A list of open-source aviation projects and data.
Note
Still work-in-progress, feel free to fork and contribute!
- ADS-B Exchange - Community-driven ADS-B network, offers free sample data and freemium Rest APIs
- ourairports.com - Community-driven airport database which includes geo coordinates, airport names and more.
- airports.csv - Raw CSV file of OurAirports.com, 78K+ airports
- runways.csv - Runways information. Including length, width, altitude and more.
- airport-frequencies.csv - MHZ Airport Frequencies.
- countries.csv - Additional Country data
- regions.csv - Additional Region Data
- navaids.csv
- airport-comments.csv - Community comments
- airports.dat - Airport data, might be outdated
- airports-extended.dat - Airports, train stations and ferry terminals, including user contributions
- airlines.dat
- routes.dat
- free_airports.json.zip - 32K structured airport data
- NOAA's METAR - Up-to-date METARs, for a specific station you can add the {ICAO}.TXT at the end of the url (e.g. EGLL)
- AVWX-Engine - Aviation Weather parsing engine. METAR & TAF
- skytrack - A planespotting and aircraft OSINT tool made using Python
- traffic-viz - A toolbox for processing and analysing air traffic data
- pitot - A toolbox for aeronautic calculations
- openap-top - Open flight trajectory optimizer built with non-linear optimal control method
- AirTrafficSim - Web-based air traffic simulation and visualization platform for ATM research.
- awesome-flying - A curated list of flying/aviation tools
| name | last_modified | row_count |
|---|---|---|
| airports.csv | 2025-01-16 08:53:33 | 81,928 |
| runways.csv | 2025-01-16 08:53:33 | 46,540 |
| airport-frequencies.csv | 2025-01-16 08:53:33 | 29,857 |
| airport-comments.csv | 2025-01-16 08:53:33 | 15,542 |
| regions.csv | 2025-01-04 08:53:31 | 3,950 |
| navaids.csv | 2024-08-23 07:53:30 | 11,020 |
| countries.csv | 2022-11-03 07:53:39 | 248 |
| airports.dat | 2019-05-13 11:54:02 | 7,697 |
| airports-extended.dat | 2019-05-13 11:54:02 | 12,667 |
| airlines.dat | 2017-02-02 11:32:12 | 6,161 |
| routes.dat | 2017-02-02 11:32:12 | 67,662 |