FlightAware Adds Historical Flight Data - AVweb

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.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/nbaa/flightaware-adds-historical-flight-data

Between Flight Aware and VasAviation, folks can get real time data after a mishap, with some amazing features that aid studying crashes with A/G, G/A and even CTAF transmissions, along with flight profile plan view traces and airspeed/altitude data. I’ll wager the NTSB investigations, when they publish the fact that they didn’t travel to the crash site, are performed with this data. Some of the video images from airport surveillance cameras will help immensely.