Feature
Find any flight in plain English
Search millions of flights across the archive by describing them the way you'd say them out loud. No tail numbers, no filter syntax.
Most flight tools make you know exactly what you're looking for before you can look. SkyMeter doesn't. Type what you remember, like "go-arounds at JFK last week", "small planes below 8,000 ft near Kennewick", or "A350s that diverted", and our natural-language engine turns it into a precise query across the entire archive.
Behind the search box is a continuously growing record of global flight activity: millions of flights, every day, from a worldwide ADS-B and MLAT feed. Whatever you're chasing (a specific tail, a class of aircraft, an airport, a maneuver) is almost certainly in there, and you can find it in one sentence.
Why it matters
Ask, don't filter
Describe the flight in ordinary language. The engine handles the tail numbers, ICAO codes, altitude bands, and date math for you.
Search the whole archive
Query a rolling 365-day window of worldwide traffic, not just what's airborne right now, so you can find flights that landed hours or months ago.
Straight to the replay
Every result opens directly into a full 3D replay, incident page, or export. Search is the front door to everything SkyMeter does.
What you get
- Plain-English queries translated to precise archive searches
- Filter by aircraft type, registration, callsign, and operator
- Filter by airport, route, altitude, speed, and time window
- Find by event: go-arounds, diversions, unstable approaches, and more
- Weather-aware queries (wind, conditions at the time of flight)
- Results link straight to replay, incident detail, and downloads
How it works
Your sentence is parsed into a structured query (aircraft, place, altitude, time, and event conditions) and run against the indexed archive.
Only your own text leaves your browser to build the query; results come back ranked and ready to replay. The rigorous side of how flights are reconstructed and classified is documented on our methodology pages.
How SkyMeter worksWho it's for
Enthusiasts
"That widebody that came in low over the house yesterday." Find it without knowing a single code.
Journalists & researchers
Pull every flight matching an event, airport, or aircraft class for a story or study in seconds.
Pilots
Look up your own flight, or a notable approach you heard about, straight to the replay.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a tail number or flight number?
No. You can search by one if you have it, but the whole point of natural-language search is that you don't need to. Describe the aircraft, place, altitude, or event and SkyMeter finds the match.
How far back can I search?
Free access covers the last 7 days. Pro unlocks the full rolling 365-day archive of worldwide flights, and we're actively expanding it toward a four-year backlog.
Is this live flight tracking?
SkyMeter is a historical replay and analytics platform. It searches flights that have already flown so you can study them in full 3D. It isn't a live radar map.
What data powers the search?
A continuously processed global ADS-B and MLAT feed covering millions of flights across more than 60,000 airports.
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Ready to see it on a real flight?
Start free with the last 7 days, or unlock the full archive and exports with Pro.