HVRA TrackerKPOU · 41.63°N 73.88°W
Community flight and noise data

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what flies
over your community.

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See where aircraft fly, what types of planes they are, how low and how often they pass, and how those patterns may affect noise and quality of life around Hudson Valley Regional Airport.

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SCOPE · KPOU CLASS D · 1090 MHz
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From a flight path to the bigger picture

Turn what's overhead
into something understandable.

Follow a plane in real time, compare recurring routes, identify aircraft types, and see where low or frequent activity overlaps with homes and neighborhoods.

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What we watch

HVRA Tracker answers one simple question: how much low-flying air traffic passes over the area? Instead of vague impressions, it produces hard numbers anyone can check — for residents, researchers, and the curious alike.

Open data, not opinions
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Class D surface area · 2,700 ft MSL

We track aircraft inside the KPOU Class D surface area, from the ground up to 2,700 ft MSL. An aircraft only counts while it's inside that airspace. Above the ceiling or outside the boundary, and it's ignored.

41.6265°N · 73.8842°W
2,700 FT MSLKPOUCLASS D SURFACE AREA
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How aircraft announce themselves

Most aircraft broadcast their GPS position, altitude, speed and callsign about twice a second on 1090 MHz. That's ADS-B — Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast. Anyone with an antenna can listen; that's what makes this possible.

ADS-B · 1090 MHz · ~2 Hz
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Reading the live map

Every contact appears with its callsign and altitude. Configurable distance rings — 0.25, 0.5, and 1 mile — anchored to your home location let you analyze exactly what's passing that close, alongside the Class D boundary. Data is always fresh — no cached snapshots. Tap any contact to follow its track across the airspace.

Tap a contact for its track
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The core metric: low minutes

We count time, not planes. Every minute with a qualifying aircraft overhead is one "low minute," rolled up by hour and day. The Lowest Flights page ranks every aircraft by its minimum recorded AGL altitude — with exact coordinates and a map link for each entry.

Minutes, not just counts
MIN AGL: 312 FT
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Replay any flight, minute by minute

Pick a date and select a specific flight from the table — it collapses to give the map full space. The track is altitude-coloured (red = low, blue = high). The scrubber locks to that flight's time window with ▶/⏹ markers; arriving from the Lowest page jumps straight to the aircraft's lowest-altitude moment.

Red → blue = altitude climb
▶⏹
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How low does it actually get?

The AGL Heatmap divides the area into a fine grid and colour-codes each cell by its minimum recorded altitude above ground level — red for near-terrain passes, green for comfortable clearance. Contour lines derived from USGS terrain data overlay the map underneath.

Red = near terrain · Green = clear
LOW AGLHIGH AGL
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Who's flying what

The Aircraft by Type page profiles every type that has entered the envelope — manufacturer breakdown, year-of-manufacture buckets drawn from the FAA registry (~360 k US aircraft), percentage shares, and a sound characteristics panel to connect what you hear to what you see on radar.

FAA registry · ~360 k aircraft
CESSNA34%PIPER22%BEECH13%OTHER31%YEAR BUILT →
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From data to civic action

The Officials page maps every Dutchess County elected representative — Congress, NYS Senate, Assembly, and County Legislature — filtered to your registered address. An Airport Officials tab lists KPOU and FAA contacts directly, with impact across the entire KPOU Class D airspace; elected officials instead see the numbers scoped to just their own district. Registered users can submit feedback — feature requests or bug reports — from the avatar menu.

→ Open the live dashboard
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One shared view of the sky

Useful to everyone affected by local aviation.

The same clear, location-based evidence helps residents describe their experience and helps aviation and public leaders understand the effects of everyday operations.

01 · RESIDENTS

Make sense of what you hear.

Connect a disruptive moment to an aircraft, altitude, route, and time. See whether it was a single pass or part of a recurring pattern near your home.

See flights near me →
02 · ELECTED & AIRPORT OFFICIALS

See community impact in context.

Use district and airport-area data to understand which communities experience frequent, low, or concentrated flight activity and respond with better-informed decisions.

Explore community impact →
03 · OWNERS & PILOTS

Understand the footprint of a flight.

Review actual tracks and aircraft characteristics to see how altitude, route, repetition, and aircraft type shape the experience on the ground.

View aircraft activity →
Transparent by design

From a passing aircraft
to evidence a community can use.

Public ADS-B broadcasts become readable maps, histories, and reports. The method stays visible so residents, officials, owners, and pilots can work from the same facts.

01 · CAPTURE

1090 MHz antenna

A rooftop antenna and software-defined receiver pick up ADS-B broadcasts from aircraft up to ~150 mi out.

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02 · DECODE

ADS-B Receiver

The receiver decodes each message into position, altitude, speed and callsign, several times per second.

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03 · AGGREGATE

Time-series store

Qualifying contacts are filtered to the envelope and rolled up into low-altitude minutes per hour and day.

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04 · SHOW

hvratracker.com

A live map, flight replay, AGL heatmap, aircraft profiles, and an elected-officials directory — all open data, refreshed continuously.

Start with your sky.
Follow the pattern.

Explore live and historic flights, aircraft types, altitude and noise patterns, and community-level reports built from open ADS-B data.

Explore flights →See community reports