Purdue University Airport

Purdue University Airport (LAF/KLAF) is in West Lafayette, US, 185 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 2,012 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
LAF · KLAF
City
West Lafayette
Country
US
Coordinates
40.4129, -86.9394
Elevation
185 m · 606 ft
Time zone
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Local time now
09:51
Airspace
Chicago
Departures observed
163 · 95 arrivals
Most seen destinations
CMI, ORD, AUS, CLL, CLT

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 (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
20:00N73719C172 · N73719LAF
20:00EJA389C680 · N389QS—
20:07N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
20:13N672MAC172 · N672MA—
21:03N5331DC172 · N5331DLAF
21:14N16566P28R · N16566—
21:17N273NDP28A · N273NDLAF
21:22N422LSC172 · N422LSLAF
21:25N403RWE135 · N403RWCLL
05:56SKW5043CRJ2 · N924SWORD
08:05N273NDP28A · N273NDLAF
08:07PDU57P28A · N857PULAF
08:13PDU80— · N880PULAF
08:16PDU56P28A · N856PULAF
08:17PDU55P28A · N855PULAF
08:27PDU59P28A · N859PULAF
08:33PDU54P28A · N854PULAF
08:34N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
08:45PDU58P28A · N858PULAF
08:49N94286C152 · N94286LAF
09:00N581RSH25B · N581RS—
09:00N8113RP28A · N8113R—
09:07PDU67P28A · N867PULAF
09:14PDU53P28A · N853PULAF
09:17N5331DC172 · N5331DLAF
09:25N550VGC550 · N550VGPUB
09:44PDU73PA44 · N573PULAF
10:01N73719C172 · N73719LAF
10:02PDU64P28A · N864PULAF
10:08N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
10:08PDU56P28A · N856PULAF
10:12PDU72PA44 · N572PULAF
10:13N560PUP28A · N560PULAF
10:15PDU54P28A · N854PULAF
10:16PDU57P28A · N857PULAF
10:19PDU59P28A · N859PU—
10:22PDU55P28A · N855PULAF
10:40N35063C172 · N35063LAF
11:10PDU50P28A · N850PULAF
11:12PDU80— · N880PULAF

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
20:16N73719C172 · N73719LAF
20:49N653PAC172 · N653PA—
21:07N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
21:50N5331DC172 · N5331DLAF
21:52N273NDP28A · N273NDLAF
22:23N43568P28A · N43568—
23:39N422LSC172 · N422LSLAF
07:51N581RSH25B · N581RS—
08:34N550VGC550 · N550VGDAY
09:01PDU56P28A · N856PULAF
09:07PDU55P28A · N855PULAF
09:08PDU54P28A · N854PULAF
09:09N273NDP28A · N273NDLAF
09:12PDU57P28A · N857PULAF
09:13N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
09:15PDU59P28A · N859PULAF
09:27N201RTM20P · N201RT—
09:53N94286C152 · N94286LAF
09:55N712ABC56X · N712AB—
10:00PDU67P28A · N867PULAF
10:04PDU53P28A · N853PULAF
10:05PDU58P28A · N858PULAF
10:10PDU80— · N880PULAF
10:32N5331DC172 · N5331DLAF
10:41PDU73PA44 · N573PULAF
10:56N73719C172 · N73719LAF
11:03PDU57P28A · N857PULAF
11:03CAP1255C172 · N97755—
11:05PDU64P28A · N864PULAF
11:07PDU54P28A · N854PULAF
11:10PDU72PA44 · N572PULAF
11:13PDU55P28A · N855PULAF
11:15PDU56P28A · N856PULAF
11:24N5724JC172 · N5724JLAF
11:30N238BGC501 · N238BG—
11:41N560PUP28A · N560PULAF
11:43N35063C172 · N35063LAF
11:51N5331DC172 · N5331DLAF
11:58PDU59P28A · N859PU—
12:03PDU53P28A · N853PULAF

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 (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
10/282,012 m · 6,600 ftasphalt100° · 280°
05/231,288 m · 4,225 ftasphalt47° · 227°

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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