Data / Archive
Historical archive
FlyItalyADSB keeps the flight tracks collected by the network since 2022: position, altitude, speed and heading for every aircraft over time. All of it is available self-serve through the REST API, no access request needed.
Archive contents
Tracks of every aircraft
One JSON file per aircraft per day, in readsb’s format: position, altitude, speed and heading through the day.
since 2022-04-10 · ~2.5 GB/day · all self-serveWind and temperature from Mode-S (weather32)
The weather32 project, now complete, worked out upper-air wind and temperature from Mode-S BDS50/60 messages (true airspeed, magnetic heading, IAS, Mach number) and compared them with ERA5 and IASI. It was a research analysis: the raw data is not a downloadable dataset.
See the research results →Coverage
The tracks come from three different sources, at different levels of detail. There is currently no data available between late June 2024 and mid-August 2026.
Only the first and last point of each flight: the segment in between is an estimate, drawn dashed on the map. Every file has "version": "vrs-basestation-import/1". 529 days.
Full track, with gaps: 206 days in all. September 2023 is missing; August 2023 and June 2024 are partial (15 and 5 days); February and April 2024 have 2 and 1 days. On the 26 days shared with the VRS period, the API returns the full track.
Full track, updated every day.
Downloading tracks
| GET /v2/history/{icao} | The dates with tracks available for an aircraft, across the whole covered period. |
| GET /v2/history/{icao}/{date} | The tracks (position, altitude, speed, heading) of one aircraft on one day. |
Same API key and plan limits as the rest of /v2/* —
see the API documentation for how to get a key.
The X-History-Source header
says where the day came from: local (the
server’s disk) or r2 (the archive); for today, live (the track readsb is writing) or store (an aircraft readsb no longer receives: position, altitude and callsign only). The first
request for an archived day may take a little longer.
Larger extracts
For bulk extracts (many aircraft or long periods) or university/institutional research projects, write to us with a description of your project.
Contact us →Distributed data is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution required; derivatives under the same license. MLAT military data: verify applicability before public use.
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Infrastructure: Nesso Labs · nessolabs.it