N71HD — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
AIR7 is the primary news helicopter of KABC Channel 7, the LA ABC owned-and-operated station — the station's only on-air name for the aircraft. It's been Los Angeles' best-known news heli since the OJ Simpson chase era. Backup tails N29HD and N828AP fly in the same livery.
We have recorded AIR7 over 251 neighborhoods across Southern California, 2860 passes in all — most recently over Lake Balboa on 17 October.
Counted from this site's own observations of the public ADS-B feed, not from a flight plan — a pass is a visit we watched, and the list is what we have seen, not everywhere this aircraft has been.
Our record ties AIR7 to 30 scenes, the 8 most recent below.
This record starts on 10 August and only includes scenes GTLA opened a page for — most of them opened automatically, when our tracking saw helicopters gather over one spot or follow a chase — so it is not a complete history of where this aircraft has flown.
See what is flying directly over your own neighborhood at /here. GTLA AirWatch is an independent tracker; the broadcasters and agencies named on this page are not affiliated with GTLA.
The portrait of AIR7 is an AI-generated fleet illustration, made from photographs of the real aircraft; markings follow the photographed livery. KABC is not affiliated with GTLA.