FlightAware Adds Historical Flight Data

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 08:15 PM ET

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This flowchart from the FlightAware presentation at NBAA-BACE illustrates how the company collects, interprets, enriches and delivers "big data" to its customers.

Key Takeaways:

FlightAware's AeroAPI now offers customers access to historical flight data dating back to January 1, 2011, expanding on its existing real-time and future flight tracking capabilities.
The historical data includes flight status, times, and tracks, accessible by flight identifier, registration, or codeshare numbers.
FlightAware fuses data from thousands of sources using proprietary algorithms to provide a reliable single source of flight information for operational decision-making and predictive analysis, having collected data on over 700 million flights.

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Through its AeroAPI utility, FlightAware expanded the functionality of the query-based flight tracking to offer customers access to historical flight data dating back to Jan. 1, 2011. FlightAware users can already retrieve on-demand real-time flight status updates, flight tracks, future flight schedules and other flight data specific to any airport, airline fleet, flight or tail number. The new program update allows them to access historical data to include flight status and times, flight tracks and static track images for any flight or tail number.

The historical data can be accessed by the flight identifier (including IATA/ICAO identifier), registration number or codeshare identifiers. At NBAA-BACE 2022 in Orlando, FlightAware explained that using proprietary algorithms based on years of experience, it fuses data from thousands of sources to provide a single source of “truth” that might be useful for operational decision-making and/or software developers exploring predictive flight patterns, for example. Over the years, FlightAware has collected data on more than 700 million flights.