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The FlightPortrait Network is an open source alternative to FlightRadar24: a live flight tracker built on community receivers and openly licensed data. Everything is in one repository, from the antenna’s Beast port to the map in your browser. Our instance runs at flightportrait.com/network. It is the biggest instance, not the only possible one.

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What it does

  • A live map: aircraft as top-down silhouettes, sized by type, with trails, search, and callsign labels.
  • A detail card per flight: photo, type spelled out, route with cities, altitude, speed, heading.
  • A page per airframe: its observed flight log going back a year, rotations, quiet periods stated as quiet periods.
  • Airline pages: fleets, destinations, route frequencies, derived departure boards.
  • An open API serving all of it. Rate-limited, no key, no account.

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Observation, not inference

Everything shown is observation. Positions come from receivers, routes and schedules are derived from what aircraft actually flew, and a gap means the network did not hear it. There is no commercial schedule feed and no inference dressed up as fact.

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The licenses

Apache-2.0 for the code, ODbL for the data, both irrevocable. If we ever stop, your instance keeps working.