İstanbul Airport

İstanbul Airport (IST/LTFM) is in Istanbul, TR, 99 m above sea level. It has 6 runways and the longest is 4,100 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
IST · LTFM
City
Istanbul
Country
TR
Coordinates
41.2749, 28.7321
Elevation
99 m · 325 ft
Time zone
Europe/Istanbul
Local time now
16:50
Airspace
Istanbul
Departures observed
24 · 490 arrivals
Most seen destinations
NCE, HEL, TIA, BEG, GVA

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (19)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
07:58THY4NDA21N · TC-LSESKG
11:42THY6146A332 · TC-JDONBO
13:24THY6270A332 · TC-JOOTBS
14:54THY7ZVA321 · TC-JSLBEG
15:59THY2NZA21N · TC-LSAHAM
16:01AEE993A321 · SX-DGA
16:10SVA256A333 · HZ-AQ28
16:22THY1WSB738 · TC-JHV
16:28THY33CA21N · TC-LSPGVA
16:46AEA1684B788 · EC-NXAMAD
17:18THY2VNA321 · TC-JSJ
17:24TCKLNCL60 · TC-KLNBDS
17:28THY4VBA321 · TC-JRDIST
17:54DAH3017A320 · LZ-FSA
18:14THY2NKA321 · TC-JMI
18:21THY2EZA319 · TC-JLTIST
18:24THY4KHA333 · TC-JOL
02:14THY2EAB738 · TC-JVU
02:34DAH3015A320 · 9H-AMJ

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
03:05THY5RCB39M · TC-LYD
03:10THY363A21N · TC-LTI
03:14AFR1390BCS3 · F-HPNZ
03:17THY3EZA333 · TC-JOK
03:20ASL426A319 · YU-APE
03:34THY45TA359 · TC-LGF
03:37THY2477A321 · TC-JTH
03:40DAH3018A320 · 9H-SWG
04:06THY92WA359 · TC-LHA
04:09THY199B77W · TC-LJK
04:12THY1YHA21N · TC-LSZ
04:14THY8TRA21N · TC-LSG
04:17THY359A321 · TC-JRS
04:19THY41JB789 · TC-LLN
04:19UZB281A320 · UK-32018VAS
04:21THY12VA359 · TC-LHJ
04:23THY69B789 · TC-LLD
04:25THY4VSA321 · TC-JTA
04:26ETH720B38M · ET-AVI
04:28THY057A359 · TC-LGH
04:30ETH3737B77L · ET-ARI
04:31THY735A333 · TC-JNN
04:33THY658A21N · TC-LPT
04:34THY163A359 · TC-LGJ
04:35THY71B77W · TC-LJA
04:38CPN7972B735 · EP-KPA
04:40THY137A21N · TC-LPC
04:41THY067A359 · TC-LHL
04:44THY7QNA21N · TC-LPR
04:46THY276B738 · TC-JHL
04:47THY4B77W · TC-JJR
04:49THY87B789 · TC-LLG
04:51THY39VA359 · TC-LGO
04:53THY73B77W · TC-JJO
04:55THY91B77W · TC-LJI
04:56THY89B77W · TC-LJG
04:58THY165A359 · TC-LGM
05:00THY9CNB739 · TC-JYM
05:03THY577A332 · TC-JNA
05:03THY25B789 · TC-LLR

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (6)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
17L/35R4,100 m · 13,451 ftasphalt174° · 354°
17R/35L4,100 m · 13,451 ftasphalt174° · 354°
16L/34R3,750 m · 12,303 ftasphalt174° · 354°
16R/34L3,750 m · 12,303 ftasphalt174° · 354°
18/363,060 m · 10,039 ftconcrete179° · 354°
09/272,819 m · 9,250 ftconcrete89° · 269°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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