India charter flight tracker

— charter flights by — of the — aircraft on DGCA's charter (NSOP) permit list, from — to —. The busiest city pair was —. Updated each morning from open ADS-B data; offshore oil-rig shuttles, cargo freighters and aerial work (survey, flight inspection, training) are counted separately.

Charter flights
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Passenger aircraft, point-to-point and local
Average per day
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Charter flights per day tracked
Charter aircraft flying
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of — on NSOP permits
Operators active
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of — permit holders
Other work flights
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Offshore oil shuttles, cargo, survey
Ends placed at an airport
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Fixed-wing takeoffs and landings

Flights per day

Departures by IST date, stacked by aircraft category. Offshore, cargo and survey work shown on their own.

—Jets —Turboprops / pistons —Helicopters (charter) —Offshore, cargo, survey

Busiest city pairs

Charter flights with both ends placed, either direction. Excludes local sorties, offshore, cargo and survey work.

City pairFlightsAircraftShare

Busiest airports

Charter departures and arrivals placed at each airport or helipad.

AirportDep.Arr.Total

Operators

Charter flights and airborne hours by permit holder; offshore, cargo and survey flights in their own column.

OperatorFlightsAircraft flyingAirborne hoursOther workActivity

Flight log

Every detected flight, newest first. Times are IST. "(inferred)" means the takeoff or landing happened in a coverage gap and the airport was deduced from the track.

Date Aircraft Operator Type From Dep. To Arr. Min Kind

Fleet activity

Every aircraft on the DGCA NSOP list; blank last flight means not seen. "Not seen" means no ADS-B signal was received: parked, in maintenance, flying without a working transponder signal, or out of coverage.

Aircraft Operator Type Category Seats Flights Days flown Hours Last flight
How this is built and what it misses
Aircraft
Every aircraft on DGCA's List of Non-Scheduled Operators (NSOP), as published monthly and parsed by the open vtaircrafts.in dataset.
Flights
Built from adsb.lol's daily archive of ADS-B positions (public domain, CC0). A flight starts when the aircraft leaves the ground and ends when it lands. Where the track drops out and the aircraft could not have covered the distance in the time, it is treated as having landed.
Placing takeoffs and landings
Confirmed: seen on the ground or below 800 ft at the airport. Probable: seen low on approach or climb-out. Inferred: the landing or takeoff was in a coverage gap and the airport was deduced from the descent path or from where the aircraft appeared next. Not seen: no basis to place it; the record keeps the last-seen position.
Times
IST. When an end was not seen directly, the time shown is when the aircraft was first or last seen, so the real takeoff was earlier or the landing later.
Kinds of flight
Point-to-point; local or training (same site); offshore shuttle (helicopter to the Mumbai High, Krishna-Godavari or Cauvery fields); cargo (freighters on NSOP permits); aerial work (aircraft DGCA lists for survey, flight inspection, cloud seeding or flying training); fragment (seen only briefly mid-air). Only the first two count as charter flights.
What is left out
Flights by aircraft with no working ADS-B signal; low-level helicopter work away from receivers; and any leg flown entirely outside receiver coverage. Coverage is thinnest at low level around Delhi and over the sea. Not every flight by an NSOP aircraft is a paid charter: owner, positioning and training flights are included.