PlanePatrol© is a lightweight aircraft tracking engine built for plane spotters, aviation nerds, and hobby coders. It runs in your browser, pulls live aircraft data, and gives you cockpit mode, weather radar, and hotspot jumps. Clone it, extend it, or turn it into your own plane spotting app.
Live aircraft positions updated every 3 seconds via community ADS-B network
Immersive view with heading indicator, altitude, speed, and synthetic engine audio
NEXRAD overlay showing precipitation intensity with adjustable opacity
Historical path visualization with fade effect and predictive trajectory lines
Jump to any airport or callsign worldwide with geocoding and auto-complete
Toggle between dark mode, satellite, and terrain views
This app uses free community APIs (airplanes.live, Iowa State weather radar) that aren't licensed for commercial use. It's meant for personal learning, tinkering, and plane spotting—not as a product or service. Please respect the data providers who make this possible.
Try the demo instantly, or grab the code and make it your own.
Click "Try Live Demo" to run it instantly in your browser. Allow location access to see aircraft near you.
Clone or download from GitHub. It's a single HTML file—open it locally or host it anywhere.
Swap out colors, add features, connect different APIs. The code is clean and well-commented.
Data providers who make this possible.
Run the demo in your browser or grab the source and start hacking.