Historical Flight Radar and Flight Tracker API
Get historical latitude, longitude, speed data and more for past flights with our REST API
Aviation Edge Historical Flight Tracker API provides detailed position data throughout the journeys of past flights. Get flight latitude, longitude, altitude, speed data with timestamps with flight and aircraft details.
- Latitude/longitude
- Altitude
- Horizontal and ground speed
- Timestamps to specify the recorded times
- Aircraft details (ICAO designators, registration number)
- Flight details (airport, flight number, airline)
- Final flight status
- Squawk information
Data in the Historical Flight Status API
- Historical geography: Current position with latitude and longitude and direction to show flights on a map.
- Historical speed: The current vertical and horizontal speed of aircraft.
- Origin and destination airports: IATA codes and ICAO codes of the departure and arrival airports.
- Aircraft: IATA and ICAO codes of the aircraft model and registration number.
- Airline: Airline IATA code and ICAO codes.
- System information: Squawk, current flight status and last updated timestamp.
✈️ Get step-by-step movements and position of past flights. Get all positions throughout the journey in a single API call.
🎯 Filter by flight number, departure or arrival airport and departure date.
Historical Flight Tracker API Input & Output
Movements of a past flight based on different designators (flight IATA number, aircraft ICAO code or aircraft registraion number can be used):
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&flightIata=BA203&depDate=2025-10-21
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&aircraftIcao24=AC82EC&depDate=2025-10-21
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&RegNum=N923SW&depDate=2025-10-21
You can request flights by the departure or arrival date, or detailed by date+time:
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=3[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&flightIata=DL33&depDate=2025-10-21
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&flightIata=DL33&arrDate=2025-10-21
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&flightIata=DL33&dep_schTime=2025-10-21T13:40:00
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flight_track_history?key=[API_KEY]&depIata=LHR&flightIata=DL33&arr_schTime=2025-10-21T20:10:00
You can also request a specific movement array.
More filters available!
Response Example
Individual Flight
Airline fleet
Airport departures
Airport arrivals
[
{
“aircraft”: {
“icao24”: “406A9C”,
“icaoCode”: “B788”,
“regNumber”: “G-ZBJE”
},
“airline”: {
“iataCode”: “BA”,
“icaoCode”: “BAW”
},
“arrival”: {
“iataNumber”: “BOS”,
“icaoNumber”: “KBOS”,
“scheduledTime”: “2025-10-21T20:10:00.000”
},
“departure”: {
“iataNumber”: “LHR”,
“icaoNumber”: “EGLL”,
“scheduledTime”: “2025-10-21T17:35:00.000”
},
“flight”: {
“iataNumber”: “BA203”,
“icaoNumber”: “BAW50G”
},
“flightPositions”: [
{
“altitude”: “0.00”,
“direction”: “90.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “1.85”,
“isGround”: 1,
“latitude”: “51.468500”,
“longitude”: “-0.482000”,
“updated”: 1761064591,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
},
…
…
{
“altitude”: “0.00”,
“direction”: “50.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “14.82”,
“isGround”: 1,
“latitude”: “51.474900”,
“longitude”: “-0.483200”,
“updated”: 1761065448,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
},
…
…
{
“altitude”: “12192.00”,
“direction”: “268.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “831.55”,
“isGround”: 0,
“latitude”: “53.010000”,
“longitude”: “-20.314800”,
“updated”: 1761072756,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
},
{
“altitude”: “12192.00”,
“direction”: “264.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “831.55”,
“isGround”: 0,
“latitude”: “52.977200”,
“longitude”: “-20.881200”,
“updated”: 1761072922,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
},
…
…
{
“altitude”: “0.00”,
“direction”: “33.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “25.93”,
“isGround”: 1,
“latitude”: “42.361200”,
“longitude”: “-71.014400”,
“updated”: 1761090062,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
},
{
“altitude”: “0.00”,
“direction”: “329.00”,
“horizontal_speed”: “18.52”,
“isGround”: 1,
“latitude”: “42.368400”,
“longitude”: “-71.012100”,
“updated”: 1761090198,
“vspeed”: “0.00”
}
],
“status”: “landed”,
“system”: {
“squawk”: null,
“updated”: 1761090198
}
}
]
The Historical Flight Tracker API – Your Gateway to Past Flight Movement Data
Analyze flight performance by tracking each flight’s actual moves throughout its route. Use the Historical Flight Radar and Tracker API to retrieve detailed positional data—altitude, speed, direction at a certain point during the flight with timestamps. Plot these points on a virtual map to visualize the aircraft’s full path from gate to gate. Calculate the actual distance taken by implementing the past flight tracking database.
Interested in real-time flight tracking data as well? Your API key for the past aircraft tracking data also gives you access to real-time aircraft movement data when the flight is live. Stay in sync with every stage of a flight throughout its course with status data as “started”, “en-route”, “landed”. The API delivers live status info with last update timestamps, so you can trigger alerts, update timelines, or build delay-tracking features.
Go beyond flight tracking by combining the Historical Flight Tracker API with historical flight schedules and static datasets such as aircraft information, airline details, and airport metadata. Create a unified platform that displays each flight’s past movements alongside its scheduled data. Identify recurring delays and cancellations, visualize aircraft types, or highlight origin and destination cities in a fuller and more interactive environment.
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