ADS-B Exchange is often used as a source by national and international media, as well as NGOs and investigative agencies conducting studies. Below are some stories we’ve contributed data to and/or been cited in.
- Bloomberg – Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted as FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals
- Politico – Growing popularity of flight tracking sites has billionaires worried.
- Business Insider – From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to Taylor Swift and Tim Cook, here’s how celebrities are dodging jet-tracking Twitter accounts
- Business Insider – Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying new ways to dodge jet-tracking Twitter accounts — but its not a ‘silver bullet’
- No, Germany Did Not Deny RAF C-17s Bound For Ukraine Access to Its Airspace
- Assets in Flight – Libya’s Flying Treasuries
- Libyan Militia Leader Ideal Client for Venezuela’s Gold-for-Dollars Deals
- Libya’s Khalifa Haftar punishing critics in ‘sham’ military trials, Amnesty says
“Rights group says ‘sham, tourture-tained’ trials, which have seen at least 22 people sentenced to death since 2018, are aimed at punishing opponents and critics of eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar.”
With the help of our volunteer feeder network, we track the jet he often uses…. (seen here)
- Crimes of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex in the Central Mediterranean Sea – Insights into their ongoing and unpunished aerial complicity in human rights violations
- EU Border Agency Frontex Complicit in Greek Refugee Pushback Campaign
- DHS Flew Surveillance helicopters over protests
- What We Know About The High-Altitude Balloons Recently Lingering Off America’s Coastlines
- NY Times: A Teenager tracked Elon Musk’s Jet on Twitter. Then came the direct message.
- Chicago Tribune – Landmarks: Transportation fan or not, flight tracking sites show the sky is full of stories
- AP News: Pilot who helped Maduro allies evade US sanctions sentenced
- AZ Mirror: National Guard flew surveillance aircraft over Black Lives Matter protests
- Yes, U.S. RC-135s Have Used Bogus Hex Codes To Transmit A False Identity. But It’s Not To Fool China Or Other Enemies.
- The privilege of pandemic private jets. How wealthy Canadians travelled during COVID-19
- The Mysterious Case Of The Air Force’s New Strangely Modified 737 With A Puzzling Past
- Images Show U-2 That Flew Intriguing Flight Over California Was Equipped With A Panoramic Camera
- Here’s Why Aggressor Learjets Were Making Mock Attack Runs Towards Philly Last Night
- The First Privately Owned F-16 Aggressor Jet Has Taken To The Sky
- “Pseudo Satellite” plane completes test in Arizona desert, worries privacy advocates
- CNN: US government spy planes monitored George Floyd protests
- CNN: (uses ADSBx site at 1:30 in this news clip re: Ukraine)
- NPR: Fog of War Podcast – Discussion starts at 20:30
- F35 Over Poland without radar reflectors
- The Simple Flying Podcast Episode 115: Simple Flying Meets ADSB Exchange
- Business Insider: Top CO2 Emitting Celebrity Jets
- Rolling Stone – Celebrity CO2 Emissions
- The Guardian – From celebrity jets to Pelosi’s Taiwan trip, flight trackers are the sleeper hit of the summer
- Flight Tracking Exposure Irks Billionaires and Baddies
- Celebrities get called out for climate hypocrisy (Newsnation Interview)
ADS-B Exchange is used “unofficially” in ops centers around the world:
Holding Government Accountable:
China accuses flight tracking sites, including ADS-B Exchange, of “Espionage” for collecting publicly available transmissions: