adsbdb

About adsbdb

adsbdb is a public API providing aircraft, airline, and flight route data. It supports lookups of aircraft by Mode S transponder code or registration number, flight routes by ICAO or IATA callsign, and airlines by ICAO or IATA code, with combined aircraft-and-callsign queries also available. It includes conversion endpoints between N-Number and Mode S formats, random-record endpoints for aircraft, callsigns, and airlines, and endpoints for API status and usage statistics.

Responses include aircraft details such as type, manufacturer, registration, and registered owner/country, along with optional photo URLs. Flight route responses include the airline and origin, destination, and (in some cases) midpoint airport data, with airport records covering location, elevation, and IATA/ICAO codes. Flight route data is sourced from David Taylor (Edinburgh) and Jim Mason (Glasgow) and may not be copied, published, or incorporated into other databases without explicit permission; aircraft data comes from Planebase and aircraft photographs from airport-data.

The API applies rate limits calculated over a rolling 60-second window (512 requests before a 60-second block, 1024 requests before a 300-second block). A PATCH endpoint for updating aircraft or callsign entries requires an authorization header. It is intended for developers building applications that need aircraft identification or flight route lookup functionality.

Key features

• Look up aircraft details by Mode S transponder code or registration number
• Look up flight routes by IATA or ICAO callsign
• Combined single-request query for both aircraft and callsign data
• Look up airline details by ICAO or IATA code
• Convert between N-Number and Mode S formats
• Aircraft results include photo URLs and registered owner/country data

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