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Live flight status, airport boards, aircraft lookups and what is overhead, from PlaneTrack.ai.
Remote server: your requests and data go to planetrack.ai. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http flight-data https://planetrack.ai/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
flight_status — Live status of a flight that is in the air now, by callsign or flight number as broadcast (e.g. UAL1, BAW117, DAL2540): route, progress, altflight_on_date — What happened to a flight on a given day within the last 7 days: departure and arrival airports, scheduled and actual take-off, delay in minairport_board — Live departures and arrivals board for an airport (ICAO like KJFK or IATA like JFK): flight, other airport, status, time. Free, no key.aircraft_info — An aircraft by registration (e.g. N12345, G-EUPT) or Mode-S hex (e.g. a1b2c3): type, operator, where it is now if flying, and its flights inaircraft_overhead — Aircraft flying right now within radius_km (max 30) of a latitude/longitude, nearest first: callsign, type, altitude, speed. Free, no key.live_aircraft_near — Aircraft currently airborne within radius_km of a latitude/longitude, nearest first, with callsign, altitude, heading, speed and type. 10 craircraft_track — Positions of one aircraft (Mode-S hex, e.g. a1b2c3) over the last minutes (5 to 1440). 20 credits.flight_history — Past legs of a flight number/callsign as flown (e.g. UAL1, BAW117): dates, airports, times, aircraft. 20 credits.flight_reliability — On-time performance for a flight number, a route (e.g. KJFK-KLAX or JFK-LAX) or a departure airport over the last 7 to 90 days (US airspace,overhead_summary — How many aircraft passed within km of a point over the last 1 to 3 days: passes per day, lowest pass, busiest hour (UTC), night passes, typeNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.