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San Francisco International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

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SFO

San Francisco International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) sits at the edge of the San Francisco Bay, 13 miles south of the city. It is the primary gateway to the Bay Area and United Airlines' principal transpacific hub. This metal print is built from ADS-B flight tracking data, and every flight path is colorized by altitude across your chosen palette.

The print visualizes all 3,122 flights recorded May 7-9, 2026, on the 99th anniversary of SFO's founding dedication, one year before its centennial. Each aircraft tracked, each path rendered: aviation wall art that marks nearly a century of flight at one of America's great airports.

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What's included

  • 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

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) sits at the edge of the San Francisco Bay, 13 miles south of the city. It is the primary gateway to the Bay Area and United Airlines' principal transpacific hub. This metal print is built from ADS-B flight tracking data, and every flight path is colorized by altitude across your chosen palette.

The print visualizes all 3,122 flights recorded May 7-9, 2026, on the 99th anniversary of SFO's founding dedication, one year before its centennial. Each aircraft tracked, each path rendered: aviation wall art that marks nearly a century of flight at one of America's great airports.

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 3 days.

3,122

Total Flights

1,126

Unique Aircraft

3,027,740

ADS-B Points

SFO logged 3,122 flights across three days in May 2026, split almost evenly between 1,569 arrivals and 1,553 departures. Traffic averaged 43.4 flights per hour, with the busiest hour falling at 6 PM PDT, when 222 movements were recorded (121 arrivals, 101 departures). The peak day was May 8, which saw 1,215 flights. Early mornings were quiet, with just 6 total movements in the 4 AM hour, before volume climbed sharply through the morning and held high from midday through late evening. The 1,126 unique aircraft in the capture came primarily from US-registered tail numbers (963 aircraft), with Canadian, Laotian, Japanese, and British registrations also represented, along with aircraft from more than 20 other countries. Los Angeles was the top route by a wide margin, with 190 combined movements (97 arrivals, 93 departures) over the three days. Las Vegas, San Diego, and Seattle each generated roughly 100 movements, followed by Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Phoenix, JFK, Orange County, and Dallas-Fort Worth rounding out the top ten. Approach and departure tracks concentrated heavily in the ENE and SE quadrants, with ENE accounting for 376 arrivals and 406 departures. A smaller but consistent stream used N and NNE corridors. Altitude data from over 3 million ADS-B position points shows the heaviest concentration of cruise-altitude readings between 35,000 and 38,000 feet, with 35,000-36,000 ft logging the single highest band count at 172,632 points. The highest-altitude flight in the dataset reached 49,975 feet on a departure to Dallas Love Field. The longest flight by distance was a 2,605 nautical mile arrival from Boston, lasting just over 6.5 hours. Average leg distance across all flights was 924 nautical miles.

Every print includes a QR code linking to the flight stats.

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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

San Francisco International Airport traces its origins to May 7, 1927, when the City and County of San Francisco held a dedication ceremony at Mills Field Municipal Airport, a 150-acre cow pasture in San Mateo County roughly 13 miles south of the city. The airport opened with a single 4,590-foot dirt runway and served just 19 passengers in its first month. Early tenants included Century Pacific Airlines, Maddux Airlines, and Western Air Express. By 1947, the airport had been renamed San Francisco International to reflect a growing roster of Pacific routes, and that same year it crossed the one million annual passenger mark.

Its geographic position on the West Coast made it a natural hub for transpacific service. Japan Airlines arrived in 1954. TWA brought the first commercial jet service with a Boeing 707 in March 1959. A landmark new terminal, dedicated in August 1954 in International Style with a dual-level design separating arrivals from departures, set the architectural tone for decades of expansion. The dot-com boom of the 1990s accelerated growth dramatically, and a $2.4 billion International Terminal Complex opened in December 2000. At 1.8 million square feet, it is the largest international terminal in North America and the largest building in the world constructed on base isolators for earthquake protection. BART rail service reached the airport in June 2003, connecting it directly to downtown San Francisco and the East Bay.

Today SFO is the second-busiest airport in California and a hub for both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines. United operates more transpacific nonstops from SFO than from any of its other hubs, serving Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney, among others. Silicon Valley's proximity drives an outsized share of premium corporate travel. The four-terminal layout, including the Harvey Milk Terminal 1, named for the civil rights leader and renovated for sustainability and inclusivity, arranges around a counterclockwise loop connected by a free automated AirTrain.