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
Friday, Sept. 11
Embraer 175N243NNEnvoy 3457AirlinerScheduled
Fargo (FAR) → to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
American Airlines Inc · Fort Worth, TX
31,900 ft557 mph, heading south2.3 mi west of downtown
Airbus A319N9016American 2304AirlinerScheduled
Wichita (ICT) → to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) · one leg of several
Umb Bank Na Trustee · Salt Lake City, UT
27,600 ft567 mph, heading south3.6 mi east of downtown
Boeing 737 MAX 9N703ALAlaska 301AirlinerScheduled
Orlando (MCO) → to Portland (PDX)
Alaska Airlines Inc · Seattle, WA
36,100 ft502 mph, heading west2.2 mi north of downtown
Cessna 182 SkylaneN75RBPrivate
Barr Air Patrol LLC · Mesquite, TX
3,800 ftabout 2,700 ft above the ground144 mph, heading east3.0 mi south of downtown
Cessna 150N8740SPrivateGuthrie airport
Bucks Flight Academy LLC · Cashion, OK
1,600 ftabout 500 ft above the ground86 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Piper ArrowN2880TPrivateGuthrie airport
Vuppala Kavya · Springtown, TX
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground91 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Boeing 737-800N843NNAmerican 1554AirlinerScheduled
Cleveland (CLE) → to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
Wilmington Trust Co Trustee · Wilmington, DE
40,200 ft540 mph, heading south0.9 mi west of downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN84162PrivateGuthrie airport
Crosswind Aviation Of Oklahoma LLC · Stillwater, OK
1,400 ftabout 300 ft above the ground92 mph, heading southdirectly over downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN3761SPrivateGuthrie airport
Bucks Flight Academy LLC · Cashion, OK
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground85 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Cirrus SR20N14ANPrivateGuthrie airport
Freedom OKC Aircraft LLC · Oklahoma City, OK
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground119 mph, heading southdescendingdirectly over downtown
Unidentified aircraftUnidentified2,500 ftabout 1,400 ft above the ground60 mph, heading southwestdescending0.3 mi south of downtown
Boeing 737 MAX 8N8740ASouthwest 3742AirlinerScheduled
Nashville (BNA) → to Los Angeles (LAX)
Umb Bank Na Trustee · Salt Lake City, UT
38,100 ft514 mph, heading west3.2 mi north of downtown
Boeing 767-300N916UPUPS 5796AirlinerScheduled
Louisville (SDF) → to El Paso (ELP)
United Parcel Service Co · Louisville, KY
40,300 ft534 mph, heading southwest1.8 mi northwest of downtown
Piper CherokeeN527SCPrivate
Spartan Education LLC · Tulsa, OK
6,300 ft125 mph, heading southwest1.8 mi southeast of downtown
Cessna Citation LatitudeN631QSNetJets 631Private
Owner name withheld from the FAA registry at the owner's request
16,800 ft391 mph, heading southwestclimbing2.6 mi southeast of downtown
Cessna 172 SkyhawkN4891JPrivate
Harris Aircraft Leasing Co · Oklahoma City, OK
6,800 ft110 mph, heading southwest3.0 mi northwest of downtown
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II03-3688SPECK11Military
Not in the civil registry
7,000 ft275 mph, heading northwest1.5 mi southwest of downtown
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II05-3781SPECK12Military
Not in the civil registry
5,900 ft298 mph, heading northdescending0.3 mi west of downtown
Cessna 150N8740SPrivateGuthrie airport
Bucks Flight Academy LLC · Cashion, OK
1,500 ftabout 400 ft above the ground71 mph, heading southwestdescending0.7 mi southeast of downtown
Piper CherokeeN860UPrivate
Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma · Norman, OK
4,800 ftabout 3,700 ft above the ground128 mph, heading north0.4 mi west 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.
NOW86°F ClearWINDSSE 6 mphAIRAQI 53 Moderate · PM2.5 at Oklahoma CityTONIGHT77°F Mostly Clear · 2% rainFRIDAY99°F Sunny · 2% rainCIMARRON4.96 ft steadyCOTTONWOOD2.28 ft risingDROUGHTD3 Extreme · 56% of Logan Co.JOBS4.5% in Logan Co., up from 3.3% a year agoSUN7:12 am – 7:35 pmNOW86°F ClearWINDSSE 6 mphAIRAQI 53 Moderate · PM2.5 at Oklahoma CityTONIGHT77°F Mostly Clear · 2% rainFRIDAY99°F Sunny · 2% rainCIMARRON4.96 ft steadyCOTTONWOOD2.28 ft risingDROUGHTD3 Extreme · 56% of Logan Co.JOBS4.5% in Logan Co., up from 3.3% a year agoSUN7:12 am – 7:35 pm