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Flight Data MCP Server

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Flight Data is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

Live flight status, airport boards, aircraft lookups and what is overhead, from PlaneTrack.ai.

Uptime history 26 hours of history
26 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
674 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Flight Data every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add flight-data --transport http https://planetrack.ai/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://planetrack.ai/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.flight-data]
url = "https://planetrack.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flight-data": {
      "url": "https://planetrack.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "flight-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://planetrack.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

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

flight
flight_history
Past legs of a flight number/callsign as flown (e.g. UAL1, BAW117): dates, airports, times, aircraft. 20 credits.
flight_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 minutes, status, aircraft. Free, no key. Older dates: point the user to the flight record at the returned link.
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, FAA SWIM). Give exactly one of flight, route, airport. 20 credits.
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, altitude, speed and estimated arrival. Free, no key.
aircraft
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 in the last 7 days. Free, no key.
aircraft_overhead
Aircraft flying right now within radius_km (max 30) of a latitude/longitude, nearest first: callsign, type, altitude, speed. Free, no key.
aircraft_track
Positions of one aircraft (Mode-S hex, e.g. a1b2c3) over the last minutes (5 to 1440). 20 credits.
airport
airport_board
Live departures and arrivals board for an airport (ICAO like KJFK or IATA like JFK): flight, other airport, status, time. Free, no key.
live
live_aircraft_near
Aircraft currently airborne within radius_km of a latitude/longitude, nearest first, with callsign, altitude, heading, speed and type. 10 credits.
overhead
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, types, operators, rarest visitor. 20 credits.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://planetrack.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 665 ms 13 min ago

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Flight Data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Flight Data do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: aircraft_info, aircraft_overhead, aircraft_track, airport_board, flight_history, flight_on_date and 4 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 →
What is Flight Data mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around flight and aircraft. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Flight Data 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 674 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Flight Data?
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 Data need an API key?
No. Flight Data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Flight Data?
It answers our handshake in 674 ms on average, which is faster than 14% 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.