ADS-B Exchange

The ADS-B Exchange is the world's largest source of unfiltered flight data. It embraces the enthusiast community and is not focused on profit.

Other services, such as FlightAware and FlightRadar24 are profit-focused corporations who use your data primarily to make millions of dollars per month. We have kept this guide Exchange-agnostic since these companies do maintain an interest from the community, but we highly recommend you contribute first to ADB-S Exchange since it has the community's interests at heart.

Benefits of Feeding

Feeding data to ADS-B Exchange offers some useful benefits:

• Allows enthusiasts to get access to the data in your region

• Access to the API and data for free as long as it is used for non-commercial purposes

• The warm fuzzy feeling that you are helping others

• Knowing your data is put to good use beyond profit, such as by research organizations that are helping to reduce human trafficking and criminal enterprises

Partnerships

• C4ADS - a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues.

• Dictator Alert - a project that tracks the aircrafts of authoritarian regimes all over the world.