Flightradar24

Live Flights Light

Returns a lightweight snapshot of real-time aircraft positions worldwide, including latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, and aircraft registration. Optimised for mapping use cases that require low-latency positional data without the full set of flight metadata. Supports filtering by geographic bounding box, callsign, registration, airline, airport pair, aircraft type, and altitude range.

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Documentation
https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
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Authentication
https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: flightradar24:live-flights-light
name: Live Flights Light
description: Returns a lightweight snapshot of real-time aircraft positions worldwide, including latitude,
  longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, and aircraft registration. Optimised for mapping use
  cases that require low-latency positional data without the full set of flight metadata. Supports filtering
  by geographic bounding box, callsign, registration, airline, airport pair, aircraft type, and altitude
  range.
humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
tags:
- Flights
- Live
- Real-Time
- Aircraft Positions
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
- type: Authentication
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication