Flight Report

This dataset covers two days of ADS-B traffic at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR/KEWR), spanning March 21 through March 22, 2026, the 24th anniversary of the airport's renaming. Over that period, 2,134 total flights were recorded, split nearly evenly between 1,057 arrivals and 1,054 departures, with 23 touch-and-go operations also logged. A total of 713 unique aircraft were tracked, drawn from registrations across 23 countries, with US-registered aircraft accounting for 618 of them. Canada contributed the next largest share at 34 aircraft, followed by smaller counts from the UK, France, Portugal, and others. The dataset comprises over 1.65 million individual ADS-B position points. Traffic ran continuously across all 24 hours, with the overnight period (midnight through 6:00 EDT) averaging well below the daily mean of 44.5 flights per hour. Activity climbed sharply starting at 7:00, reached a secondary cluster through midday, and peaked at 18:00 EDT with 153 movements, 100 of which were departures. The 9:00 hour was the busiest for departures specifically, logging 86. Approach and departure tracks were dominated by the SSW quadrant in both directions, with SSW accounting for 193 approaches and 222 departures, followed by SW and W. Orlando (MCO) was the top route by combined movements with 71 flights, ahead of Atlanta (ATL) at 58 and Chicago O'Hare (ORD) at 49. Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Charlotte, Detroit, Miami, Boston, and Toronto rounded out the top ten. Average leg distance was 806.8 nautical miles, with the shortest tracked arrival covering just 10.8 nm from Linden Airport (LDJ). The longest was an arrival spanning 2,748.9 nm lasting 798 minutes, operated by Canadian-registered C-GVDP. The highest recorded altitude was 48,475 feet, reached by UK-registered VP-CUA on a departure. Cruise altitudes concentrated between 34,000 and 37,000 feet, with the 35,000 to 36,000 foot band logging the highest position count of any 1,000-foot range.