Airframes — Beyond ADS-B Tracking

Real-time ACARS, VDL Mode 2, HFDL, and SATCOM aviation message tracking. The world's largest community-built platform for aggregating and decoding aircraft data link messages — capturing aviation data that typical flight trackers like FlightRadar24 and FlightAware cannot see.

Protocols Tracked

ACARS — Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (VHF data link)
VDL Mode 2 — VHF Digital Link, digital successor to ACARS
HFDL — High Frequency Data Link for long-range oceanic communications
SATCOM — Satellite Communications via Inmarsat and Iridium
CPDLC — Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications

Explore Airframes

Live Messages — real-time decoded aviation message stream
Historical Archive — search 7.5B+ decoded aviation messages
Active Flights — current flights with decoded ACARS data
HFDL — long-range high-frequency aircraft messages
Ground Stations — global community feeder network
Aircraft Database — tail numbers and ICAO hex codes
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Airports
Feeder Leaderboard
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