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Melbourne Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

From $119

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MEL

Melbourne Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

Melbourne Airport (MEL) is Australia's second busiest airport and Victoria's primary international gateway, connecting Melbourne to destinations across Asia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe around the clock. This metal print captures that reach in precise detail, drawn from ADS-B flight tracking data. Each path is colorized by altitude across your chosen palette.

This print visualizes all 4,537 flights recorded from 1-7 July 2025, the 55th anniversary of the day Prime Minister John Gorton inaugurated MEL on 1 July 1970. Every flight captured, every climb and descent rendered: a piece of aviation wall art documenting exactly where this airport stood at 55 years old.

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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

Melbourne Airport (MEL) is Australia's second busiest airport and Victoria's primary international gateway, connecting Melbourne to destinations across Asia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe around the clock. This metal print captures that reach in precise detail, drawn from ADS-B flight tracking data. Each path is colorized by altitude across your chosen palette.

This print visualizes all 4,537 flights recorded from 1-7 July 2025, the 55th anniversary of the day Prime Minister John Gorton inaugurated MEL on 1 July 1970. Every flight captured, every climb and descent rendered: a piece of aviation wall art documenting exactly where this airport stood at 55 years old.

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.

4,537

Total Flights

579

Unique Aircraft

4,286,040

ADS-B Points

Melbourne Airport recorded 4,537 flights across seven days from 1 to 7 July 2025, averaging 648 movements per day and 27 per hour around the clock. Arrivals and departures were nearly balanced, with 2,270 arrivals and 2,267 departures across 579 unique aircraft. Friday 4 July was the busiest single day at 724 movements. The 07:00 hour was the peak across the week, with 314 total movements, 176 of them arrivals. Traffic dropped sharply after midnight, bottoming out at 20 movements in the 01:00 hour, before gradually building again from 04:00 onward. Sydney dominated the route map. The MEL-SYD pairing accounted for 877 movements, nearly double the next busiest corridor to Brisbane at 497. Adelaide, Gold Coast, and Hobart rounded out the top five domestic routes. Approaches came predominantly from the northeast, accounting for 952 of the recorded approach tracks, with WNW and SSE the next most common. Departures followed a similar northeast bias at 976 tracks in that direction. ADS-B position data covered 4,286,040 individual points. Average cruise altitudes clustered heavily between 35,000 and 38,000 feet, with the 37,000-38,000 foot band the most populated. The peak recorded altitude was 47,425 feet, logged by VH-T29, an Australian-registered aircraft. The longest flight by distance was an arrival by Qatari-registered A7-BAF, covering 1,714.9 nautical miles over 212.8 minutes. Australian-registered aircraft made up 341 of the 579 unique aircraft, with Chinese, Singaporean, and New Zealand registrations the next most represented.

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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

Melbourne Airport opened on 1 July 1970, when Prime Minister John Gorton inaugurated international operations at Tullamarine, ending Essendon Airport's nearly two-decade run as Melbourne's international gateway. Domestic flights followed on 26 June 1971, and in its inaugural year the airport handled six international airlines and 155,275 international passengers. The planning that made it possible dated back to 1958, when a government panel set out to find a replacement for Essendon, a site hemmed in by residential development and unable to accommodate the emerging generation of jet aircraft.

Situated roughly 22 kilometres northwest of Melbourne's city centre, the airport operates without a curfew and is Australia's busiest 24-hour airport, handling over 36 million passengers in 2025. That around-the-clock status gives MEL a distinctive character in the Australian network: freight operations fill the early morning hours while passenger banks dominate the daylight schedule. The Melbourne-Sydney route is among the busiest air corridors in the Asia-Pacific region. Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar all maintain significant bases here, with international carriers including Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, and Air New Zealand operating lounges in the international terminal.

The airport's four-terminal layout (one international terminal, 2 standard domestic terminals, and a budget domestic terminal) evolved gradually from the original 3-terminal configuration that opened in 1970. A $330 million expansion of the international terminal was completed in 2011, adding a satellite concourse with floor-to-ceiling runway views. A third runway, approved by the Federal Government in September 2024 and positioned 1.3 kilometres west of the existing north-south runway, is targeted for completion in 2031. One enduring gap: despite proposals stretching back to the airport's opening year, MEL still has no passenger rail link to the city centre.