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.