Flight Radar MCP Server

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answering

Flight Radar is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 12 tools.

Live flight radar: real-time position of any aircraft transmitting ADS-B right now. Search by regist

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 66 days of history · worst day 89%

66 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

824 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 91

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 22 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

24 Oct a tool changed version

23 Oct a tool changed version8 times that day

22 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

21 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

20 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

11 Oct a tool changed version3 times that day

8 Oct a tool changed version

6 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

3 Oct a tool changed version

1 Oct a tool changed version

and 81 more, back to 22 August 2026

Flight Radar does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add flightradar-mcp --transport http https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.flightradar-mcp]
url = "https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flightradar-mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "flightradar-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

flightradar

flightradar_aircraft

Posição ao vivo de aeronaves específicas, por matrícula (registration), código hex ICAO 24-bit e/ou callsign. Aceita até 50 identificadores numa chamada (misturando os 3 tipos). Retorna por identificador: { found, aircraft: [{ registration, callsign, type, lat, lon, alt_ft, gspeed_kt, vspeed_fpm, track, squawk, on_ground }] }. Aeronave sem resultado esta fora de cobertura ou nao esta transmitindo ADS-B agora (ex.: no chao), isso nao e erro.

flightradar_airport

Informações de aeroportos por código IATA, ICAO, GPS ou local (aceita vários códigos numa chamada). Base offline com ~90 mil aeroportos do mundo todo (incl. heliportos e pistas pequenas). Retorna por código: { found, matched_by, airport: { icao, iata, name, city, region, country, country_name, lat, lon, elevation_ft, tz, type, scheduled_service, wikipedia } }. Combine com flightradar_nearby pra ver o trafego ao redor de um aeroporto.

flightradar_closest

A aeronave mais próxima de um ponto (dentro do raio em milhas náuticas). Retorna { found, aircraft } com distance_nm e bearing_deg. Bom pra responder "que avião é esse passando aqui em cima?".

flightradar_military

Aeronaves militares transmitindo ADS-B agora no mundo. Retorna { total_airborne, aircraft[] } com posição, tipo e callsign de cada uma.

flightradar_nearby

Aeronaves transmitindo ADS-B agora num raio (em milhas náuticas) de um ponto, ordenadas da mais próxima pra mais distante. Retorna { total_in_radius, aircraft: [{ registration, callsign, type, lat, lon, alt_ft, gspeed_kt, track, distance_nm, bearing_deg }] }. Use com flightradar_airport pra converter um aeroporto em lat/lon.

flightradar_type

Aeronaves de um tipo ICAO especifico transmitindo agora no mundo (ex.: PC12 = Pilatus PC-12, E195 = Embraer 195, AS50 = Esquilo). Retorna { total_airborne, aircraft[] } com posição de cada uma. Funciona melhor com tipos menos comuns (até algumas centenas no ar); pra tipos muito comuns (A320, B738, milhares no ar) prefira flightradar_nearby numa região e filtre por type.

authenticate

authenticate

MCP.AI for IDE agents (Cursor, etc.): log in in the browser, copy the access token. Best: add it to this server's config as a header `Authorization: Bearer <token>` for a permanent, non-expiring connection. Or paste it here for a session-only login: call with { token: "<jwt>" } after the user pastes, or with no args to get the link.

connect

connect

Returns connection status and URLs. When all providers are connected, returns authenticated:true and empty pending[]. When credentials are missing, returns connect_url for the toolkit and per-install URLs.

marketplace

marketplace

The official mcp.ai marketplace — the in-platform catalog of every MCP/tool, AND the way to run them. Covers capability requests like "find an MCP that does X", "consulta um CPF", "is there a tool for Y". Core flow: action=search discovers MCPs by intent → describe returns one MCP's full profile (every tool with its id + params, pricing, auth) so you pick the right tool_id → invoke RUNS that tool. KEY: invoke works even when the MCP is NOT installed — it runs the tool pontualmente (one-off), without adding the MCP to the toolkit and without bloating the tool list. If the MCP needs a credential/login, invoke returns a connect link; if it is paid and the wallet is empty, invoke returns a checkout/top-up link (the user opens it, then you retry). Use install only to make an MCP PERMANENT in the active toolkit (its tools then show up natively in future sessions); prefer invoke for a single/occasional use. list_tools lists what is callable right now. subscribe/cancel handle per-MCP billing; report_bug sends feedback; request_mcp asks us to build a NEW MCP when nothing fits. Search/describe flag installed_in_toolkit vs installed_in_workspace. Writes (install/uninstall/subscribe/cancel and the one-off install behind invoke) require workspace owner/admin. It also carries the mcp.ai PROMPT LIBRARY, which is about ready-made prompt TEXT rather than MCPs: search_prompts finds one, get_prompt returns its full text with {{variables}} filled, and publish_prompt saves a prompt and returns a shareable mcp.ai/p/<slug> link that opens without login.

report

report_bug

Report a bug, missing feature, or send feedback. Include the conversation array with recent messages for reproduction.

show

show_version

Show the current MCP platform and adapter versions.

toolkit

toolkit_info

Returns the current toolkit state: installed MCPs, their connection status, the accounts connected to each one, and how many catalog tools each exposes.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.mcp.ai/p_flightradar	streamable-http	answering	243 ms	9 min ago

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Flight Radar — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Flight Radar do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: authenticate, connect, flightradar_aircraft, flightradar_airport, flightradar_closest, flightradar_military and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Flight Radar working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 824 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Flight Radar still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Flight Radar?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Flight Radar need an API key?

No. Flight Radar completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Flight Radar?

It answers our handshake in 824 ms on average, which is faster than 11% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.