Live positions, flights, routes, each aircraft's history and the emergency codes it squawked.
Data © FlightPortrait network feeders, ODbL 1.0
Registrations, aircraft types, owners and build years.
Mictronics aircraft database, ODC-By 1.0
For US aircraft: serial numbers, build years, registration and airworthiness dates, models and engines.
US Federal Aviation Administration, public domain
Occurrence reports for aircraft in Canadian airspace or at Canadian aerodromes.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
The country of registration, read from the block each aircraft address belongs to.
International Civil Aviation Organization address allocation
Each airport's time zone, found from its position.
Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0
Alliance membership, from each alliance's published member list.
The day's tracks across the North Atlantic, as published by Shanwick and Gander.
US Federal Aviation Administration, public domain
Where the Atlantic tracks begin and end, and the fixed routes across the Pacific.
US Federal Aviation Administration (public domain), NATS and AirNav Ireland
City lights on the map where it is night, from the 2016 VIIRS composite served by NASA GIBS.
NASA Earth Observatory, public domain
Aircraft photos, each credited to its photographer and linked where it appears.
FlightPortrait