AeroDataBox // Aviation and Flight API
✓ best-effort, enthusiast-driven aviation and flight data API
✓ suited best for individual developers, small teams and businesses, researchers, or students
✓ not oversold, not overpromised, low cost
🗓️ Flights 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 Alert API
Flight Subscription & Alert API
PUSH API powered by webhooks. If you are running your own web service, you can subscribe to flights by number or airport code. After that, your HTTP endpoint will be called whenever the flight information 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. - Airline Fleet
List of active aircraft of an airline - 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).
🌨️ Miscellaneous API
- Local Time at the Airport
Get local time by specifying just an IATA or ICAO code of the airport. - Solar and Day Time at the Airport
Calculation of sunset, sunrise, civil, nautical and astronomical dusk / dawn times, golden and blue hours, sun elevation and azimuth. - Distance & Flight Time between Airports
Calculate great-circle distance and approximate flight time on a commercial jet between specified airports. - Weather / Forecast at the Airport
Current weather and forecast for up to 48 hours, METARs, TAFs
🌎 Airports 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.
📊 Statistical API
- 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. - Global 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? - Flight Delay Statistics
How often is the flight delayed and how much?
Getting Started
At the moment, AeroDataBox API is provided only through 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 as you have an account on RapidAPI.
Coming soon: we’re working to make API available via other platforms. Stay tuned!
Is it Good for Me?
Is an enthusiast-driven API good for your case? That depends!
If you’re developing a small aviation or hospitality application or website that does not have much demand for data precision, quality and service stability, our API might be just right for you! However, you are 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.
Documentation
Technical documentation for our API is available in two locations: on the 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 allows 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.