Free real-time tracker of every airliner, military jet, helicopter, and private plane within 100 nautical miles of your location. Powered by the volunteer-run ADS-B network, no signup, your position never leaves your browser.
📡Open the live radarEvery modern aircraft carries an ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance — Broadcast) transponder. The transponder broadcasts the aircraft's identifier, position, altitude, heading, and ground speed once per second on 1090 MHz. Volunteer-run ground receivers around the world decode these broadcasts and aggregate them into free public feeds.
Our radar consumes the ADSB.lol and adsb.fi feeds, joins them against the OpenSky Network registry, fetches airframe photos from Planespotters, and pulls real-time origin and destination via the AeroDataBox API. Markers are coloured by domain (blue for civil, dark green for military, grey for unknown), with distinct shapes for helicopters, small planes, and airliners.
Your browser asks for your location once so the radar knows where to centre. The coordinates stay in your browser — they are never sent to our servers.
Yes — completely free with no signup or paywall. The radar is supported by unobtrusive display ads. Data sources (ADSB.lol, OpenSky Network, AeroDataBox, Planespotters) are either free public APIs or free-tier commercial APIs we proxy on your behalf.
No. There is no account, no email, no signup. Your location is requested in the browser only to centre the radar on you — it is never sent to our servers. Close the tab and there is no trace.
Aircraft positions come directly from ADS-B transponder broadcasts. Positions refresh every 10 seconds; between refreshes, markers are dead-reckoned forward from each aircraft's last known heading and ground speed. Accuracy is typically within 100 metres horizontally and 25 feet vertically.
FlightRadar24 and FlightAware are commercial trackers with paid premium features and signup-required tools. Our radar is free, no-signup, privacy-first, and bolted to a 5,400+ aircraft reference gallery — tap an overhead plane and jump straight to that type's history, specs, and photos. The trade-off is coverage: volunteer ADS-B networks have slightly fewer ground stations than the paid services in some regions.
The most common reasons: (1) the aircraft is outside your search radius — try increasing it up to 100 nm; (2) the aircraft is on the ground at low altitude with its transponder off; (3) it is a military aircraft transmitting only an obfuscated Mode-S code (these still appear, but without a registration or callsign); (4) it is in a region with poor volunteer feeder coverage. Most commercial flights at cruise altitude appear within seconds of takeoff.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance — Broadcast. It is a transponder protocol mandated for most aircraft worldwide. Each plane broadcasts its identifier, position, altitude, heading, and ground speed every second on 1090 MHz. Volunteer-run ground receivers decode these broadcasts and aggregate them into the free public feeds the radar consumes.
Yes — the radar is mobile-first. Its primary use case is lifting your phone outside, seeing a plane overhead, and tapping it to find out what it is. Touch-friendly markers, pinch-to-zoom, and a compact popup that fits one-handed.
Markers are colour-coded by domain: blue for civil aircraft (airlines, business jets, general aviation), dark green for military, grey for unknown. The classification uses the matched gallery record's Domain field when known, falling back to callsign-prefix heuristics (REACH, NAVY, ARMY, etc.) and a curated set of military ICAO type designators (F-22, B-2, C-17, KC-46, P-8, RQ-4, UH-60, etc.).
Live data: adsb.lol, OpenSky Network, AeroDataBox. Airframe photos: Planespotters. Map tiles: OpenStreetMap contributors. Weather radar: RainViewer. Lightning: Blitzortung / LightningMaps.
Your geolocation stays in your browser and is never sent to our servers.