AIR PICTURE — CHAGRIN FALLS, OH — 2026-06-30
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Extraordinarily quiet. Eight contacts logged against a 7-day average of 1,296. Something is very wrong with either the sky or the sensor.
NOTABLE TRAFFIC
EDV4966 (ICAO A21142) — Endeavor Air regional, southeast-bound at 144°, cruising 29,575 ft at 481 kts. Lowest of the high-altitude crowd and moving the fastest relative to altitude. Probably glad to be going somewhere.
UAL1998 (ICAO A2B10C) — United, heading 293° (northwest), 36,000 ft, 458 kts. Standard fare for the corridor.
RPA4656 (ICAO A53BA4) — Republic Airways, eastbound at 82°, 33,000 ft, 464 kts. Clipping the southern edge of our coverage area.
N551CZ (ICAO A7036C) — The low-and-fast outlier of the day. Eastbound at 98°, only 7,350 ft, pushing 304 kts. Noticeably lower than everything else; worth a second glance if this persists.
EJM171 (ICAO A11861) — Executive Jet Management bizjet, tops out at 43,000 ft heading 277°. Highest confirmed contact today. Someone is comfortable up there.
ANOMALIES
A31F94 — 41,000 ft, no callsign, no position reported. Mode S active, flight ID silent. It's up there. It knows we're watching. It isn't saying anything.
A8E262 — 38,000 ft, westbound at 264°, 465 kts, also declining to introduce itself. Two anonymous high-altitude contacts in one day is notable. Could be military, could be a transponder configuration issue. Flagged regardless.
A2995E — No callsign, no altitude, no position. Essentially a rumor with a hex code.
TRAFFIC VOLUME — Today's total of 8 aircraft represents a 99% drop from the 7-day average of 1,296. The anomaly system flagged this three separate times, as though it couldn't believe it either. Neither can we.
PATTERN NOTES
Five regularly observed flights — RPA5623, RPA3451, SWA2465, SWA846, and EDV5190 — are all absent today. That's not a coincidence; that's a pattern. Whether this reflects a ground stop, routing changes, or simply a data collection gap is unknown from available information. The data is thin and we are saying so plainly.
END OF DAILY AIR PICTURE