Flightradar24

aid: flightradar24
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name: Flightradar24
type: Index
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tags:
- Aviation
- Flight Tracking
- Real-Time
- Aircraft
- Airports
- Airlines
- ADS-B
- Historical Data
description: Flightradar24 is the world's most popular real-time flight tracking platform, monitoring over 250,000 daily flights
  using data from a global network of ADS-B, MLAT, and radar receivers. The FR24 API provides developers with programmatic
  access to live aircraft positions, historical flight data, flight summaries, and reference data for airports and airlines.
  The credit-based subscription API uses Bearer token authentication and is available at https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  with three tiers — Explorer, Essential, and Advanced — covering hobby projects through high-volume commercial applications.
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- 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
- aid: flightradar24:live-flights-full
  name: Live Flights Full
  description: Returns complete real-time aircraft flight movement records including latitude, longitude, speed, altitude,
    and heading alongside enriched flight information such as origin and destination airports, callsign, aircraft registration,
    aircraft type, operator, and flight number. Supports the same geographic and identifier-based filters as the Light endpoint
    and is suited for applications requiring full flight context alongside positional data.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Live
  - Real-Time
  - Aircraft Positions
  - Flight Details
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:historical-flights-light
  name: Historical Flights Light
  description: Provides historical aircraft positional data using Unix timestamp ranges. Returns lightweight position records
    (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading, callsign, registration) for past flights. Historical data coverage extends
    back to May 11, 2016, with availability depending on the subscription plan. Useful for replay, audit, and analytics use
    cases.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Historical
  - Aircraft Positions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:historical-flights-full
  name: Historical Flights Full
  description: Returns full historical aircraft flight movement records for a given time window, combining positional data
    with enriched flight metadata including origin, destination, callsign, registration, aircraft type, and operator. Data
    is accessible back to May 11, 2016 depending on the subscription tier. Available on Essential and Advanced plans.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Historical
  - Aircraft Positions
  - Flight Details
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:flight-summaries
  name: Flight Summaries
  description: Returns synopses of individual flights including key event timings and locations such as actual takeoff and
    landing times, departure and arrival airports, and primary flight, aircraft, and operator identifiers. Available in both
    near-real-time and historical modes. Useful for operations dashboards, delay analytics, and flight history lookups. Queryable
    by date range, flight number, callsign, registration, or airport pair.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Summaries
  - Departures
  - Arrivals
  - Historical
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:flight-tracks
  name: Flight Tracks
  description: Returns the full positional track of a specific flight identified by its FR24 flight ID. Provides a time-ordered
    sequence of latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and heading records spanning the entire flight from departure to arrival.
    Useful for route visualisation, fuel burn estimation, and incident investigation.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Tracks
  - Route
  - Historical
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:airports
  name: Airports
  description: Returns detailed reference data for airports worldwide, including full airport name, IATA and ICAO codes, geographic
    coordinates, elevation, country, city, state, and timezone. Supports lookup by IATA or ICAO code. Useful for enriching
    flight data with human-readable location information and for building airport directory features.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airports
  - Reference Data
  - IATA
  - ICAO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- aid: flightradar24:airlines
  name: Airlines
  description: Returns reference data for airlines including airline name, IATA code, and ICAO code. Supports lookup by identifier.
    Useful for resolving callsign prefixes and operator codes present in flight data into human-readable airline names for
    display and reporting purposes.
  humanURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  baseURL: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/api
  tags:
  - Airlines
  - Reference Data
  - IATA
  - ICAO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
common:
- type: Portal
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/endpoints
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/getting-started
- type: Authentication
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/authentication
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/sandbox-environment
- type: Pricing
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/subscriptions-and-credits
- type: FAQ
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/faq
- type: UseCases
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/examples-and-use-cases
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/b2b/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.fr24.com/support/solutions/folders/3000022922
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24
- type: SDKPython
  url: https://fr24api.flightradar24.com/docs/sdk/python
- type: SDKJavaScript
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24/fr24api-sdk-js
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://github.com/Flightradar24/fr24api-mcp
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/openapi/openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/flight-position-light.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/flight-summary-full.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-schema/airport-full.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightradar24/main/json-ld/context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com