AviationService

TrackAircraft

Track an aircraft by ICAO24 hex or callsign within map bounds, returning position observations, altitude, speed, source and update time for flight monitoring.

get/api/aviation/v1/track-aircraft

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.worldmonitor.app
  • URL: https://api.worldmonitor.app/api/aviation/v1/track-aircraft
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header X-WorldMonitor-Key
    • API key in header X-Api-Key

Query parameters

icao24string

ICAO 24-bit transponder address (hex, e.g., "4b1805").

callsignstring

ATC callsign (e.g., "THY7CX").

sw_latnumber double

Optional bounding box south-west latitude.

sw_lonnumber double

Optional bounding box south-west longitude.

ne_latnumber double

Optional bounding box north-east latitude.

ne_lonnumber double

Optional bounding box north-east longitude.

jmespathstring

Optional JMESPath expression applied server-side to project or reduce the JSON response before it is returned (mirrors the MCP jmespath argument). Invalid expressions, expressions larger than 1024 UTF-8 bytes, or projections that exceed the 256 KB output cap return HTTP 400 with a {_jmespath_error, original_keys} envelope. Grammar and worked examples: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/mcp-jmespath.

Response

OK

sourcestring

Data source identifier.

updatedAtinteger

Warning: Values > 2^53 may lose precision in JavaScript

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.