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Live flights over Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport (BRD)

From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 13 departures and 8 arrivals at Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport, 11 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Minneapolis (MSP), Chicago (ORD) and Providence/Warwick (PVD). The airline seen most often is SkyWest Airlines.

Airport data

IATA code
BRD
ICAO code
KBRD
City
Brainerd
Region
Minnesota
Country
United States
Elevation
376 m (1,232 ft)
Coordinates
46.40286, -94.12973

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Brainerd Lakes Regional 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 Brainerd.

Seen by the network

23–24 October 2026

Movements a day
11
departures + arrivals
Departures
13
total, 2 days
Arrivals
8
total, 2 days
Connections
4
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

0
5
10
15
Fri 23
Sat 24
Show as a table
Day Departures Arrivals Total
Fri 23 8 4 12
Sat 24 5 4 9

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Minneapolis MSP 7 flights
  2. Chicago ORD 1 flights
  3. Providence/Warwick PVD 1 flights
  4. Raleigh/Durham RDU 1 flights

Airlines

  1. SkyWest AirlinesSKW 7
  2. flyExclusiveJRE 2
  3. Priester AviationPWA 2
  4. AirShareXSR 2
  5. NCJNCJ 1

Aircraft

  1. CRJ7 7
  2. C56X 4

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 Brainerd Lakes Regional 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/46.40286/lon/-94.12973/dist/80

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

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport? +

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

Which airlines fly from Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were SkyWest Airlines, flyExclusive, Priester Aviation, AirShare and NCJ.

What are the main connections from Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: Minneapolis (MSP, 7), Chicago (ORD, 1), Providence/Warwick (PVD, 1) and Raleigh/Durham (RDU, 1). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Brainerd? +

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 Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport? +

Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport has IATA code BRD and ICAO code KBRD. It lies in Minnesota, United States, at coordinates 46.40286, -94.12973.

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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