Airframes

Transport tracking & aggregation via community efforts.
ACARS, VDL, HFDL, SATCOM, AIS, Sonde (aircrafts, balloons, ships).
Unblocked, unfiltered, uncontrolled.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

We’re not even halfway through 2025, and here’s what things look like at @AirframesIO so far.

AVIATION
✈️ Over 1 billion messages tracked (excluding non-ACARS)
✈️ Over 290 million flight positions logged
✈️ Over 9 million flights tracked
Compared to all of 2024, that’s:
🔼 20% more flights
🔼 289% more flight positions (thanks to improved decoder algorithms)
🔼 18% more messages

MARINE
🚢 Over 1 billion messages tracked
🚢 Over 1.1 million voyages recorded
🚢 Over 837 million voyage positions collected
That’s:
🔼 999% more messages than in all of 2024
🔼 1% more voyages
❓ 837 million positions—still checking how that compares to 2024

We’re basically eating all we can, and we’ll keep going. Work is underway to better store historical data and open it up for search and exploration.

Assuming continued support, more formats are coming soon—and more types of data in aviation, marine, and beyond.

Huge thanks to everyone contributing data and financial support. You're the reason this exists.

Expect some interesting news in the next update.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

A call to air geeks, we need more coverage north and south of Miami, FL!

[thebaldgeek @thebaldgeek]

My site does not have anyone feeding from there, and it looks like @AirframesIO only has some feeders north of Miami. (Usual call for more ACARS ground stations-please and thanks).
Looking at the search does not show anything obvious.
Click this search link and see what you can find.
https://t.co/oPltzkGawA

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@thebaldgeek @thenewarea51 @saulrichman @cubomat Definitely need more coverage there.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@oliviscusAI Does it decode aircraft and other stuff like that? Any chance they can add output for Airframes? https://t.co/saQoULUFFk — happy to help!

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

Fix is in and tested!

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

API Key Provisioning Issue

We have identified an issue provisioning API keys, and we are actively working on the fix. This is a clear issue and we should have this remedied within the next 1-2 hours (need to test in staging to ensure it works properly first).

I recognize that when you pay for something and have confusion/challenges to use what you paid for, it leads to a bad experience. That never sits well with me. Paid Pro and Business Tier users who were impacted will be receiving extra free time (2 months) as compensation (and we'll also send out emails to each once complete and credits issued).

Thanks, as always, for your patience and support. The public consumer API is still very fresh, and we expect there will be further issues as we continue to scale it out.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

Lots of users using the Airframes API to augment their #OSINT research. We've got an MCP server coming soon that will use your API key.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@ravikiran_dev7 https://t.co/mG9g0jCyVy of course!

[thebaldgeek @thebaldgeek]

Take 1min 45 sec out of your day and check out this video!!
Super proud Dad moment. The KRIV Iridium is hosted by my son, and the HC610 has been sitting on the bottom rail since he moved in.
With @ElbaSatGuy and @cemaxecuter big jump in position decoding, I asked him to mount it on the top rail. This is the process he took for #avgeek and #osint
Totally knocked it out of the park! Huge jump in range.

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

👀

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

Emails have been sent!

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

10 million requests on the unpublished API in the last month.

Yes, it exists. The API isn't technically released/documented, but we have it. Full documentation is coming right after we golden seal the current API version. And after that, the selective SSE/WS for Pro/Feeder and above tiers are coming for more realtime data.

The growth is due to a few reasons:

* A suspicious IP in China (unclear purpose) uses 4x the next highest (which is Google) crawling every possible endpoint for all data. It was blocked tonight. We will start aggressively banning abusers like this in the future.

* Amazing feeders and new Pro subscribers, hobbyists, and experimenters using the free and non-free tiers. The true purpose and meaning for Airframes to exist is to have a place where we can collate and exchange the data amongst each other. The free feeder tier will soon be growing to the business level (due to improvements in performance, and over time as scale can afford it). -- There are still some issues around API key provisioning reported (but in the interim, Pro users can use the API Key button in the Dashboard)

* Community partners we've extended access to (including firehose which is not counted for here). These are always great reasons to share!

* Commercial licensees. A couple of new commercial licenses have been agreed on and licensed access. We'll expand on these more in the future, but for now I can say that FlightDeck on the Apple App Store is one of them.

* Search engines and AI model building are likely candidates, but evidence so far is existent but minimal. I expect this will grow signfiicantly in the near future, and we'll try to figure out a good solution there.

As most of you know, we are trying to make this community and ecosystem (Airframes and other communities) become sustainable and keep its relevance and value high.

My intentions are to keep costs for the platform low (we are making efforts there), provide value (data access, keep UI interesting and useful, return insights), and stay true to community vibes and interests.

We have a lot of updates coming. In testing/staging we have a significant upgrade to the aggregator layer (ingests, processors, supporting microservices) that will improve overall platform performance, stability, and ultimately BETTER and MORE data for you.

Thanks for being a part of the journey and your support. It's been a lot of late nights, aggravating moments, and neverending challenges, but as always, the best is coming ...

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@joni_vrbt Deal :)

https://t.co/aV1V3fkuj6

I will check the other projects now!

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@suni_code https://t.co/aV1V3fkuj6 — democratic access to what aircraft flights and marine vessels are actually up to in the world.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

There is a considerable support for you and Airframes by a lot of well intentioned people. There is u fortunately a band of devious folks that just want to complain or steal or otherwise make life hard for both of us. But we do it for the first group of people and it keeps us moving forward. Thanks for holding strong.

[thebaldgeek @thebaldgeek]

Ok, seems a few people are complaining (a few are yelling) at me that some feeds are down.
Take a look at the status page.
https://t.co/1x7eGUzB5n
All L-Band feeds are up, the two current C-Band feeds are also up.
I will take a look a bit deeper and see, but all my monitoring metrics /graphs are showing all-systems go.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

Are you an aeronautical/aerospace organization that wants to support Airframes? Consider sponsoring.

Sponsorship allows Airframes to continue to subsidize its existence, continue to focus on innovative and relevant development and growth, and gives your org some exposure while showing the community you've got love for it all.

Check it out:
https://t.co/mhupQRJiVM

Even if you're not an org, just a fan, perhaps you can encourage an org you know to support the effort!

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@LexnLin @kevinelliott What @kevinelliott is suggesting is that we could use this for creating a beautiful airport flight board using the data at https://t.co/vKbM0gBJEI or similar :)

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

@ondacorta @gomezjl @thebaldgeek Let us know how we can help and be more useful.

[Airframes @AirframesIO]

Airframes is about much more than just the location of aircraft. It's about all the other data. Come support the effort!