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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

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DTW

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) is Michigan's primary gateway and one of the Midwest's most connected hubs, routing Delta Air Lines and SkyTeam traffic across North America, Europe, and Asia. This metal print captures that reach, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Every flight path is colorized by altitude, and the palette is yours to choose.

This print visualizes all 5,710 flights recorded February 24 through March 2, 2026, on the 24th anniversary of the McNamara Terminal's opening day. Printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel, it records a specific week in DTW's history in permanent, vivid detail.

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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

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) is Michigan's primary gateway and one of the Midwest's most connected hubs, routing Delta Air Lines and SkyTeam traffic across North America, Europe, and Asia. This metal print captures that reach, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Every flight path is colorized by altitude, and the palette is yours to choose.

This print visualizes all 5,710 flights recorded February 24 through March 2, 2026, on the 24th anniversary of the McNamara Terminal's opening day. Printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel, it records a specific week in DTW's history in permanent, vivid detail.

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 7 days.

5,710

Total Flights

1,154

Unique Aircraft

4,641,084

ADS-B Points

DTW logged 5,710 flights across seven days from February 24 through March 2, 2026, averaging 816 flights per day and 34 per hour around the clock. Arrivals and departures split almost evenly, with 2,853 arrivals and 2,857 departures across 1,154 unique aircraft. The busiest single day was February 27, with 862 movements. Thursday and Friday both cleared 840 flights, while Tuesday the 24th was the lightest day at 757. The 6 p.m. hour (EST) was the peak of the entire week, with 440 total movements, 316 of them arrivals. Morning departures clustered heavily between 9 and 11 a.m., with the 10 a.m. hour producing 284 outbound flights against only 106 arrivals. Late-night traffic from 10 p.m. onward ran departure-heavy as well, with 231 departures in the 10 p.m. hour alone. Chicago O'Hare was the top connection by a clear margin at 211 combined movements, followed by Atlanta at 173 and Orlando at 166. LaGuardia, Fort Lauderdale, Charlotte, Newark, Tampa, Reagan National, and Philadelphia each had between 114 and 139 weekly movements. Approach and departure tracks both favored southerly and westerly headings. South was the top direction for both arrivals (503) and departures (530), with west second in each case. Northern approaches were rare, with N and NNE together accounting for just 30 arrivals. Altitude data across more than 4.6 million ADS-B position points shows a mean of roughly 15,900 feet, reflecting the heavy mix of short-haul routes in the traffic set. The 35,000 to 36,000-foot band was the single most common cruise altitude by position count. The highest-recorded flight, tail number N924QS, reached 46,225 feet on a departure to Pompano Beach Airpark. The longest flight in the dataset covered 3,441 nautical miles and lasted just over six and a half hours. Aircraft registered in the United States made up 1,123 of the 1,154 unique aircraft observed, with small numbers from Mexico, Canada, Germany, France, Turkey, and Jordan accounting for the remainder.

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What SkyPath Customers Say

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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

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport opened on September 4, 1930, as Wayne County Airport, a modest airfield in Romulus, Michigan, built to carry U.S. airmail. During World War II, the U.S. Army assumed control and renamed it Romulus Army Air Field, using it as a staging base for ferrying military aircraft to Europe. Wayne County reclaimed the airport in 1947, expanded it significantly, and by 1958 had renamed it Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, the name it carries today.

The airport's hub identity took shape in the 1980s, when Republic Airlines established a hub there, later absorbed by Northwest Airlines following their 1986 merger. Northwest's presence drove the most consequential chapter in the airport's history: the construction of the Edward H. McNamara Terminal. Opened on February 24, 2002, the $1.2 billion midfield facility was designed by SmithGroup and was the first major airport terminal in the United States to open after the September 11 attacks. Its Concourse A stretches nearly 4,900 feet and features a fully enclosed automated people mover, the first of its kind installed inside an airport concourse anywhere in the world. When Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines in 2008-2010, DTW became Delta's second-largest U.S. hub. A second modern terminal, now called the Warren Cleage Evans Terminal, opened in 2008 to consolidate non-SkyTeam carriers.

Today DTW operates 6 runways across roughly 4,850 acres, about 18 miles southwest of downtown Detroit. It is Michigan's busiest airport by a wide margin, connecting the Motor City, Ann Arbor, and the broader Great Lakes region to more than 140 nonstop destinations. Delta and its SkyTeam partners, including Air France and Aeromexico, dominate the McNamara Terminal, while the Evans Terminal serves carriers such as American, United, and Southwest. The airport's geographic position, between the dense eastern U.S. corridor and the upper Midwest, makes it a natural connecting point for transatlantic and transpacific routings.