What is the Nashville airport noise complaint phone number?

Noise complaints for BNA go to the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) Department of Public Safety, Complaint Investigations, on 615-275-1703, or online via flynashville.com. MNAA also runs a Flight Track Monitoring System and WebTrak so staff can match your report to the actual aircraft track.

Is Donelson loud from BNA airport?

Yes — Donelson is one of the most consistently affected areas. It sits directly off the north end of the parallel 2/20 runways, so in south flow it takes the arrival descent and in north flow it takes the departure climb-out. Either way, low jets pass over much of the day. Drop a pin on the map above to see how your specific street compares.

Why are planes so loud over East Nashville and Inglewood?

Both sit on the north/northwest side of the field, under departures that turn out from runways 31 and 02 and under turning arrival tracks. Since the FAA's NextGen routes have narrowed flight paths, the same turns now happen over the same neighborhoods more repeatedly, which is why the noise can feel more concentrated than it used to.

Antioch and Una flight path noise — how bad is it?

Antioch sits under the south end of the 2/20 corridor, so it catches departure climb-outs in south flow (common in warmer months) and approaches in north flow. Una is just off the centerline edge of the same south corridor and is a notch quieter. Use the pin-drop tool above for an address-level estimate.

What is north flow versus south flow at Nashville airport?

BNA's parallel 2/20 runways run roughly north-northeast to south-southwest. In south flow, aircraft depart toward the south-southwest over Antioch and Una while arrivals descend over Donelson; in north flow this reverses, with departures over Donelson and Hermitage and arrivals over Antioch. Wind decides which is in use, and warmer months tend toward south flow.

Which Nashville neighborhoods are quietest for aircraft noise?

Areas west of the field on the downtown side — Green Hills, Berry Hill, Forest Hills — and far southwestern suburbs like Brentwood sit off the main north-south runway corridors and mostly catch lateral or high-altitude noise. The most affected areas are Donelson, Antioch and Hermitage close to the runway ends.

How do I use the Nashville airport flight tracker?

MNAA operates a public WebTrak / Flight Track Monitoring System that shows aircraft positions and lets you correlate a noise event with a specific flight before filing a complaint. The pin-drop map on this page is a complementary tool — it shows the cumulative noise and flight-density pattern at any address rather than a single live flight.

Nashville Flight Path Noise Map – Nashville International Airport (BNA)

Name: Aircraft noise observations near Nashville International Airport
Creator: Flight Path Noise
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Aircraft noise around Nashville in October 2026

Loudest neighborhoods near Nashville: Donelson, Antioch, Hermitage. Quietest: Berry Hill, Brentwood, Green Hills, Forest Hills. Busiest around 4 PM local time averaging 1059 flights/day. Source: Flight Path Noise monitoring data, 30 days to 2026-10-18.

Flights by hour · last 30 days

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Average daily traffic

1059

flights / day · 31,767 total

Busiest hour

4 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest hour

4 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest residential area

Donelson

68 dB avg · ~618 flights/day · Busy road

Sits directly off the north end of the parallel 2/20 runways, under arrival descent in south flow and departure climb in north flow

Does Nashville Airport have a curfew?

No — Nashville has no formal curfew.

BNA is a 24-hour airport with no mandatory community noise curfew, so scheduled passenger and cargo jets can operate overnight. The only night rules are that practice approaches and touch-and-go pattern work are not permitted between 11 PM and 7 AM, and military jets are asked to use the diagonal runway 13/31. Neither limits regular commercial jets at night.

Nashville International (BNA/KBNA) is one of America’s fastest-growing airports, and its noise footprint has grown with it as Music City’s suburbs push right up to the field boundary about 8 miles southeast of downtown. The defining feature is the layout: three closely-spaced parallel runways aligned roughly north-northeast to south-southwest (the 2/20 family) plus one long diagonal runway (13/31) running northwest-southeast. Depending on the day, the heaviest jet noise shifts between a north corridor over Donelson and a south corridor over Antioch. BNA also runs 24 hours a day with no mandatory curfew, which is a sore point for newer residents under the climb-out paths — and because Davidson County is landlocked, there is no over-water relief: every departure and arrival crosses dense residential and commercial land.

Which neighborhoods are quietest — and which aren’t

BNA has four runways. Three are closely-spaced parallels on the same north-northeast/south-southwest alignment (~021/201 magnetic): 2L/20R (~7,704 ft, westernmost), 2C/20C (~8,001 ft, the primary air-carrier parallel), and 2R/20L (~8,001 ft, easternmost). These handle the bulk of daily jet volume. The fourth is the long diagonal 13/31 (~11,030 ft, oriented southeast/northwest), the airport’s longest runway, used for heavy and long-haul departures, crosswinds, and as the preferred runway for military noise abatement.

Because almost all traffic uses the parallel 2/20 runways, the highest exposure falls on the neighborhoods directly off the north and south runway ends — Donelson to the north and Antioch to the south — with Hermitage catching repeated departure climbs to the north-east.

Area	Aircraft noise	Why
Donelson	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Directly off the north runway ends; arrivals in south flow, departures in north flow
Antioch	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Directly off the south runway ends; departures in south flow, arrivals in north flow
Hermitage	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under the north-east extension of the 2/20 and 31 departure tracks
Una	✈︎✈︎	Edge of the south corridor along the 20 departure path
Crieve Hall	✈︎✈︎	On the broader south-west departure fan in south flow
Inglewood	✈︎✈︎	North side, under runway 31 departures and turning arrivals
East Nashville	✈︎✈︎	Departures turning northwest off runways 31 and 02
La Vergne	✈︎✈︎	Under the south-east extended centerline of runway 13
Madison	✈︎✈︎	Northern departure fan in north flow, off the main corridor
Mount Juliet	✈︎✈︎	Easterly departure routings and the runway 31 outbound track
Berry Hill	✈︎	West of the field; lateral noise, not direct overflight
Brentwood	✈︎	Far south-west; aircraft already at altitude
Green Hills	✈︎	West, on the downtown side, off the main tracks
Forest Hills	✈︎	South-west and off-corridor; distant high-altitude jets

If aircraft noise is a primary concern, the practical move in Nashville is west of the field on the downtown side — Green Hills, Berry Hill, Forest Hills — or the far south-western suburbs like Brentwood, which sit clear of the north-south runway corridors and mostly catch lateral or high-altitude noise. The areas to scrutinize hardest are Donelson, Antioch and Hermitage near the runway ends; if you’re looking at a house or apartment there, drop a pin on the map above to see your specific street’s exposure.

Flight patterns and runway use

BNA’s principal flow runs along the parallel 2/20 runways. The field alternates between north flow — aircraft landing and departing toward the north-northeast on runways 02 — and south flow toward the south-southwest on runways 20, depending on prevailing wind. South flow is common in warmer months.

In south flow, departures climb out over the south and southwest — Antioch, Una, on toward Brentwood — while arrivals descend over the north across Donelson and Inglewood. In north flow this reverses: departures route over Donelson and Hermitage to the north-east, and arrivals come in over Antioch from the south. The long diagonal runway 13/31 handles crosswind and heavy operations, sending traffic over the south-east toward Antioch and La Vergne (runway 13) or the northwest toward Madison and East Nashville (runway 31).

Published noise abatement here is limited. The airport’s only formal measures are that military turbojets are asked to preferentially use runway 13/31 for arrivals and departures, and that practice approaches and traffic-pattern (touch-and-go) work are prohibited between 11 PM and 7 AM local. There are no over-water procedures — every corridor is overland. Rapid post-2018 expansion and the FAA’s NextGen route concentration have made the flight tracks narrower and more repetitive over the same neighborhoods, which is a large part of why local complaints have risen even where total traffic volume per home has not.

The route-density layer on the map above shows the cumulative pattern: two bright corridors extending north (Donelson, Hermitage) and south (Antioch, Una) from the parallel runways, plus a diagonal band from runway 13/31 running southeast toward La Vergne and northwest toward East Nashville and Madison.

When is it quietest?

Because BNA has no curfew, there is no guaranteed silent overnight window — the quietest stretch is simply the small hours when scheduled banks thin out, though cargo jets and the occasional late passenger flight still operate. The daily profile broadly follows the airline schedule:

Overnight (11 PM – 5 AM): lightest, but not silent — cargo and off-schedule jets continue, and there is no curfew to stop them.
Early morning (6 AM – 8 AM): heavy departure bank as the domestic morning rush builds.
Daytime (9 AM – 4 PM): sustained, moderate traffic on the parallel runways.
Evening (5 PM – 9 PM): peak arrivals and a second departure push.
Late evening (9 PM – 11 PM): tapers, but later than at curfew airports.

The bigger swing for most residents is which way the airport is flowing. A wind shift that flips BNA from south flow to north flow will suddenly put Donelson and Hermitage under departure climb-outs that were previously arriving as quieter descents — and move the departure noise off Antioch and Una. If your home is north or south of the field, the time of day matters less than the wind direction on a given day.

For your specific address, drop a pin on the map above to see the hourly profile and how it changes with flow.

How to check noise at your specific address

The map above answers “is this spot loud?” in three steps:

Search your address or postcode in the bar at the bottom of the map.
Drop a pin — click the location marker that appears.
Read the noise report in the sidebar: average daily noise (Leq), peak observed dB, flights per day passing within 2 km, and an hourly breakdown.

The Noise Heatmap layer (orange/red = louder) and the Route Density layer (purple/magenta = busier corridors) make the two north-south corridors and the diagonal 13/31 band obvious. Most addresses west of the field on the downtown side, or well south-west toward Brentwood and Forest Hills, will land in the quieter green zone; the homes to check most carefully are those along the runway ends in Donelson and Antioch.

For complaint follow-up, MNAA’s Department of Public Safety investigates noise reports on 615-275-1703 and runs a public WebTrak / Flight Track Monitoring System that can tie a specific overflight to the aircraft that caused it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Nashville airport noise complaint phone number?: Noise complaints for BNA go to the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) Department of Public Safety, Complaint Investigations, on 615-275-1703, or online via flynashville.com. MNAA also runs a Flight Track Monitoring System and WebTrak so staff can match your report to the actual aircraft track.
Is Donelson loud from BNA airport?: Yes — Donelson is one of the most consistently affected areas. It sits directly off the north end of the parallel 2/20 runways, so in south flow it takes the arrival descent and in north flow it takes the departure climb-out. Either way, low jets pass over much of the day. Drop a pin on the map above to see how your specific street compares.
Why are planes so loud over East Nashville and Inglewood?: Both sit on the north/northwest side of the field, under departures that turn out from runways 31 and 02 and under turning arrival tracks. Since the FAA's NextGen routes have narrowed flight paths, the same turns now happen over the same neighborhoods more repeatedly, which is why the noise can feel more concentrated than it used to.
Antioch and Una flight path noise — how bad is it?: Antioch sits under the south end of the 2/20 corridor, so it catches departure climb-outs in south flow (common in warmer months) and approaches in north flow. Una is just off the centerline edge of the same south corridor and is a notch quieter. Use the pin-drop tool above for an address-level estimate.
What is north flow versus south flow at Nashville airport?: BNA's parallel 2/20 runways run roughly north-northeast to south-southwest. In south flow, aircraft depart toward the south-southwest over Antioch and Una while arrivals descend over Donelson; in north flow this reverses, with departures over Donelson and Hermitage and arrivals over Antioch. Wind decides which is in use, and warmer months tend toward south flow.
Which Nashville neighborhoods are quietest for aircraft noise?: Areas west of the field on the downtown side — Green Hills, Berry Hill, Forest Hills — and far southwestern suburbs like Brentwood sit off the main north-south runway corridors and mostly catch lateral or high-altitude noise. The most affected areas are Donelson, Antioch and Hermitage close to the runway ends.
How do I use the Nashville airport flight tracker?: MNAA operates a public WebTrak / Flight Track Monitoring System that shows aircraft positions and lets you correlate a noise event with a specific flight before filing a complaint. The pin-drop map on this page is a complementary tool — it shows the cumulative noise and flight-density pattern at any address rather than a single live flight.

Sources and further reading

Nashville International Airport — Wikipedia — Wikipedia
AirNav — KBNA Nashville International Airport (runway and noise abatement data) — AirNav
DPS Complaint Investigations — Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
BNA Noise Exposure Map 2020 (flight tracks, north/south flow, runway usage) — Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
Nashville International Airport (BNA) — Federal Aviation Administration

Data updated 2026-10-18 — live ADS-B monitoring, rolling 30-day statistics (methodology). Article text revised 2026-05-30.

30 dB	Whisper
45 dB	Quiet residential
55 dB	Normal conversation
65 dB	Busy road
75 dB	Vacuum cleaner
85 dB	Heavy traffic
95 dB	Motorcycle nearby

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