AeroGaze is a free, web-based aircraft identifier that shows which plane is flying overhead in real time using live ADS-B transponder data. No account required.
Use AeroGaze to find out which plane is flying overhead in three steps.
Open the AeroGaze tracker and grant your browser location permission when prompted. Your coordinates are used only to determine which patch of sky to search and are never stored.
AeroGaze queries a live global ADS-B network for every aircraft currently broadcasting a transponder signal near your position and selects the closest one.
The nearest aircraft's raw transponder data is enriched with route, airline, and aircraft-type details, giving you a full flight card with live telemetry.
Open the tracker and allow location access. AeroGaze finds the nearest aircraft currently transmitting an ADS-B signal and shows its flight number, airline, route, aircraft type, altitude, speed and heading in real time.
Positions come straight from aircraft transponders and are typically only a few seconds old. Coverage depends on nearby ground receivers, so remote areas and very low-altitude aircraft may occasionally be missed.
Only aircraft that broadcast a public ADS-B signal appear. Many military and sensitive flights either don't transmit or are filtered from public feeds, so they generally won't show up.
Open the AeroGaze tracker and grant location access. The app uses your device's GPS to find your coordinates and instantly shows the nearest aircraft transmitting an ADS-B signal above you — including its flight number, airline, route, altitude and speed.
For each aircraft overhead, AeroGaze shows the flight number, airline name and logo, origin and destination airports, aircraft type (e.g. Boeing 737-800), current altitude, ground speed, and heading. All data updates every 30 seconds from live ADS-B feeds.
Yes — AeroGaze is a web app that works in any modern mobile browser, no download required. Just open aerogaze.com, tap the tracker, and allow location access.
AeroGaze shows the nearest aircraft to your location rather than letting you search by flight number. If the flight you're curious about is overhead, it will appear automatically. For tracking a specific flight across its full route, a dedicated flight-tracking service is a better fit.
No. AeroGaze is completely free and requires no sign-up, login or subscription. Just open the tracker and go.
Live positions come from the airplanes.live ADS-B network, and route and airline details are enriched from open aviation databases. No proprietary or paid feed is required.
No. Your coordinates are used momentarily to find the nearest aircraft and are never saved to our servers or shared. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Yes. Tap the screen icon in the tracker's header to turn on Keep Screen Awake, which uses your device's Wake Lock feature to stop the display from sleeping. Mount an old tablet or phone on a wall or shelf, open aerogaze.com/tracker, enable Keep Screen Awake, and you have a free, always-on live flight display — no dedicated hardware required.
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Wall Display mode is an optimized landscape layout designed for wall-mounted tablets and TVs. Tap the TV icon in the tracker header to activate it — the display automatically enters fullscreen, keeps the screen on, and shows a large, distance-optimized view with the map, flight information, and key telemetry all at a glance. Perfect for a permanent flight display in your home or office.
Yes — the Airport Status page shows live FAA National Airspace System (NAS) data, including active ground stops, ground delay programs, and airport closures across the US, updated in real time. No account needed.
Yes — the Airport Status page shows the latest METAR observation (temperature, wind, visibility) for each delayed airport, sourced from NOAA, so you can see the conditions driving the delay at a glance.
Use the Registry Lookup tool and enter the aircraft's tail number. For a US aircraft (N-number) it pulls the FAA Civil Aircraft Registry record, including owner type, manufacturer, model, and registration status. Dutch aircraft (PH-) can be looked up too, but the Dutch register publishes aircraft details only, with no owner information.
The flight time calculator gives the distance and a typical flight time each way between major cities, plus the time difference and which aircraft can fly the route.