Live flights over Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)
From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 161 departures and 166 arrivals at Santos Dumont Airport, 164 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are São Paulo (CGH), Campinas (VCP) and Brasília (BSB). The airline seen most often is Gol Transportes Aéreos.
Airport data
- IATA code
- SDU
- ICAO code
- SBRJ
- City
- Rio de Janeiro
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro
- Country
- Brazil
- Elevation
- 3 m (11 ft)
- Coordinates
- -22.9104, -43.16282
What you can track here
Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Santos Dumont 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 Rio de Janeiro.
Seen by the network
23–24 October 2026
Movements per day
Show as a table
| Day | Departures | Arrivals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 | 91 | 92 | 183 |
| Sat 24 | 70 | 74 | 144 |
Connections
airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen
Airlines
- Gol Transportes AéreosGLO 94
- TAM Brazilian AirlinesTAM 93
- Azul Linhas Aéreas BrasileirasAZU 70
- First AirFAB 4
Aircraft
- Airbus A319 A319 93
- Boeing 737-800 B738 48
- Boeing 737-700 B737 46
- E295 46
- Embraer E195 E195 24
- Embraer Phenom 300 E55P 8
- DA62 6
- B505 5
- E550 4
- LJ45 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.
This data in your app
Every aircraft within 80 km of Santos Dumont 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/-22.9104/lon/-43.16282/dist/80Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Rio de Janeiro right now?”
Frequently asked questions
How can I see live flights over Santos Dumont Airport? +
Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Rio de Janeiro: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of SDU, refreshed every few seconds.
Which airlines fly from Santos Dumont Airport? +
Among the flights our network saw (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were Gol Transportes Aéreos, TAM Brazilian Airlines, Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras and First Air.
What are the main connections from Santos Dumont Airport? +
The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: São Paulo (CGH, 140), Campinas (VCP, 29), Brasília (BSB, 26) and São Paulo (GRU, 12). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.
Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Rio de Janeiro? +
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 Santos Dumont Airport? +
Santos Dumont Airport has IATA code SDU and ICAO code SBRJ. It lies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at coordinates -22.9104, -43.16282.
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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