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Getapiaircraftv2Icao
Getapiaircraftv2Icao
This endpoint will return aircraft data for the provided ICAO code(s). This will not return a match if aircraft has not been seen by ADSB Exchange in the last 15 minutes.
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Getapiaircraftv2Icao is an example object payload from ADS-B Exchange, with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
operationId summary description method path parameters responses
Example Payload
{
"operationId": "GetApiAircraftV2Icao",
"summary": "Get aircraft by ICAO",
"description": "This endpoint will return aircraft data for the provided ICAO code(s). This will not return a match if aircraft has not been seen by ADSB Exchange in the last 15 minutes.",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/icao/{icao}",
"parameters": [
{
"name": "icao",
"in": "path",
"required": true,
"description": "ICAO code of the aircraft, or coma-separated list of aircraft ICAO codes.",
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"x-position": 1
},
{
"type": "string",
"name": "Accept-Encoding",
"in": "header",
"required": true,
"description": "The encoding type the client will accept in the response. API call must use compression.",
"default": "gzip",
"example": "gzip"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "Response containing a collection of aircraft models.",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/AircraftCollectionResponse"
},
"example": {}
},
"402": {
"description": "Payment Required",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiUnauthorizedResponse"
},
"example": {}
},
"403": {
"description": "Forbidden",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiForbiddenResponse"
},
"example": {}
},
"414": {
"description": "Requested URL is too long",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/RequestedUrlTooLongResponse"
},
"example": {}
},
"429": {
"description": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiTooManyRequestsResponse"
},
"example": {}
},
"500": {
"description": "Server Error",
"content_type": "application/json",
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails"
},
"example": {}
}
}
}
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