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Military aircraft over New South Wales right now

At 01:47 UTC, 8 military aircraft are airborne over New South Wales right now. 22 were seen broadcasting here in the last 12 hours.

Live military traffic in and around New South Wales today, from community ADS-B data, re-checked every minute. The area is a bounding box around New South Wales rather than its exact border, so aircraft just outside the line can appear.

Military traffic over New South Wales · checked within the last minute
8military aircraft airborne
CallsignTypeAltitudeSpeed
TAIP31EC351,550 ft11 kt
TAIP39EC351,150 ft86 kt
CBRA21H60100 ft1 kt
TROJ20C30J9,725 ft211 kt
EMYU75EC35600 ft64 kt
TAIP18EC35975 ft101 kt
A27-024HAWK7,925 ft454 kt
KAOS51C27J4,825 ft242 kt

Military aircraft seen over New South Wales earlier today

134 checks in the last 12 hours · last 2 min ago
22military aircraft seen broadcasting over New South Wales in the last 12 hours
CallsignTypeLast seenLowest altitude
CBRA21H60Now25 ft
A27-024HAWKNow5,600 ft
TROJ20C30JNow475 ft
TAIP39EC35Now125 ft
TAIP31EC35Now1,425 ft
KAOS51C27JNow1,375 ft
A27-006HAWK8 min ago4,025 ft
SHDE63GLF513 min ago39,000 ft
RCH101C1717 min ago5,650 ft
TAIP18EC3523 min ago100 ft
MTCH14E73727 min ago-125 ft
GLETBLKH6037 min ago-100 ft
EVY66FA7X37 min ago50 ft
PTHR20HAWK47 min ago12,900 ft
TAIP36EC3553 min ago375 ft
MTCH15E7371 h 13 min ago750 ft
HDSN08B3501 h 18 min ago13,000 ft
TAIP24EC351 h 43 min ago100 ft
WLBY11G2222 h 28 min ago75 ft
PTHR20HAWK3 h 22 min ago12,900 ft
DNGO01B3503 h 33 min ago23,475 ft
A01002NH906 h 23 min ago1,600 ft

This log checks every 5 minutes and keeps 12 hours, so an aircraft that crossed in under 5 minutes can be missed, and one flying with its transponder off never appears. “Lowest altitude” is the lowest it was seen at during those checks.

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Why are military jets flying over New South Wales today?

Nothing an aircraft broadcasts says what its flight is for, so this page can’t tell you why a particular jet is over New South Wales. Routine reasons include training flights, transits between bases, tanker and transport runs, and flyovers for public events. What it can show is which military aircraft are broadcasting a position here right now, with type, altitude and speed. A low, loud jet you just heard may not be listed: many military aircraft fly with the transponder off.

What you can and can’t see

Everything on this page comes from transponder broadcasts picked up by volunteer receivers. Military aircraft frequently operate with the transponder off, and some broadcast anonymised identifiers, so an empty page is never proof that nothing is flying. What is here is real; what is missing may simply be silent.

Elsewhere in Australia

Live positions come from volunteer-run ADS-B receivers, shared as open data under the ODbL licence. An aircraft is visible here only if its transponder is broadcasting and a receiver hears it, so coverage is dense over North America and Europe and thin over oceans, deserts and mountains. Not for navigation or operational use. More about our data.

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