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Live flights over San Carlos Airport (SQL)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 1,034 departures and 1,035 arrivals at San Carlos Airport, 296 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Oakland (OAK), San Francisco (SFO) and Monterey (MRY). The airline seen most often is BYF.

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Airport data

IATA code
SQL
ICAO code
KSQL
City
San Carlos
Region
California
Country
United States
Elevation
2 m (5 ft)
Coordinates
37.51313, -122.25084

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of San Carlos 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 San Carlos.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
296
departures + arrivals
Departures
1,034
total, 7 days
Arrivals
1,035
total, 7 days
Connections
18
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 158 150 308
Mon 2 141 159 300
Tue 3 85 89 174
Wed 4 137 134 271
Thu 5 187 184 371
Fri 6 166 151 317
Sat 7 160 168 328

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Oakland OAK 15 flights
  2. San Francisco SFO 8 flights
  3. Monterey MRY 7 flights
  4. Los Angeles LAX 5 flights
  5. Santa Rosa STS 5 flights
  6. Concord CCR 4 flights
  7. Stockton SCK 4 flights
  8. Redding RDD 3 flights
  9. San Diego SAN 2 flights
  10. San Jose SJC 2 flights
  11. Sacramento SMF 2 flights
  12. Truckee TKF 2 flights
  13. Vancouver YVR Canada 1 flights
  14. Las Vegas LAS 1 flights
  15. Chicago ORD 1 flights
  16. Santa Barbara SBA 1 flights
2 more connections

Airlines

  1. BYFBYF 795
  2. Stephenville Aviation ServicesXSN 24
  3. CMDCMD 3
  4. DLXDLX 3
  5. Southwest AirlinesSWA 3
  6. PlaneSenseCNS 2
  7. Delta Air LinesDAL 2
  8. Intavia LimitedFFL 2
  9. MinilinerMNL 2
  10. American AirlinesAAL 1

Aircraft

  1. Cessna 172 Skyhawk C172 938
  2. Piper PA-28 Cherokee P28A 104
  3. C152 89
  4. C72R 77
  5. SR20 77
  6. Pilatus PC-12 PC12 71
  7. S22T 67
  8. BE36 43
  9. DA40 31
  10. C182 24

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 San Carlos 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/37.51313/lon/-122.25084/dist/80

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

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over San Carlos Airport? +

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

Which airlines fly from San Carlos Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were BYF, Stephenville Aviation Services, CMD, DLX and Southwest Airlines.

What are the main connections from San Carlos Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Oakland (OAK, 15), San Francisco (SFO, 8), Monterey (MRY, 7), Los Angeles (LAX, 5) and Santa Rosa (STS, 5). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around San Carlos? +

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 San Carlos Airport? +

San Carlos Airport has IATA code SQL and ICAO code KSQL. It lies in California, United States, at coordinates 37.51313, -122.25084.

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.

Nearby airports

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SJC · KSJC
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CCR · KCCR
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