ADS-B Exchange

About ADS-B Exchange

ADS-B Exchange provides real-time and historical flight tracking data through API, streaming, and data feed products. Live data updates every 250 milliseconds and includes global aircraft positions as well as operations data enriched with departure and arrival context for localized airspace awareness. Daily data products refresh every 24 hours and include a high-fidelity historical record of aircraft positions and a BI-ready feed of completed flight events from origin to destination.

The data is delivered via API, gRPC streaming, and S3 pulls, and is intended for use in tracking, monitoring, and analysis, including trend analysis and model training on historical datasets.

The product is used across aviation-adjacent industries including air cargo and logistics, aircraft dealers and brokers, airlines, airports, analysts and consultants, aviation finance, aviation services, aviation insurance specialists, and charter operators and brokers, for use cases such as network operations, disruption management, regulatory compliance, asset valuation, congestion analysis, capacity planning, underwriting and claims validation, and dispatch coordination.

Key features

• Live global aircraft positions updated every 250 milliseconds
• Location-based filtering by airport, region, or airspace
• Daily historical position datasets for trend analysis and model training
• BI-ready daily feed of completed flight events from origin to destination
• Access via API, streaming (gRPC), and data feeds including S3 pull

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