Flightradar24

aid: flightradar24
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name: Flightradar24
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: [email protected]