ADS-B Exchange supports a broad range of flight data use cases.
For millions of Americans living under busy flight paths, aircraft noise is more than a nuisance — it’s a persistent, documented quality-of-life issue that traditional complaint systems have made frustratingly difficult to address.
Filing a noise complaint typically requires recalling flight details, navigating an airport’s web portal, creating an account, and manually entering information about an aircraft that may have already disappeared from view. Most people give up. The data never reaches the people with the authority to act on it.
AirNoise was created to change that. The platform automates the complaint process — a user simply clicks a button, sends a text, or taps an icon, and AirNoise identifies the nearest aircraft and files a formal complaint directly with the relevant airport authority on the user’s behalf. The result is a dramatically lower barrier to participation and a far richer stream of community noise data for airports, regulators, and advocates to act on.
AirNoise uses ADS-B data to power its aircraft identification capability. As AirNoise explains, when a user triggers a complaint, the system searches for aircraft near the user’s registered address using ADS-B data, identifying the correct aircraft “well over 95% of the time” for commercial and business aviation. ADS-B Exchange is the data partner that makes this possible, providing the real-time, transparent flight data feed that AirNoise’s identification and complaint-routing logic depends on.
- Instant identification: The moment a user initiates a complaint, AirNoise queries flight data to match the nearest aircraft to the precise time and location — no manual flight number lookup required.
- Broad aircraft coverage: ADS-B Exchange’s transparent data feed helps AirNoise identify a wide range of aircraft types, giving community members a better chance of attributing noise events accurately.
- Civic impact at scale: Every complaint filed through AirNoise contributes to a growing body of community-sourced noise data that airports, FAA NextGen program managers, and local advocates can use to assess real-world impact and push for operational changes.
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ADS-B Exchange's commitment to providing accurate, transparent flight data makes it the right foundation for platforms like AirNoise — tools that give ordinary people a meaningful voice in how the airspace above their homes is managed.