MEB · YMEN Victoria, Australia Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over Melbourne Essendon Airport (MEB)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 498 departures and 488 arrivals at Melbourne Essendon Airport, 141 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Melbourne (MBW), Devonport (DPO) and Geelong/Melbourne (AVV). The airline seen most often is Rikspolisstyrelsen.

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Airport data

IATA code: MEB
ICAO code: YMEN
City: Essendon Fields
Region: Victoria
Country: Australia
Elevation: 86 m (282 ft)
Coordinates: -37.7281, 144.90199

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Melbourne Essendon 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 Essendon Fields.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day

141

departures + arrivals

Departures

498

total, 7 days

Arrivals

488

total, 7 days

Connections

airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Show as a table

Day	Departures	Arrivals	Total
Sun 1	57	57	114
Mon 2	32	38	70
Tue 3	107	95	202
Wed 4	58	62	120
Thu 5	109	103	212
Fri 6	67	77	144
Sat 7	68	56	124

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

Melbourne MBW 4 flights
Devonport DPO 1 flights
Geelong/Melbourne AVV 1 flights
Adelaide ADL 1 flights
Canberra CBR 1 flights
Sydney SYD 1 flights
Williamtown NTL 1 flights
Burnie BWT 1 flights

Airlines

RikspolisstyrelsenPOL 67
Care FlightCFH 2
National Jet ExpressJTE 2
QantasLinkQLK 2
QantasQFA 1
Regional ExpressRXA 1

Aircraft

BE20 149
A139 125
Cessna 172 Skyhawk C172 118
EC30 87
AS50 47
SW4 37
B350 35
R44 32
G2CA 23
Piper PA-28 Cherokee P28A 23

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.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of Melbourne Essendon 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/-37.7281/lon/144.90199/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Essendon Fields right now?”

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Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Melbourne Essendon Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Essendon Fields: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of MEB, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from Melbourne Essendon Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Rikspolisstyrelsen, Care Flight, National Jet Express, QantasLink and Qantas.

What are the main connections from Melbourne Essendon Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Melbourne (MBW, 4), Devonport (DPO, 1), Geelong/Melbourne (AVV, 1), Adelaide (ADL, 1) and Canberra (CBR, 1). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Essendon Fields? +

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 Melbourne Essendon Airport? +

Melbourne Essendon Airport has IATA code MEB and ICAO code YMEN. It lies in Victoria, Australia, at coordinates -37.7281, 144.90199.

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.