirit of St. Louis Airport. The longest tracked leg was 2,230 nautical miles, arriving from Seattle-Tacoma at a peak of 36,600 feet over a 5-hour-plus flight. The shortest was 3.2 nautical miles and under 4 minutes. Of the 1,034 unique aircraft, 1,018 were registered in the United States, with small numbers from Canada, Germany, the UAE, and Mexico.

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What SkyPath Customers Say

5.0

Reviews from customers across our airport print collection.

Great gift to commemorate trip!

We ordered the LHR image (aurora/light) as a gift for our son who is in college and training to be a commercial airline pilot. We had taken a family trip to London and this was the perfect gift for him. He loved the image, and immediately scanned the included QR code to review the flight data that is available to support each map. The quality and delivery timing were exceptional. We will definitely order more!

Nathan
7 days ago

LHR · London Heathrow

Response from SkyPath Studio

Thank you for your review, Nathan! We wish your son the best on his journey to becoming a pilot.

About the Airport

Charlotte Douglas International Airport formally opened on May 17, 1937, as Charlotte Municipal Airport, built with Works Progress Administration funding that made it, at the time, the largest single WPA project in North Carolina. Eastern Air Lines flew the first aircraft into the new field that opening day, launching twice-daily commercial service almost immediately. The airport briefly fell under U.S. Army Air Force control during World War II, operating as Morris Field before returning to municipal ownership in 1946. In 1954, a new passenger terminal opened and the facility was renamed Douglas Municipal Airport in honor of Mayor Ben Elbert Douglas Sr., the driving force behind the original project.

The airport's modern identity took shape in 1979, when Piedmont Airlines selected Charlotte as its hub following airline deregulation. A new 325,000-square-foot terminal opened in 1982, and the airport was renamed Charlotte Douglas International. Piedmont expanded aggressively: nonstop transcontinental service began in 1984, and London service launched in 1987. After Piedmont was acquired by USAir in 1989 and USAir eventually merged with American Airlines in 2013, Charlotte became American's second-largest hub. The carrier now operates roughly 90% of all flights at the airport.

CLT sits about 6 miles west of Uptown Charlotte, a position that amplifies its role as the primary gateway for the entire Carolinas region. The airport's single terminal with 5 walkable concourses and 124 gates handles traffic without the trains or inter-terminal shuttles required at comparable hubs. In 2024, the airport logged 58.8 million passengers and ranked sixth globally for aircraft operations, with 596,583 takeoffs and landings recorded that year.