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.

@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!

Here is the yearly reminder of this great bit of advice, as true today as it was 2 years ago. Everyone needs encouragement - it's easy to tear down, but helping and building is what takes the real effort. A simple 'thank you' can build more than you imagine.

Dev makrsmark just added newer inline decoding to the Airframes web app. example: app.airframes.io/messages/62307…

@thenewarea51 @cemaxecuter Which more competent ACARS sites are emerging? I've yet to see another that sticks around for the long haul other than ours and TBG's.

@AirframesIO @cemaxecuter Your website is still a complete mess after all these years. I stopped feed to you because my data just get’s gobbled up into oblivion. Thankfully more competent ACARS sites are emerging.

As you've probably already heard, @cemaxecuter built an Iridium ACARS decoder client in C that still maintains compatibility w/ iridium-toolkit and Airframes ingest.

@thenewarea51 @cemaxecuter That said, I've seen YOUR website :)

@thenewarea51 @cemaxecuter That's a shame. Bummer that you feel that way because it's a community effort and we've dumped a ton of personal cash and effort into it. Maybe revisit?

@heyblake airframes.io

Drop your project URL Let’s drive some traffic

@suni_code airframes.io

Drop your portfolio URL Let’s drive some traffic

Authentication Now you can authenticate several ways: * Google * Discord * GitHub * Username/Password always You can also go to your Settings and link these accounts to your existing. The intention is that you can login with trusted sites now.

Support the platform that decodes millions of ACARS, VDL, HFDL & SATCOM msgs daily - get your brand in front. Tiers named after aviation codes: ✦ Squawk 7700 - $1,000/mo (emerg = top priority) ✦ Squawk 1200 - $100/mo ✦ Squawk 2000 - $25/mo app.airframes.io/sponsors

We have updated the docs @ docs.airframes.io -- with obvious mention for @thebaldgeek but also a lot of other things.

@tom_doerr If you are interested in integrating w/ Airframes, we'd love to make an ingest for this. I think there could be output from this that would be useful for everyone!

Tracks satellites and decodes radio signals github.com/sgoudelis/grou…

Soon we'll be launching a Pro tier subscription for users that want enhanced access to the API & extra features. The Pro tier subscription will help us continue to afford the server infrastructure, dev time, & historical data. Feeders will always get the Pro tier for free.

Announced on the Discord - but I recognize that we need to post here for the folks that don't do the Discord thing: We are starting to roll out all kinds of upgrades! 1. data layer 2. monitoring 3. web app UI (fixes and subtle UI impr until the replacement UI is ready)

@thebaldgeek @cemaxecuter I'd expect gRPC to be something done later when additional optimization/compression is ready to be added once the general object structure is totally stabilized.

I've never heard of gPRC, sounds like a programmer / AI protocol. Let's be careful that we don't end up shooting for perfection and never get anything done/released. I plan to dig into the current release tomorrow, and hopefully, if it goes well, I can update my GitHub page.

Entire Iridium ACARS pipeline now runs in a single binary, including optional advanced libacars decoding and JSON output. What’s the preferred (optional) path for feeding dashboards? Direct JSON stream, MQTT, or something else?
@AirframesIO @thebaldgeek github.com/alphafox02/iri…

@pontusab What app is that that you are using for the notes there? And which tree all did you use to make the path output?

you will regret not using a monorepo.