LIVE · DALLAS/FORT WORTH (DFW)

Live flights over Dallas/Fort Worth

See every aircraft over Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW/KDFW) in real time — its type, operator, altitude, origin and destination, and an attention score — fused from 60+ public ADS-B feeds and refreshed about every seven seconds.

Open the live map over Dallas/Fort Worth ↗How to read it
Quick answer. Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW / KDFW) sits at 32.8968, -97.0380 near Dallas-Fort Worth, United States, at 607 ft elevation. To see what is flying over it right now, open AeroScope centred on those coordinates: it lists every aircraft overhead with type, operator, altitude and a 0–100 attention score, fused from 60+ ADS-B feeds and de-duplicated by ICAO 24-bit address.
Airport data

Dallas/Fort Worth at a glance

IATA codeDFW
ICAO codeKDFW
AirportDallas Fort Worth International Airport
CityDallas-Fort Worth, United States
Coordinates32.8968, -97.0380
Elevation607 ft

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What you will see

Reading the sky over Dallas-Fort Worth

Around a hub like Dallas/Fort Worth, most of what is overhead is routine: airliners and cargo aircraft on published arrival and departure procedures, general aviation, and helicopters. AeroScope is observer-relative — instead of asking “where is flight X,” you fix the map on Dallas/Fort Worth and it continuously evaluates everything above it. Each aircraft carries a transparent 0–100 attention score built from eight rule-based factors (emergency squawk, military hex allocation, proximity, altitude and speed anomalies, loitering patterns and integrity-check failures), so the one worth a second look rises to the top instead of hiding in the traffic.

Spoofed or self-inconsistent broadcasts are flagged too: AeroScope runs a DO-260B integrity check (NIC/NACp/NACv/SIL), a Kalman normalised-innovation test and geometric-versus-barometric altitude residuals, and only raises a flag when at least two independent detectors agree.

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Other airports near Dallas/Fort Worth

See also: military aircraft tracking, is that aircraft a threat?, and how AeroScope works.

FAQ

Flights over Dallas/Fort Worth — FAQ

What planes fly over Dallas-Fort Worth?
Most traffic over Dallas-Fort Worth near Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW) is scheduled airline and cargo flights on published arrival and departure routes, plus general aviation and helicopters. AeroScope shows each aircraft overhead in real time with its type, operator and altitude — open the live map centred on Dallas/Fort Worth to see the current picture.
How high do planes fly over Dallas/Fort Worth?
It depends on distance from the runway. Aircraft on final approach or initial climb near Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) may be only a few thousand feet up, while overflights cruise at 30,000–40,000 ft. AeroScope shows the barometric altitude of every aircraft, so you can tell an arrival or departure from a high overflight.
Can I see military or unusual aircraft over Dallas-Fort Worth?
Sometimes. A large share of military and state aircraft broadcast ADS-B just like airliners, and AeroScope surfaces those over Dallas-Fort Worth with an explanation of why each was flagged, plus a 0–100 attention score. Some sensitive flights operate without ADS-B and cannot be seen by any crowdsourced tracker.
Is it legal to track flights over Dallas/Fort Worth?
Yes. AeroScope uses only public ADS-B broadcasts that aircraft transmit openly on 1090 MHz and that volunteer receiver networks republish freely. Viewing this public data over Dallas/Fort Worth Airport is legal; AeroScope simply adds fusion, integrity checks and anomaly analysis on top of it.