ADS-B Exchange Live Positional Data API
Endpoints provide access to airborne or recently landed aircraft, as well as last known positions.Use these endpoints to get information about aircraft, such as location, flight, altitude, speed, and many more.Comprehensive filtering by various parameters is supported - such as ICAO hex code, registration, squawk, etc.See documentation to learn more about available endpoints and their parameters.For more information about properties returned, please navigate to Version 2 API Fields documentation.
ADS-B Exchange Live Positional Data API is one of 5 APIs that ADS-B Exchange publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Live Positional Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 12 operations across 12 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://gateway.adsbexchange.com/api/aircraft/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
ADS-B Exchange Live Positional Data API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as x-api-key (X-Api-Key).
X-Api-Key— Provide your API key via x-api-key header to access the API.
Paths & Operations 12
Across 12 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 8 GET, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints provide access to airborne or recently landed aircraft, as well as last known positions. Use these endpoints to get information about aircraft, such as location, flight,…
Schemas 13
The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AircraftSingleResponse (60 properties), AcasResolutionAdvisoryResponse (11 properties), AircraftCollectionResponse (6 properties), LastPositionDataResponse (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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