Flight Report

This page presents ADS-B radar data captured at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT/KCLT) on January 1, 2026, the 44th anniversary of the airport's renaming. Over the course of that single day, 1,445 total flight operations were recorded across 413 unique aircraft, with 686 arrivals, 693 departures, and 66 touch-and-gos. Traffic ran continuously from 00:00 through 23:59 EST. The busiest hour was 09:00, which logged 103 flights, and the daily average held at 60.2 flights per hour. The overnight hours between 01:00 and 06:00 were heavily arrival-weighted, while the 18:00 and 23:00 hours saw some of the highest departure concentrations of the day, with 71 and 77 departures respectively. The top route by combined operations was Chicago O'Hare (ORD) with 26 movements, followed by Miami (MIA) and Orlando (MCO) tied at 23 each. Philadelphia (PHL) came in at 22, and Detroit (DTW) at 20. The nearest-neighbor route in the dataset connected to Rock Hill / York County Airport (RKH), just 8.7 nautical miles away and completed in 3.4 minutes. The longest recorded leg covered 3,352.6 nautical miles over 542.8 minutes, departing toward Hickory Regional Airport (HKY) as the connected endpoint. Approach directions were led by NE (112 counts) and S (96), with departures similarly distributed toward NE (105) and S (104). Altitude data was drawn from 873,238 ADS-B position points. The average recorded altitude across all points was 15,353 feet, and the single highest observed altitude was 46,350 feet, reached by N29SB on an arrival from Kerrville / Kerr County Airport (ERV). The bulk of position reports fell in the 1,000 to 6,000 foot range, consistent with the volume of climb and descent traffic near the airport. Cruise-level concentrations were visible between 30,000 and 35,000 feet. Of the 413 unique aircraft, 411 were registered in the United States, with one each from Germany and Canada.