General Aviation

Did you know that you can track just about any flight online from your computer? Live? Whether it is a commercial airline flight, or a private training flight, or a buddy flying a flight school or a flying club rental aircraft? And it is FREE!

FlightAware

Did you know that you could track live just about any flight, private or commercial, from your own home computer? Well, FlightAware lets you do just that. And that too for free. You can now use FlightAware to quickly and easily plan & file IFR flight for turbine and piston aircraft.

You do not need to know about probable DPs, STARs, transitions, available routings, or winds aloft. Simply type in the basics of your trip (ident / origin / destination / departure time / number on board) and FlightAware.com will present a list of optimized routings, altitudes, predicted fuel burns, and operational options. Select what suits your mission and click to file.

Background

Founded in March of 2005, FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware launched public operations in late 2005 and quickly became the most popular flight tracking service in the world. FlightAware’s proprietary flight arrival time algorithms combined with FlightAware’s powerful, intuitive, responsive, and reliable web-based interface yield the most capable and useful flight tracking application and service. FlightAware has offices in Houston and New York.

Always Aware

FlightAware offers live flight data, airport information, weather maps and charts, as well as aviation news to nearly two million users a month. FlightAware also powers operational management and dispatch software, airport FIDS (flight information displays), and provides reporting data to aircraft and airport operators.

Enterprise Commercial Services

Aviation businesses (aircraft and engine manufacturers, charters operators, airlines, airport operators, government) rely on FlightAware’s commercial services division for data analysis, trending, outsourcing of data processing, and finding the answer to tomorrow’s aviation optimization and reliability problems.

FlightAware joins Twitter and Facebook. Also, they have one of the best collection of aircraft photos . I always knew about the Live Flight Tracking service, but just came across this photo collection today. It is totally worth going and checking the album out as well.

FlightAware Squawk

is for sharing aviation news, stories, pictures, and videos. FlightAware members submit the links and then vote to decide which stories are important, interesting, or amusing. The list of popular squawks changes constantly. You can also include a squawk box on your blog or any web page.

Merchandise

FlightAware merchandise is a cool accessory for any FlightAware enthusiast, so feel free buy something if you’re interested although FlightAware isn’t profiting off any of these products, so please do not feel obligated to buy anything simply to support the most popular flight tracking service on the internet.

All merchandise and sales are handled by Spreadshirt, an independent merchant.

Discussion Forum

FlightAware discussion forum is available as well. Lots of good to know information and learn new things.