AeroDataBox – Aviation and Flight Data API
✓ best-effort, enthusiast-driven aviation and flight data API
✓ suited best for individual developers, small teams and businesses, researchers, or students
✓ also freemium and low cost
Flight API
- FIDS & Schedules
Current, future, and historical flights per airport. - Flight Status & Schedule
Current, future, and historical flight information found by a flight number, ATC call-sign, aircraft registration, or 24-bit ICAO Mode-S address. - Flight Dates
Days when a flight commences, found by a flight number, ATC call sign, aircraft registration, or 24-bit ICAO Mode-S address. - Flight Delay Statistics
How often is the flight delayed?
Flight Alert API
Flight Subscription & Alert API
PUSH API, powered by webhooks. If you are running your own web service, you can subscribe to groups or individual flights either by flight number or by the ICAO code of the airport where these flights commence. After that, the HTTP endpoint you specified upon subscription will be called whenever any flight information (including time or status) gets updated.
Aircraft API
- Aircraft
Aircraft information by aircraft tail number (registration) or 24-bit ICAO Mode-S address. - Aircraft Registrations
History of current and all previous registrations of an aircraft found by aircraft tail number (registration) or 24-bit ICAO Mode-S address. - Aircraft Photo
Aircraft image by tail number (registration). - Identify an Aircraft by a Photo
Aircraft information found by uploading an aircraft photo containing a visible tail number (registration).
Airport API
- Airport
Airport reference information by IATA or ICAO codes. This includes name, location, administrative information, elevation, etc. - Airport Runways
Information about airport runways: threshold, dimensions, lighting, surface, number, heading, etc. Can be found by IATA or ICAO codes of the airport. - Search of Closest Airports by Location
Find airports closest to a specific location (latitude, longitude). - Search of Closest Airports by IP Geolocation
Geolocate an IP address and find airports closest to this location - Airports Free-text Search
Lookup for an airport by free text. Useful for implementing auto-complete. - Airport Local Time
Get local time by specifying just an IATA or ICAO code of the airport. - Airport delay statistics
How many flights are delayed or canceled right now or in the past? Delay statistics and delay index at an airport now and back then. - Global airport delays
How many flights are delayed or canceled right now or in the past? Delay statistics and delay index at an airport now and back then. - Airport Daily Routes Statistics
Where flights are going from this airport and how many flights a day occur in these directions? - Distance & Flight Time between Airports
Calculate great-circle distance and approximate flight time on a commercial jet between specified airports.
Documentation
Technical documentation for our aero API is currently available in two locations: on RapidAPI Hub and on the official documentation website.
On RapidAPI Hub you will be able to shoot testing requests directly to our live API with your personal API key, which will allow you to test the data extensively.
On the documentation website, you will find much more detailed information about each endpoint, including a description of each request and response contract. You can as well download an OpenAPI v3 JSON specification to make API integration with your application easier.
Getting Started
Is an enthusiast-driven API good for your case? Well, that depends!
If you’re developing a small aviation or hospitality application or website that has not much demand for data precision and quality, our API may be just right for you! However, you are strongly discouraged, and even not allowed in some cases, to use our API for mission-critical products, especially if your product is involved with real-life aircraft operations or navigation! Read more in our FAQ.
At the moment AeroDataBox API is provided exclusively via RapidAPI – a platform where you can find and connect to thousands of APIs with one API key.
You can subscribe and start using our aero API for free as soon as you have an account on RapidAPI.
