/flightaware/flights/track

POST /api/flightaware/flights/track

Price: 10 credits

Get the flown track (ordered position reports) for the current or most recent leg of a flight

How to use it

Get the flown track of a flight as an ordered list of position reports. Accepts an airline flight number in ICAO form ('UAL1'), a tail number ('N815UA'), or a specific FlightAware flight id. Each point has a Unix timestamp (seconds), latitude, longitude, altitude in hundreds of feet (flight level) and groundspeed in knots. Returns an empty list when the flight has not yet reported any positions (e.g. before departure).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• ident string required — Flight identifier: airline flight number in ICAO form (UAL1), tail number (N815UA), or a specific FlightAware flight id (examples: "UAL1", "N815UA"; minLength: 2)

Response

• @type string (default: "FlightawareTrackPoint")
• timestamp integer nullable
• latitude number nullable
• longitude number nullable
• altitude integer nullable
• groundspeed integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No flight found for the given identifier Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.