ADS-B Feeder Network
Open flight data, powered by the community
AlignedContact aggregates ADS-B telemetry from a network of volunteer-run feeders into a free, public aircraft snapshot - the same live data that powers the camera HUD.
Rebuilt every second · No auth · CC0 public domain
Why share your feed?
Have a spare Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR dongle? You can set up a feeder in minutes and start improving coverage for the entire network.
Quick setup
These steps assume you're running the adsb.im feeder image and can SSH into your Pi as root. No manual file editing required.
1.SSH into your Pi
ssh root@<your-pi-ip>2.Paste the setup block
One paste does it all: it generates a unique station UUID, picks a free local port for MLAT results (starting at 39002), appends the two AlignedContact targets to the end ofFEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG - leaving your existing feeds untouched - and recreates the ultrafeeder container so the new configuration takes effect. The block is idempotent: run it a second time and it will simply do nothing.
CFG=/opt/adsb/config/.env
if grep -q 'feed.alignedcontact.com' "$CFG"; then
echo "AlignedContact is already configured - nothing to do."
else
UUID=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)
PORT=$(for p in $(seq 39002 39099); do
if ! grep -q ",$p," "$CFG" && ! ss -ltn 2>/dev/null | grep -q ":$p "; then
echo "$p"; break
fi
done)
if [ -z "$PORT" ]; then
echo "No free port found in 39002-39099 - please contact us."
else
CUR=$(grep '^FEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=' "$CFG" | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2- | sed 's/;*$//')
ENTRY="adsb,feed.alignedcontact.com,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out,uuid=$UUID;mlat,feed.alignedcontact.com,40147,$PORT,uuid=$UUID,--privacy"
if [ -n "$CUR" ]; then NEW="$CUR;$ENTRY"; else NEW="$ENTRY"; fi
if grep -q '^FEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=' "$CFG"; then
sed -i "s|^FEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=.*|FEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=$NEW|" "$CFG"
else
echo "FEEDER_ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=$NEW" >> "$CFG"
fi
echo "Added AlignedContact (Beast on 30004, MLAT results on local port $PORT). Recreating ultrafeeder..."
/opt/adsb/docker-compose-start
fi
fiOpen Data API
We provide a live aircraft snapshot in the standardreadsb/tar1090 aircraft.jsonschema, rebuilt every second from our combined feeder network.
curl https://adsb.alignedcontact.com/data/aircraft.jsonNo auth, no cookies, refreshed once every second, brotli-compressed when your client asks for it. Each aircraft entry carries only the fields it has actually reported - anything missing is omitted rather than sent as null.
ICAO 24-bit transponder address (lowercase)
Callsign
Position
Barometric altitude in feet, or the string "ground" for surface traffic
Ground speed in knots
Heading in degrees
Vertical rate in feet per minute
4-digit transponder code
Seconds since the aircraft was last heard
Seconds since its last position (aircraft with position only)
Attribution & data sources
Aggregated from the AlignedContact community feeder network and ADSBHub. Please credit these sources if you build public apps on top of this feed.
License / terms
This live telemetry stream is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal waiver. You are completely free to copy, modify, distribute, and use the data for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without asking permission.
Feeder locations and identifying metadata are strictly protected and never published. See the privacy policy for details.

