Live flights over Sunshine Coast Airport (MCY)
From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 395 departures and 367 arrivals at Sunshine Coast Airport, 109 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Melbourne (MEL), Sydney (SYD) and Brisbane (BNE). The airline seen most often is Jetstar Airways.
Airport data
- IATA code
- MCY
- ICAO code
- YBSU
- City
- Maroochydore
- Region
- Queensland
- Country
- Australia
- Elevation
- 5 m (15 ft)
- Coordinates
- -26.59332, 153.08319
What you can track here
Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Sunshine Coast Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Maroochydore.
Seen by the network
1–7 November 2026
Movements per day
Show as a table
| Day | Departures | Arrivals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 1 | 50 | 46 | 96 |
| Mon 2 | 49 | 47 | 96 |
| Tue 3 | 62 | 50 | 112 |
| Wed 4 | 71 | 69 | 140 |
| Thu 5 | 72 | 61 | 133 |
| Fri 6 | 57 | 61 | 118 |
| Sat 7 | 34 | 33 | 67 |
Connections
airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen
Airlines
- Jetstar AirwaysJST 91
- Virgin AustraliaVOZ 69
- QantasLinkQLK 36
- QantasQFA 19
- Alliance AirlinesUTY 10
- RikspolisstyrelsenPOL 2
Aircraft
- R22 114
- Boeing 737-800 B738 77
- Airbus A320 A320 62
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk C172 58
- C208 45
- DA40 45
- PA38 34
- A139 31
- SLG2 29
- Airbus A220-300 BCS3 26
How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.
This data in your app
Every aircraft within 80 km of Sunshine Coast Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:
curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/-26.59332/lon/153.08319/dist/80Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Maroochydore right now?”
Frequently asked questions
How can I see live flights over Sunshine Coast Airport? +
Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Maroochydore: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of MCY, refreshed every few seconds.
Which airlines fly from Sunshine Coast Airport? +
Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Jetstar Airways, Virgin Australia, QantasLink, Qantas and Alliance Airlines.
What are the main connections from Sunshine Coast Airport? +
The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Melbourne (MEL, 83), Sydney (SYD, 83), Brisbane (BNE, 6), Adelaide (ADL, 6) and Singapore (SIN, 1). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.
Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Maroochydore? +
Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.
What are the codes for Sunshine Coast Airport? +
Sunshine Coast Airport has IATA code MCY and ICAO code YBSU. It lies in Queensland, Australia, at coordinates -26.59332, 153.08319.
Is the flight data free and open? +
Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.
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