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By then the map covered from Sweden to Basilicata and from south-eastern France to the Czech Republic. In January JETNET, an aviation data company controlled by the fund Silversmith Capital Partners, bought ADS-B Exchange, and the open tracking community fragmented. FlyItalyADSB maintained its independence and positioned itself alongside new community players such as adsb.lol, adsb.fi and airplanes.live — all based on the same open source stack, all unfiltered. In May it joined the aggregators offered by adsb.im, the receiver software image that feeds several networks at once. With the sale of ADS-B Exchange and with adsb.im, FlyItalyADSB went global. In October a collaboration with adsb.lol began, with the two networks exchanging data, MLAT included.

Mode-S data collected by the network became the foundation of the weather32 meteorological research project, which uses aircraft as high-altitude wind sensors to validate ERA5 reanalyses and IASI profiles.

In late August the public API and the MCP server launched: the network's data can be queried from code or from an AI agent such as Claude.

Coverage is global: beyond the Italian receivers, direct feeders across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania extend the map worldwide. Today the great majority of receivers are outside Italy, where it all began. All over the world the network computes MLAT unfiltered, including military flights.