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London Gatwick Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

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LGW

London Gatwick Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

London Gatwick Airport (LGW) is the UK's second-busiest airport and the world's busiest single-runway operation, connecting southern England and Greater London to more than 200 destinations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond. This metal print maps that reach precisely, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Each flight path is colorized by altitude, and the palette is yours to choose.

This print visualizes all 5,337 flights recorded across May 17-23, 2026, the 90th anniversary week of the first scheduled departure from the Beehive, the world's first circular airport terminal. Printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel, it is a piece of aviation wall art anchored to one of the defining dates in British aviation history.

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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

London Gatwick Airport (LGW) is the UK's second-busiest airport and the world's busiest single-runway operation, connecting southern England and Greater London to more than 200 destinations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond. This metal print maps that reach precisely, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Each flight path is colorized by altitude, and the palette is yours to choose.

This print visualizes all 5,337 flights recorded across May 17-23, 2026, the 90th anniversary week of the first scheduled departure from the Beehive, the world's first circular airport terminal. Printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel, it is a piece of aviation wall art anchored to one of the defining dates in British aviation history.

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.

5,337

Total Flights

734

Unique Aircraft

4,721,479

ADS-B Points

London Gatwick recorded 5,337 flights across seven days in May 2026, averaging 762 movements per day and 31.8 per hour across 734 unique aircraft. Arrivals and departures split almost evenly: 2,684 inbound and 2,653 outbound, with an additional 315 ground operations captured. The busiest single day was 22 May with 811 total movements, while the quietest was 20 May at 679. Within the daily cycle, the 08:00 BST hour carried the heaviest load at 354 movements, with departures (220) outnumbering arrivals (134) by a wide margin. Between 00:00 and 05:00, nearly all movements were arrivals, with departures effectively absent until 06:00. The route picture was dominated by Mediterranean and Iberian destinations. Barcelona led all pairings with 182 combined movements, followed by Málaga (155), Palma de Mallorca (116), Dublin (115), and Faro (111). Approach and departure tracks aligned closely, with ESE as the most frequent direction for both arrivals (617) and departures (589), followed by SSW and SE. Altitude data captured across nearly 4.7 million ADS-B position points shows a strong concentration in the 36,000 to 39,000 foot band, where cruising traffic peaks. The average groundspeed across all flights was 292 knots, with a maximum of 683.8 knots recorded. Average flight distance was 799.8 nautical miles over 133.5 minutes. The shortest logged arrival covered just 6.8 nautical miles from Redhill Aerodrome, while the longest tracked 6,613 nautical miles and reached 38,350 feet, operated by a Chinese-registered aircraft (B-226Q). The highest altitude recorded was 44,575 feet, reached by G-TUIH on a flight from Ibiza.

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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

London Gatwick Airport traces its commercial roots to May 17, 1936, when a Jersey Airways de Havilland DH.86 became the first scheduled departure from the Beehive, the world's first circular airport terminal, designed by architects Hoar, Marlow and Lovett to the concept of owner Morris Jackaman. The Beehive integrated a direct subway link to Gatwick railway station, allowing passengers to travel from London Victoria to their aircraft without stepping outside. That connection between air and rail has remained central to the airport's identity ever since. The facility was requisitioned during the Second World War as RAF Gatwick, returning to civilian use in 1946. A comprehensive reconstruction followed: the airport closed in 1956 and reopened on June 9, 1958, officially inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II. The rebuilt terminal, now the South Terminal, was among the world's first enclosed pier-based facilities, and the first airport to fully integrate air, rail, and road access in a single complex.

Situated 30 miles south of central London in West Sussex, near the town of Crawley, LGW is the UK's second-busiest airport. In 2024 it handled 43.2 million passengers, with a record 57 carriers operating from its 2 terminals that year. The airport operates on a single active main runway of 3,316 metres, a constraint that has paradoxically become a point of distinction: it is widely recognised as the world's busiest single-runway airport. EasyJet is its largest operator by seat capacity, using the North Terminal as its primary base, while British Airways operates short-haul services from the South Terminal. Long-haul carriers including Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Norse Atlantic have established footholds at LGW, drawn by lower slot costs and access to London's southern catchment. A Northern Runway development project, granted planning approval in September 2025, aims to bring a second runway into routine use and push annual capacity toward 75 million passengers.