We’re not even halfway through 2025, and here’s what things look like at @AirframesIO so far. AVIATION ✈️ Over 1 billion messages tracked (excluding non-ACARS) ✈️ Over 290 million flight positions logged ✈️ Over 9 million flights tracked Compared to all of 2024, that’s: 🔼 20% more flights 🔼 289% more flight positions (thanks to improved decoder algorithms) 🔼 18% more messages MARINE 🚢 Over 1 billion messages tracked 🚢 Over 1.1 million voyages recorded 🚢 Over 837 million voyage positions collected That’s: 🔼 999% more messages than in all of 2024 🔼 1% more voyages ❓ 837 million positions—still checking how that compares to 2024 We’re basically eating all we can, and we’ll keep going. Work is underway to better store historical data and open it up for search and exploration. Assuming continued support, more formats are coming soon—and more types of data in aviation, marine, and beyond. Huge thanks to everyone contributing data and financial support. You're the reason this exists. Expect some interesting news in the next update.

This is a really really big deal for both #avgeeks and #osint Years in the making, I can't wait to jump in and start testing.

This will literally change the ADS-B/ACARS/VDL/HFDL/SATCOM/AIS/etc feeder game. One binary, one client, one feeder. We're going to make it easy.

I’ve def been shadow banned on X. I talked some crap about Ewan Mursks a long while back and I run @AirframesIO which helps some people track his flights and that is probably why

Pre-Alpha Release: xng 0.10.1 Announcing the first pre-alpha release for the public to learn, experiment and use xng, a next-generation multi-mode decoder client. We've been working on a single binary, multi-decoder client for a long time. We tossed most away, and then got sidetracked with other things, only to come back again and again. We think we have it this time: - Rust language & features - core-based approach to decoding - legacy support wrappers - Airframes as 1st Class, full support for anyone else - flexible licensing (MIT & APACHE) There is so much to say about this pre-release. But I'm going to save it for the die hards to inspect more closely. We'll elaborate in more detail to the rest of the community as a 1.0.0 becomes closer. Please give us feedback directly via DM, or on the repo via Issues. github.com/airframesio/xng github.com/airframesio/xng/r… @alerts @updates @airframes-contrib @airframes-contrib @airframes-dev @airframes-mod

A call to air geeks, we need more coverage north and south of Miami, FL!

Lots of users using the Airframes API to augment their #OSINT research. We've got an MCP server coming soon that will use your API key.

Take 1min 45 sec out of your day and check out this video!! Super proud Dad moment. The KRIV Iridium is hosted by my son, and the HC610 has been sitting on the bottom rail since he moved in. With @ElbaSatGuy and @cemaxecuter big jump in position decoding, I asked him to mount it on the top rail. This is the process he took for #avgeek and #osint Totally knocked it out of the park! Huge jump in range.

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10 million requests on the unpublished API in the last month. Yes, it exists. The API isn't technically released/documented, but we have it. Full documentation is coming right after we golden seal the current API version. And after that, the selective SSE/WS for Pro/Feeder and above tiers are coming for more realtime data. The growth is due to a few reasons: * A suspicious IP in China (unclear purpose) uses 4x the next highest (which is Google) crawling every possible endpoint for all data. It was blocked tonight. We will start aggressively banning abusers like this in the future. * Amazing feeders and new Pro subscribers, hobbyists, and experimenters using the free and non-free tiers. The true purpose and meaning for Airframes to exist is to have a place where we can collate and exchange the data amongst each other. The free feeder tier will soon be growing to the business level (due to improvements in performance, and over time as scale can afford it). -- There are still some issues around API key provisioning reported (but in the interim, Pro users can use the API Key button in the Dashboard) * Community partners we've extended access to (including firehose which is not counted for here). These are always great reasons to share! * Commercial licensees. A couple of new commercial licenses have been agreed on and licensed access. We'll expand on these more in the future, but for now I can say that FlightDeck on the Apple App Store is one of them. * Search engines and AI model building are likely candidates, but evidence so far is existent but minimal. I expect this will grow signfiicantly in the near future, and we'll try to figure out a good solution there. As most of you know, we are trying to make this community and ecosystem (Airframes and other communities) become sustainable and keep its relevance and value high. My intentions are to keep costs for the platform low (we are making efforts there), provide value (data access, keep UI interesting and useful, return insights), and stay true to community vibes and interests. We have a lot of updates coming. In testing/staging we have a significant upgrade to the aggregator layer (ingests, processors, supporting microservices) that will improve overall platform performance, stability, and ultimately BETTER and MORE data for you. Thanks for being a part of the journey and your support. It's been a lot of late nights, aggravating moments, and neverending challenges, but as always, the best is coming ...

Ok, seems a few people are complaining (a few are yelling) at me that some feeds are down. Take a look at the status page. tbg.airframes.io/dashboard/s… All L-Band feeds are up, the two current C-Band feeds are also up. I will take a look a bit deeper and see, but all my monitoring metrics /graphs are showing all-systems go.

Are you an aeronautical/aerospace organization that wants to support Airframes? Consider sponsoring. Sponsorship allows Airframes to continue to subsidize its existence, continue to focus on innovative and relevant development and growth, and gives your org some exposure while showing the community you've got love for it all. Check it out: app.airframes.io/sponsors Even if you're not an org, just a fan, perhaps you can encourage an org you know to support the effort!

Airframes is about much more than just the location of aircraft. It's about all the other data. Come support the effort!

Here is the yearly reminder of this great bit of advice, as true today as it was 2 years ago. Everyone needs encouragement - it's easy to tear down, but helping and building is what takes the real effort. A simple 'thank you' can build more than you imagine.

Dev makrsmark just added newer inline decoding to the Airframes web app. example: app.airframes.io/messages/62…