The flight radar 24 app (free) shows you most every plane in the air and where it is flying and who owns it
The private flights at hanscom fall into three buckets
* True privately owned planes taking the billionaires to Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Maine or (during the week) business centers. In the winter these planes fly instead to Florida, ski resorts and Mexico (yes all the way to Mexico from hanscom)
* Disguised commercial flights that sell “memberships” instead of tickets and this gets them around the no commercial flights at hanscom rule. Net jets and planes sense are two of these companies and they are listed as the owners of the planes so easy to spot. These flights go to the same vacation spots as the true private planes but these poor millionaires have to share the plane with other millionaires and book ahead
* people learning to fly private planes - because after all we really want more and more private planes. These flights are really irritating. They are horrible noise polluters and they go round and round in circles spewing toxic fumes. I would love to shut down the training flights at hanscom
Enjoy the app. When a plane wakes you up open the app and see where it is going. Grrrrr
I am also in the category of “moderated” so let’s roll the dice and see if it gets through the filter!
Laura Glynn
Tower road
I don’t think the majority are military aircraft. What I see, being near the field, are private jets coming and going frequently. There are a few loud military flights, but they are few. I believe by far it’s the private jet traffic! The private jet activity really picks up on Fridays and Sundays/Mondays. It’s growing increasingly worse and worse. In all honesty, I’ve heard probably at least 3 jets taking off during the timespan of typing this text at 4:00 on Sunday.
Wooops! Make that 4 jets!!!
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> On Aug 22, 2025, at 2:12 AM, Tom Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The increased military traffic is part of the Marines' 250th birthday
> celebration.
> It's been well publicized by most media, except interestingly not in the
> Globe. There have been numerous TV videos of planes landing and taking off
> at Boston Common. It's scheduled to continue all week.
>
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