Data Products

The Most Extensive Source of Real-Time Global Flight Tracking Data

ADS-B Exchange offers four distinct data subscription products built to deliver complete, transparent visibility into global aircraft activity. You can consume it live and at scale or structured for deep analysis.

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Purpose-built for real-world flight data operations

Our data products provide direct access to aircraft movements worldwide, optimized for speed, precision, or completeness.

Real-time decision-making

Real-time
decision-making

Stream live aircraft positions into your systems with updates every 500ms.

Operational awareness

Operational
awareness

Track activity by airport, region, or airspace with location-based filtering.

Historical insights

Historical
insights

Work with complete datasets to analyze trends or train models.

Live and historical aircraft data for tracking, monitoring, and analysis, delivered via API and data feeds.

Live data

The most up-to-date information, refreshing every 500ms

Live
positions

Ultra-low-latency global aircraft positions delivered every 500 milliseconds, built for high-volume, real-time tracking at worldwide scale.

Live
operations

Precision real-time operational data enriched with departure and arrival context, optimized for localized airspace awareness and decision-making.
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Daily data

The most comprehensive data set, refreshing every 24 hours

Daily
positions

The world’s most complete high-fidelity record of global aircraft positions, capturing every movement for deep historical analysis and reconstruction.

Daily
operations

A comprehensive, BI-ready daily feed of completed flight events, delivering the clearest global view of aircraft activity from origin to destination.
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Our software powers organizations across a broad range of industries.

Air Cargo and Logistics

Improved on-time delivery, reduced uncertainty, better schedule adherence.

Air Cargo and Logistics

Ideal for

Real-time aircraft visibility

Track the live location and operational status of cargo aircraft worldwide to anticipate arrivals, departures, and disruptions.

Route and performance analysis

Use real-time and historical flight paths to evaluate routing efficiency, transit times, and delivery reliability.

How it helps:

  • Higher on-time delivery performance
  • Reduced arrival uncertainty and ground dwell time
  • Improved facility and ramp utilization rates
  • Better schedule adherence across global cargo networks

Aircraft Dealers
and Brokers

Enables more accurate valuations, faster execution, and better insights.

Aircraft Dealers
and Brokers

Ideal for

Valuation and market analysis

Use historical and live flight data to assess utilization and asset value.

Buyer and seller identification

Understand fleet activity and ownership dynamics.

How it helps:

  • More accurate valuations
  • Faster deal execution
  • Improved market insight

Airlines

Improves on-time performance, speeds recovery, and reduces compliance risk.

Airlines

Ideal for:

Network operations and disruption management

Use real-time, high-fidelity flight data to manage complex networks, respond to IROPs, and maintain operational control.

Regulatory and operational compliance

Verify aircraft movements, airspace usage, and operational adherence across global fleets.

How it helps:

  • Improved on-time performance
  • Faster disruption response and recovery
  • Reduced compliance and reporting risk

Airports

Reduces congestion, improves utilization, and enables smarter capital planning.

Airports

Ideal for:

Traffic flow and congestion analysis

Monitor aircraft movements to understand runway utilization, bottlenecks, and sequencing performance.

Capacity and infrastructure planning

Use historical movement data to support long-term planning and expansion decisions.

How it helps:

  • Reduced congestion and delays
  • Improved runway and gate utilization
  • Better-informed capital planning

Analysts & Consultants

Builds analytical credibility, accelerates insights, and strengthens recommendations.

Analysts & Consultants

Ideal for:

Market and competitive analysis

Leverage clean historical and real-time flight data for benchmarking and market insight.

Trend and activity modeling

Understand fleet behavior, growth patterns, and operational shifts.

How it helps:

  • Stronger analytical credibility
  • Faster insight generation
  • More defensible client recommendations

Aviation Finance

Reduces asset risk, strengthens oversight, and protects residual value.

Aviation Finance

Ideal for:

Utilization and asset risk monitoring

Verify aircraft use, deployment, and exposure across financed assets.

Residual value protection

Use movement data to inform long-term asset risk and value models.

How it helps:

  • Reduced asset risk
  • Stronger portfolio oversight
  • Better residual value protection

Aviation Services

Improves reliability, reduces blind spots, and enhances analytics value.

Aviation Services

Ideal for:

Operational visibility for service delivery

Embed trusted flight data into service workflows to improve timing, coordination, and execution.

Safety and analytics enablement

Support safety monitoring and analytics for downstream aviation services.

How it helps:

  • Improved service reliability
  • Reduced operational blind spots
  • Enhanced value of embedded analytics

Aviation Specialists

Improves underwriting, enables data-driven premiums, and reduces losses.

Aviation Specialists

Ideal for:

Operational compliance and risk assessment

Verify insured operations against geographic, altitude, and operational limits while analyzing flight behavior, traffic density, and operating environments to quantify risk.

Incident reconstruction and claims validation

Use ADS-B and ACAS/TCAS event data with real-time and historical flight paths to reconstruct incidents, establish liability, and support faster claims decisions.

How it helps:

  • Improved underwriting accuracy and risk segmentation
  • Data-driven premium adjustments tied to actual operating behavior
  • Faster claims investigation and resolution cycles
  • Reduced loss ratios through verified compliance and exposure analysis

Charter & Management

Improves quotes and ETAs, boosts dispatch efficiency, strengthens safety.

Charter & Management

Ideal for

Dispatch and operational coordination

Use real-time telemetry to manage fleet movements, ETAs, and day-of-operations decisions.

Quoting and safety oversight

Validate aircraft availability, utilization, and operational behavior to support pricing and safety workflows.

How it helps:

  • More accurate quotes and ETAs
  • Improved dispatch efficiency
  • Stronger operational safety control

Charter Brokers

Delivers accurate quotes, reduces trip risk, and improves satisfaction.

Charter Brokers

Ideal for:

Trip feasibility and operator selection

Validate fleet activity and availability to support quoting and operator decisions.

Operational confidence

Confirm aircraft positioning and movement history.

How it helps:

  • More accurate quotes
  • Reduced trip risk
  • Improved customer satisfaction

Energy / Fuel Companies

Boosts fuel revenue, improves inventory, and strengthens logistics efficiency.

Energy / Fuel Companies

Ideal for:

Uplift demand forecasting and supply planning

Use real-time aircraft movements and arrivals to anticipate uplift demand by airport/FBO, align inventory and trucking, and reduce shortages or overstock.

Customer capture and network optimization

Use historical, high-fidelity flight path traces to understand traffic patterns, operator behavior, and route networks—informing contracting, pricing, and where to expand supply.

How it helps:

  • Higher fuel capture rate and revenue per location
  • Improved inventory accuracy and reduced stockouts
  • Better logistics efficiency (dispatch and delivery utilization)
  • Stronger contracting decisions driven by verified traffic patterns

Fixed Based Operators

Increases fuel capture, improves planning, and strengthens competitiveness.

Fixed Based Operators

Ideal for

Traffic visibility and competitive insight

Track inbound and outbound aircraft activity to understand traffic patterns and customer behavior.

Fuel and resource planning

Anticipate demand to optimize staffing, fuel uplift, and ground services.

How it helps:

  • Increased fuel and service capture
  • Better staffing and inventory planning
  • Improved competitive positioning

Government / Contractor

Speeds response times, improves visibility, and reduces mission risk.

Government / Contractor

Ideal for:

Situational awareness and oversight

Monitor aircraft activity to support operational awareness and mission oversight.

Emergency and incident coordination

Use real-time data to support response and coordination efforts.

How it helps:

  • Faster response times
  • Improved operational visibility
  • Reduced mission risk

Manufacturers

Improves post-delivery visibility, insights, and customer support intelligence.

Manufacturers

Ideal for

Fleet oversight and performance monitoring

Track delivered aircraft to understand utilization, operating environments, and lifecycle behavior.

Embedded analytics and diagnostics

Incorporate movement data into OEM platforms and tools.

How it helps:

  • Better post-delivery visibility
  • Improved product insight and feedback loops
  • Stronger customer support intelligence

Media & Associations

Improves reporting accuracy, speeds verification, and builds audience trust.

Media & Associations

Ideal for:

Accurate aviation reporting

Use verified aircraft movement data to support news coverage and industry reporting.

Industry insight and storytelling

Add context and credibility to aviation narratives and trend analysis.

How it helps:

  • More accurate reporting
  • Faster fact verification
  • Increased audience trust

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Which of our products
is right for you

  Need speed at scale?
Live Positions		 Need precision at specific locations?
Live Operations		 Need every movement, everywhere?
Daily Positions		 Need analysis-ready flight activity?
Daily Operations
  Best for:

  • Real-time tracking
  • Monitoring
  • Live systems at scale
 Best for:

  • Operational decision-making
  • Airport/regional ops
 Best for:

  • Reconstruction
  • Modelling
  • Deep historical analysis
 Best for:

  • Business & market intelligence
  • Reporting
  • Trend analysis
Data Type Aircraft positions Positions + flight context Aircraft positions Completed flight events
Update Frequency Choose 5s or 500ms Every 500ms Every 500ms (daily rollup) Daily
Coverage Scope Global, Regional & Fleet Options Localized (≤50nm) Global, Regional & Fleet Options Global
Primary Focus Speed & volume Precision & context Completeness & fidelity Insight & analysis
Delivery Method API, gRPC (streaming) API JSON, CSV CSV
Filtering Options Pre-filtered endpoints Location-based Full dataset Pre-structured events
Internal Note on Product Name ADS-B API & gRPC Flight Data API ADS-B Historical Daily Flight Events Blend

Our data products are delivered as ongoing subscription services with minimum annual commitments, supporting production systems and long-term analysis. Historical backfills for up to 10 years are available to subscription customers only. ADS-B Exchange does not offer one-time data extracts or project-based access.

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API Documentation

API Documentation

Explore our API documentation, covering endpoints, authentication, and integration guides.

API Sample

Sample API call

View a sample JSON API call – see the full data response structure.

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Sample Data

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What our
customers say

We set out to build an aerial system that unlocks a new concept of operations for drones, allowing aircraft to operate as part of real aviation infrastructure. As those capabilities emerge, drones must become visible within the same airspace awareness tools used by pilots. Our partnership with ADS-B Exchange helps create a shared airspace picture across crewed and uncrewed aviation.

Brian Hinman ,Founder and CEOSiFly

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