ADS-B Exchange · Example Payload

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

operationIdsummarydescriptionmethodpathparametersresponses

Example Payload

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{
  "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": {}
    }
  }
}