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Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

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SYD

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport

Arrivals and departures, traced from ADS-B data.

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

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) is Australia's busiest airport and one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports. This metal print captures its reach in precise detail, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Every flight path is colorized by altitude, mapping each aircraft's climb or descent across your chosen palette.

This print visualizes all 5,644 flights recorded January 9-15, 2025, on the 105th anniversary of SYD's official opening day. Each flight is tracked, plotted, and printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel.

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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

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) is Australia's busiest airport and one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports. This metal print captures its reach in precise detail, rendered from ADS-B flight tracking data. Every flight path is colorized by altitude, mapping each aircraft's climb or descent across your chosen palette.

This print visualizes all 5,644 flights recorded January 9-15, 2025, on the 105th anniversary of SYD's official opening day. Each flight is tracked, plotted, and printed direct-to-metal on an aluminum panel.

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.

5,644

Total Flights

736

Unique Aircraft

3,831,312

ADS-B Points

Sydney Kingsford Smith recorded 5,644 flights across seven days in January 2025, averaging 806 movements per day and 33.6 per hour around the clock. Arrivals and departures split almost exactly in half, with 2,831 arrivals against 2,813 departures. The busiest single day was January 10 at 867 movements, while Saturday January 11 was the quietest at 726. Traffic peaked during the 10:00 AEDT hour with 429 flights, 200 arriving and 229 departing. The overnight window from 03:00 to 05:00 was the quietest stretch, bottoming out at 6 total movements in the 04:00 hour, though the airport logged activity in every hour of the day across the capture period. Melbourne dominated the route mix by a wide margin, accounting for 846 combined movements, followed by Brisbane at 514 and Gold Coast at 352. Adelaide, Canberra, and Hobart rounded out the top domestic routes. The 736 unique aircraft observed came from 25 countries. Australian-registered aircraft made up just over half the fleet at 373, with Chinese-registered aircraft second at 83, followed by the United States at 58 and Singapore at 41. Approach tracks were most concentrated from the NNE at 635 movements and SW at 548, with W and NNW also seeing heavy use. Altitude data drawn from over 3.8 million ADS-B position points shows a pronounced cruise-level concentration between 37,000 and 39,000 feet, the two busiest bands in the dataset. The average recorded altitude across all points was 19,521 feet, pulled down by the volume of low-altitude approach and departure tracks. The highest-altitude flight reached 47,250 feet, logged by Australian-registered VH-87X on an arrival covering 922 nautical miles. The longest flight by distance was an arrival by UAE-registered A6-EVD at 1,922 nautical miles over 232 minutes. The shortest was a 5.3 nautical mile departure by VH-SJE lasting under eight minutes.

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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

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport officially opened on 9 January 1920, when aviator Nigel Love performed the inaugural flight from a leased paddock in the suburb of Mascot, roughly 9 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. It is one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports. The Commonwealth Government took ownership of the site after Love's lease expired in 1923, and regular commercial flights began in 1924. Gravel runways arrived in 1933. In 1936, the airport was renamed in honour of pioneering Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, famous for completing the first trans-Pacific flight.

The post-war decades transformed the site dramatically. The Cooks River was diverted between 1947 and 1953 to make room for paved runways, and the main north-south runway was later extended into Botany Bay, eventually becoming one of the longest commercial runways in the Southern Hemisphere. The international terminal, opened on 3 May 1970 by Queen Elizabeth II, replaced a temporary overseas facility and introduced the airport to the jet age; the first Boeing 747 arrived later that same year. A controversial third parallel runway, built on reclaimed land from Botany Bay, was completed in 1994, prompting the Australian Parliament to pass the Sydney Airport Curfew Act 1995, which prohibits jet operations between 11 pm and 6 am.

Today the airport operates 3 terminals across 907 hectares, with Terminal 1 handling all international traffic and Terminals 2 and 3 serving domestic routes. It is the primary hub for Qantas and a hub for Virgin Australia, and an operating base for Jetstar, serving 46 domestic and 43 international destinations directly. In 2024, the airport handled 41.4 million passengers. SYD is accessible by train in under 20 minutes from the city centre and remains the country's dominant aviation gateway, even as Western Sydney International Airport prepares to open in late 2026.