Data / Archive
Historical archive
FlyItalyADSB keeps a rolling archive of flight tracks collected by the network: position, altitude, speed and heading for every aircraft over time. Recent data is available self-serve through the REST API, no access request needed.
Archive contents
Per-aircraft position history
One JSON file per aircraft per day, generated by readsb: the aircraft's full position, altitude, speed and heading track through the day (gzip-compressed on disk; the API always returns plain, decompressed JSON). Recent days are self-serve via the API — see below; older days are moved to private storage, not yet self-serve.
~60 GB currently · growing ~2.5 GB/day · last ~18-20 days self-serveWind and temperature from Mode-S (weather-32)
The weather-32 project derives upper-air wind and temperature from Mode-S BDS50/60 messages (True Air Speed, magnetic heading, IAS, Mach number), validated against ERA5/IASI. This is a research analysis, not an exportable archive: the raw data is not organized into a downloadable dataset on request.
See the research results →Accessing Globe history
| GET /v2/history/{icao} | Dates with available history for an aircraft. |
| GET /v2/history/{icao}/{date} | Full track (position, altitude, speed, heading) for one aircraft on one day. |
Same API key and limit (100 requests/minute) as the rest of /v2/* —
see the API documentation for how to get a key.
Larger extracts or older data
For history beyond the self-serve window, bulk extracts, 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.
FlyItalyADSB (flyitalyadsb.com) · ADS-B/MLAT data · License CC BY-SA 4.0
Infrastructure: Nesso Labs · nessolabs.it