Airframes

We’re not even halfway through 2025, and here’s what things look like at @AirframesIO so far. AVIATION ✈️ Over 1 billion messages tracked (excluding non-ACARS) ✈️ Over 290 million flight positions logged ✈️ Over 9 million flights tracked Compared to all of 2024, that’s: 🔼 20% more flights 🔼 289% more flight positions (thanks to improved decoder algorithms) 🔼 18% more messages MARINE 🚢 Over 1 billion messages tracked 🚢 Over 1.1 million voyages recorded 🚢 Over 837 million voyage positions collected That’s: 🔼 999% more messages than in all of 2024 🔼 1% more voyages ❓ 837 million positions—still checking how that compares to 2024 We’re basically eating all we can, and we’ll keep going. Work is underway to better store historical data and open it up for search and exploration. Assuming continued support, more formats are coming soon—and more types of data in aviation, marine, and beyond. Huge thanks to everyone contributing data and financial support. You're the reason this exists. Expect some interesting news in the next update.

A call to air geeks, we need more coverage north and south of Miami, FL!

@thebaldgeek @thenewarea51 @saulrichman @cubomat Definitely need more coverage there.

My site does not have anyone feeding from there, and it looks like @AirframesIO only has some feeders north of Miami. (Usual call for more ACARS ground stations-please and thanks). Looking at the search does not show anything obvious. Click this search link and see what you can find. app.airframes.io/messages/histo…

Emirates flight from Dubai to Miami declares MAYDAY at Miami International Airport this morning for low fuel. EMIRATES 213 flt (Boeing 777-300ER) was on approach to runway 09 at MIA when they had to go around due to low visibility/wind shear due to thunderstorms. They requested to divert to Ft. Lauderdale but the controller said the weather was better for runway 12 at MIA. They then said they were declaring minimum fuel and wanted to try the approach to runway 12. Bad luck ensued, a 21 Air Boeing 767 (CSB5232) did not vacate the runway in time as flt 213 was on final and tower made the Emirates 777 go-around. Now the fuel state had obviously became critical hence the MAYDAY call. One has to wonder how low they really were on fuel when they finally landed on runway 12 on the 3rd attempt. Did they even have the fuel to divert to Ft. Lauderdale without any delays there? Audio via @theATCapp & tracking via @ADSBex

@oliviscusAI Does it decode aircraft and other stuff like that? Any chance they can add output for Airframes? airframes.io — happy to help!

🚨 Someone just open-sourced a full suite for tracking satellites and decoding their radio signals 100% locally. It uses an SDR to pull weather images and raw data straight from space to your hard drive. 100% Open Source.

Fix is in and tested!

API Key Provisioning Issue We have identified an issue provisioning API keys, and we are actively working on the fix. This is a clear issue and we should have this remedied within the next 1-2 hours (need to test in staging to ensure it works properly first). I recognize that when you pay for something and have confusion/challenges to use what you paid for, it leads to a bad experience. That never sits well with me. Paid Pro and Business Tier users who were impacted will be receiving extra free time (2 months) as compensation (and we'll also send out emails to each once complete and credits issued). Thanks, as always, for your patience and support. The public consumer API is still very fresh, and we expect there will be further issues as we continue to scale it out.

Lots of users using the Airframes API to augment their #OSINT research. We've got an MCP server coming soon that will use your API key.

@ravikiran_dev7 zuffix.com of course!

Hey devs, which is the best place to buy a domain?

Take 1min 45 sec out of your day and check out this video!! Super proud Dad moment. The KRIV Iridium is hosted by my son, and the HC610 has been sitting on the bottom rail since he moved in. With @ElbaSatGuy and @cemaxecuter big jump in position decoding, I asked him to mount it on the top rail. This is the process he took for #avgeek and #osint Totally knocked it out of the park! Huge jump in range.

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Emails have been sent!

10 million requests on the unpublished API in the last month. Yes, it exists. The API isn't technically released/documented, but we have it. Full documentation is coming right after we golden seal the current API version. And after that, the selective SSE/WS for Pro/Feeder and above tiers are coming for more realtime data. The growth is due to a few reasons: * A suspicious IP in China (unclear purpose) uses 4x the next highest (which is Google) crawling every possible endpoint for all data. It was blocked tonight. We will start aggressively banning abusers like this in the future. * Amazing feeders and new Pro subscribers, hobbyists, and experimenters using the free and non-free tiers. The true purpose and meaning for Airframes to exist is to have a place where we can collate and exchange the data amongst each other. The free feeder tier will soon be growing to the business level (due to improvements in performance, and over time as scale can afford it). -- There are still some issues around API key provisioning reported (but in the interim, Pro users can use the API Key button in the Dashboard) * Community partners we've extended access to (including firehose which is not counted for here). These are always great reasons to share! * Commercial licensees. A couple of new commercial licenses have been agreed on and licensed access. We'll expand on these more in the future, but for now I can say that FlightDeck on the Apple App Store is one of them. * Search engines and AI model building are likely candidates, but evidence so far is existent but minimal. I expect this will grow signfiicantly in the near future, and we'll try to figure out a good solution there. As most of you know, we are trying to make this community and ecosystem (Airframes and other communities) become sustainable and keep its relevance and value high. My intentions are to keep costs for the platform low (we are making efforts there), provide value (data access, keep UI interesting and useful, return insights), and stay true to community vibes and interests. We have a lot of updates coming. In testing/staging we have a significant upgrade to the aggregator layer (ingests, processors, supporting microservices) that will improve overall platform performance, stability, and ultimately BETTER and MORE data for you. Thanks for being a part of the journey and your support. It's been a lot of late nights, aggravating moments, and neverending challenges, but as always, the best is coming ...

@joni_vrbt Deal :) airframes.io I will check the other projects now!

Hey founders 👋 Drop your projects here and let everyone check it out. Let’s look at as many products as possible and give other founders feedback. Deal? 🤝

@suni_code airframes.io — democratic access to what aircraft flights and marine vessels are actually up to in the world.

Drop your project 👇🏻 let's drive some traffic!

There is a considerable support for you and Airframes by a lot of well intentioned people. There is u fortunately a band of devious folks that just want to complain or steal or otherwise make life hard for both of us. But we do it for the first group of people and it keeps us moving forward. Thanks for holding strong.

@AirAssets @ArmchairAdml I've never blocked anyone (yet), and I don't intend to paywall the site for lots of reasons. I am just getting better at trying not to take to heart their criticism of something I've sunk a good part of my life into.

Ok, seems a few people are complaining (a few are yelling) at me that some feeds are down. Take a look at the status page. tbg.airframes.io/dashboard/stat… All L-Band feeds are up, the two current C-Band feeds are also up. I will take a look a bit deeper and see, but all my monitoring metrics /graphs are showing all-systems go.

Are you an aeronautical/aerospace organization that wants to support Airframes? Consider sponsoring. Sponsorship allows Airframes to continue to subsidize its existence, continue to focus on innovative and relevant development and growth, and gives your org some exposure while showing the community you've got love for it all. Check it out: app.airframes.io/sponsors Even if you're not an org, just a fan, perhaps you can encourage an org you know to support the effort!

@LexnLin @kevinelliott What @kevinelliott is suggesting is that we could use this for creating a beautiful airport flight board using the data at flightboard.airframes.io or similar :)

@kevinelliott @AirframesIO a redesign?

Charging 199$ for that is hilarious. I mean he also said that he used Claude Code for that. Well, so I built it right away and opensource version for this is here. (agent cooked it in under 20min btw) github.com/Leonxlnx/retro…

@ondacorta @gomezjl @thebaldgeek Let us know how we can help and be more useful.

@gomezjl Me imagino que deben tener una red de radios yo utilizo @AirframesIO y también @thebaldgeek para revisar esos mensajes…

Aeromexico AMX011 reportando problemas con CPDLC en santiago de chile...

Airframes is about much more than just the location of aircraft. It's about all the other data. Come support the effort!