This is really cool! It'd be nice to be able to maintain a logbook of the different aircraft I've flown on, maybe grabbing the tail numbers of the planes as well if possible?
On top of that, some airlines like Qantas name their planes (e.g. you'll have an A330 named Cradle Mountain). I'm not sure that the mappings are publicly available but maybe it can be crowdsourced.
That's funny, i thought about making just that, but there area already a bunch of sites ( planeapotters, flightradar, etc.) which contain the data, so a dedicated website would add little value. I might still make it, especially if more airlines decide to "rename" it ( e.g. Ryanair with their 737-9200).
That'd be awesome. BTW, some flight tracking services do show detailed information about the airplane, like service time (age), etc... I might give it a try
FWIW A site that listed exactly which Airlines Owned which airplanes and the model and tail number of the airplane would be super useful to me personally
I found a very similar tool, but with advanced functionality. You may see baggage allowance, aircraft model with the tail number on the route and flight schedule https://flightsmap.org
Hmm that could be a cool feature for Flighty. You just need to build a database of tail numbers and news events, which is much harder than “just”. I pay attention to tail numbers to see if I’m getting on the same plane again.
I have been working on something really similar. I built a flight tracker that covers private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and the Russell 3000.
My tracker also includes planes that are registered to Wells Fargo Trustee Services etc.
I was actually about to publish it.
Email me if you want to discuss this more. We could probably work together on this.
It'd be interested to make a little HTML page that can query the api for each airline that exposes something like this and give you an in-flight display on your laptop.
This seems pretty useful for me. Out of habit, I have always checked whether I am flying an A320 or a 737 MAX when purchasing plane tickets. The information is usually buried in details, in small text.
Interesting! In addition to the links already shared, I use OpenTravelData, available at https://github.com/opentraveldata/opentraveldata, which consolidates airport information from different sources, but also data on aircrafts, airlines, etc.
If you visit an airline on WikiData, they have the FAA, IATA, and ICAO codes pretty well mapped out, but I hadn't ever come across an ACARS entry before. Might be worth mapping out. Example:
On top of that, some airlines like Qantas name their planes (e.g. you'll have an A330 named Cradle Mountain). I'm not sure that the mappings are publicly available but maybe it can be crowdsourced.
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