You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data. A few such services:
There's also https://www.adsbexchange.com/ which doesn't filter their data (probably much to the chagrin of various businesses and governments). If you see/hear a weird plane above and you can't find it on the commercial services above, check ADSB Exchange.
You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data.
"top tier" may be overstating it but setting up a RPi and $20 USB ASDB receiver will get you the $90/month Enterprise feed [1]. Still a great deal if this is a topic that interests you.
They do give historic data, but yeah I don't know offhand which ones give comprehensive direct API access just by feeding ADS-B data. RadarBox seems to. FR24 and FA require you to contact them -- I've never done this so I don't know how much friction the process entails, or what kind of API limits you may be subject to. Probably depends on your intended application.
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You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data. A few such services:
https://www.flightradar24.com
https://flightaware.com/
https://www.radarbox.com/
https://skyscanworld.com/
There's also https://www.adsbexchange.com/ which doesn't filter their data (probably much to the chagrin of various businesses and governments). If you see/hear a weird plane above and you can't find it on the commercial services above, check ADSB Exchange.
"top tier" may be overstating it but setting up a RPi and $20 USB ASDB receiver will get you the $90/month Enterprise feed [1]. Still a great deal if this is a topic that interests you.
[1] https://flightaware.com/adsb/
Not the same thing. Scheduled future/historic flight data vs observed realtime/historic flight data.
They do give historic data, but yeah I don't know offhand which ones give comprehensive direct API access just by feeding ADS-B data. RadarBox seems to. FR24 and FA require you to contact them -- I've never done this so I don't know how much friction the process entails, or what kind of API limits you may be subject to. Probably depends on your intended application.