About Airline Fleet Intelligence
An open-data reference initiative documenting global airline fleets, airframe movements, and route networks derived from real-world telemetry signals. Published on 2026-09-17 (Thursday, September 17, 2026).
Our Mission
Traditional commercial fleet databases are often gated behind multi-thousand-dollar annual subscriptions or rely on manually edited registries that can lag physical aircraft movements by months.
Airline Fleet Intelligence was built to provide an open, transparent, and reproducible reference standard for aviation enthusiasts, researchers, spotters, and industry analysts. By pairing open ADS-B radio receiver networks with national civil registers, we track commercial aircraft deployments as they physically happen.
Platform Architecture
The platform consists of three integrated layers:
- Data Pipeline: Ingests millions of daily transponder signals, performs coordinate snapping to runway thresholds, and derives state transitions using an optimized Rust telemetry engine.
- Canonical Data Store: A structured MySQL database maintaining verified operator lineages, airframe state histories, and weekly aggregate metrics.
- Static Edge Reference: A fast, lightweight static reference site built with Astro and hosted on Cloudflare Pages, generating build-time inline SVG graphics with zero client-side framework bloat.