Famous airframes, tracked live

Type trackers follow every 747 or A380 in the air. These pages follow one aircraft at a time: the last of a type, a one-off, a flying laboratory. Each page shows whether it is airborne right now, where it was last heard, and why it matters. Positions come from the same volunteer ADS-B network as the live map, so rare flyers can be in the air and out of range at the same time.

Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F N863GT, the last 747 built, taxiing at Amsterdam Schiphol
N863GT: the last Boeing 747 ever built

Atlas Air's 747-8F, line number 1,574, delivered January 31, 2023, and still working the world's cargo routes.

N863GT
Northrop Grumman Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Stargazer N140SC
Stargazer: the last flying Lockheed L-1011

A 1974 TriStar that became a rocket launcher, and the only airworthy L-1011 left in the world.

N140SC
Air China Boeing 747SP-J6 B-2452 at Zurich in 1997, the airframe that became Pratt & Whitney Canada's C-FPAW
The Pratt & Whitney 747SPs: the last 747SPs flying

Two shortened 747s from 1980 that carry new engines into the sky for Pratt & Whitney Canada.

C-FPAW · C-GTFF
GE Aerospace Boeing 747-446 flying testbed N747GF at the Farnborough Airshow, July 2026
N747GF: GE's 747-400 flying testbed

A former Japan Airlines jumbo that has flown the biggest jet engine in the world on one pylon.

N747GF
Honeywell Boeing 757 flying testbed N757HW at Phoenix Sky Harbor with its third-engine pylon
N757HW: Honeywell's 757 with a third engine on its side

An early 757 that carries test engines on a pylon bolted to the front of the fuselage.

N757HW
Orbis Flying Eye Hospital McDonnell Douglas MD-10-30F N330AU at Malta
The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital: an MD-10 with an operating room

A FedEx freighter rebuilt as a teaching hospital that lands where eye surgeons are scarce.

N330AU
NASA WB-57F N926NA being prepared for a flight at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
NASA's WB-57Fs: the last Canberras flying

Three 1960s high-altitude bombers that NASA flies to 60,000 feet for science, eclipses and rocket launches.

N926NA · N927NA · N928NA
NASA Lockheed ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft in flight
NASA's ER-2s: the civilian U-2s

Two unarmed Dragon Ladies that fly science to 70,000 feet from Palmdale, California.

N806NA · N809NA
Stratolaunch Roc, the Scaled Composites Model 351, in flight carrying a Talon test vehicle
Stratolaunch: Roc and Spirit of Mojave

The widest aircraft ever flown and a former Virgin 747, both launching hypersonic test vehicles from the Mojave Desert.

N351SL · N744VG
Airbus A380 prototype F-WWOW, MSN 1, flying at the Paris Air Show in 2017
F-WWOW: A380 MSN 1, the first superjumbo

The prototype that first flew in 2005 and is still owned by Airbus as a test aircraft in Toulouse.

F-WWOW
A Boeing 777-9 flight-test aircraft on static display at the Dubai Airshow 2025
The Boeing 777-9 test fleet: N779XW, XX, XY and XZ

Four 777Xs that have been flying certification tests since 2020 for an airliner due to enter service in 2027.

N779XW · N779XX · N779XY · N779XZ
Nolinor Aviation Boeing 737-200 C-GNLN landing at Val-d'Or, Québec
Nolinor's 737-200s: the last gravel-runway jets

The world's largest fleet of original 737s, flying miners into the Arctic on runways with no pavement.

C-GNLK · C-GNLN · C-GNRD · C-GNLW