Select any flight to see who the aircraft is registered to, what it is, and everywhere we have seen it.
TimeAircraftHeightSpeed and directionClosest to downtown
Sunday, Sept. 13
Cirrus SR20N430SUPrivate
Boelte Aviation LLC · Edmond, OK
4,200 ftabout 3,100 ft above the ground140 mph, heading southwest1.4 mi southeast of downtown
Boeing 737-800N18223United 2325AirlinerScheduled
New Orleans (MSY) → to Denver (DEN)
United Airlines Inc · Chicago, IL
38,400 ft509 mph, heading northwest2.2 mi northeast of downtown
Piper Cherokee SixN899JBPrivateGuthrie airport
Investors Trust Co Trustee · Duncan, OK
1,100 ftjust above the ground6 mph1.6 mi south of downtown
Unidentified aircraftUnidentifiedGuthrie airport
Volar Viii LLC · Edmond, OK
1,500 ftabout 500 ft above the ground94 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Airbus A319N722USAmerican 2304AirlinerScheduled
Wichita (ICT) → to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) · one leg of several
Bank Of Utah Trustee · Salt Lake City, UT
27,800 ft531 mph, heading south1.1 mi west of downtown
Cirrus SR22TN817AMPrivate
Diversified Air Services LLC · Edmond, OK
3,100 ftabout 2,100 ft above the ground160 mph, heading south4.3 mi east of downtown
Boeing 737 MAX 8N8997QSouthwest 3398Airliner
Southwest Airlines Co · Dallas, TX
39,500 ft549 mph, heading east3.8 mi north of downtown
Piper Cherokee SixN899JBPrivateGuthrie airport
Investors Trust Co Trustee · Duncan, OK
1,800 ftabout 700 ft above the ground113 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Cirrus Vision JetN509SAPrivate
Six Shooter Aircraft LLC · Ruidoso, NM
33,100 ft361 mph, heading east2.2 mi north of downtown
Cirrus SR22TN817AMPrivateGuthrie airport
Diversified Air Services LLC · Edmond, OK
1,100 ftjust above the ground48 mph, heading south1.6 mi south of downtown
Boeing 737 MAX 8N350RVAmerican 773AirlinerScheduled
San Francisco (SFO) → to Miami (MIA)
Wilmington Trust Co Trustee · Wilmington, DE
37,300 ft556 mph, heading east4.0 mi north of downtown
Van's RV-14N127JTPrivate
Cowles Andrew D · Owasso, OK
10,000 ft200 mph, heading east2.0 mi south of downtown
Unidentified aircraftUnidentified
Volar Viii LLC · Edmond, OK
5,800 ft130 mph, heading north3.0 mi west of downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN3761SPrivateGuthrie airport
Bucks Flight Academy LLC · Cashion, OK
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground71 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Airbus A320N371NWDelta 2971AirlinerScheduled
Minneapolis (MSP) → to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
Delta Air Lines Inc · Atlanta, GA
36,200 ft524 mph, heading south2.7 mi west of downtown
Beechcraft Baron 58N8008EPrivateGuthrie airport
Pegasus Aviation LLC · Wichita, KS
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground117 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN4891JPrivate
Harris Aircraft Leasing Co · Oklahoma City, OK
6,400 ft117 mph, heading southdescending3.1 mi west of downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN552SPPrivate
Engineers Flying Club Inc · Bethany, OK
7,300 ft124 mph, heading south2.6 mi west of downtown
Beechcraft King Air 90N316MDPrivate
Gem City Properties LLC · Laramie, WY
23,600 ft284 mph, heading northwest1.0 mi northeast of downtown
Cessna Citation ExcelN153PMPrivate
Ceco Aviation LLC · Midland, TX
7,600 ft308 mph, heading southwestdescending4.5 mi southeast of downtown
How this works
Most aircraft broadcast their position, height and speed several times a second, and volunteers around the world pick those signals up with small radio receivers and share them through adsb.lol. Our flight log checks that data for the sky over Guthrie every twelve to twenty seconds, around the clock.
A flight is listed once it has gone, at the moment it came closest to downtown, if that was within five miles. Heights are above sea level, the way pilots report them; the ground around Guthrie is roughly 1,000 feet above sea level, so for low aircraft we also give an estimate of the height above the ground.
The tail number is the registration painted on the aircraft, which it broadcasts along with its position, and which anyone can look up in the Federal Aviation Administration’s public registry. Select one to see every flight that aircraft has made over Guthrie in the past week. Aircraft that don’t broadcast their position don’t appear at all, and a few are seen only by radar and carry no identification — most military flights broadcast no tail number either.
Where a flight was going is the one line here we did not watch happen. An aircraft broadcasts a flight number, never a destination, so for airline flights we look the number up in the published schedules — and then check that answer against the aircraft itself. A flight number is reused and re-routed from season to season, so the schedule can easily describe a different journey from the one that crossed the county. We keep it only when the airport it names lies ahead of the heading the aircraft was actually on, and drop it when it does not. Roughly half the flights over Guthrie carry a flight number at all; private aircraft have no published schedule and are never given one here. A route is where an aircraft was booked to go, not proof of where it landed.
NOW93°F ClearWINDSSE 8 mphAIRAQI 58 Moderate · O3 at Oklahoma CityTONIGHT77°F Mostly Clear · 2% rainFRIDAY99°F Sunny · 2% rainCIMARRON4.99 ft steadyCOTTONWOOD2.21 ft risingDROUGHTD3 Extreme · 56% of Logan Co.JOBS4.5% in Logan Co., up from 3.3% a year agoSUN7:12 am – 7:35 pmNOW93°F ClearWINDSSE 8 mphAIRAQI 58 Moderate · O3 at Oklahoma CityTONIGHT77°F Mostly Clear · 2% rainFRIDAY99°F Sunny · 2% rainCIMARRON4.99 ft steadyCOTTONWOOD2.21 ft risingDROUGHTD3 Extreme · 56% of Logan Co.JOBS4.5% in Logan Co., up from 3.3% a year agoSUN7:12 am – 7:35 pm