Live flights over Melbourne Moorabbin Airport (MBW)
From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 128 departures and 136 arrivals at Melbourne Moorabbin Airport, 132 movements a day on average.
Airport data
- IATA code
- MBW
- ICAO code
- YMMB
- City
- Melbourne
- Region
- Victoria
- Country
- Australia
- Elevation
- 15 m (50 ft)
- Coordinates
- -37.97776, 145.0998
What you can track here
Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Melbourne Moorabbin 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 Melbourne.
Seen by the network
23–24 October 2026
Movements per day
Show as a table
| Day | Departures | Arrivals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 | 94 | 95 | 189 |
| Sat 24 | 34 | 41 | 75 |
Connections
airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen
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Airlines
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Aircraft
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk C172 78
- PA44 29
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee P28A 25
- AS50 17
- DA40 12
- EC30 10
- R44 10
- SR20 10
- AS55 8
- P28R 8
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 Melbourne Moorabbin 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/-37.97776/lon/145.0998/dist/80Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Melbourne right now?”
Frequently asked questions
How can I see live flights over Melbourne Moorabbin Airport? +
Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Melbourne: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of MBW, refreshed every few seconds.
Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Melbourne? +
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 Moorabbin Airport? +
Melbourne Moorabbin Airport has IATA code MBW and ICAO code YMMB. It lies in Victoria, Australia, at coordinates -37.97776, 145.0998.
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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