Aircraft overhead

adsb_lol.aircraft_near

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Live aircraft near a place, received over ADS-B radio by community receivers: callsign, registration, type, altitude, speed, heading and distance, nearest first.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
`lat`required	number	Latitude in decimal degreesrange: -90 to 90
`lon`required	number	Longitude in decimal degreesrange: -180 to 180
`radius_km`	number	Search radius in kmdefault: 25; range: 1 to 400
`limit`	integer	default: 15; range: 1 to 50

Example output

{"query":{"lat":51.47,"lon":-0.45,"radius_km":25},"time":"2026-11-02T00:36:54.001Z","total":7,"count":5,"aircraft":[{"icao_hex":"42584b","callsign":null,"registration":"TWR","type":"TWR","altitude_ft":"ground","ground_speed_kt":0,"track_deg":null,"vertical_rate_fpm":null,"squawk":null,"emergency":null,"lat":51.47057,"lon":-0.447043,"distance_km":0.2,"seen_s_ago":0.1,"map":"https://adsb.lol/?icao=42584b"},{"icao_hex":"408120","callsign":null,"registration":"G-VEYR","type":"A339","altitude_ft":"ground","ground_speed_kt":0,"track_deg":null,"vertical_rate_fpm":null,"squawk":"2000","emergency":n...

Data license

ODbL 1.0 · Contains information from adsb.lol, made available under the ODbL 1.0. Source

Try it

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Call it

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "adsb_lol.aircraft_near",
    "arguments": {
      "lat": 51.47,
      "lon": -0.45,
      "radius_km": 25,
      "limit": 5
    }
  }
}

curl -sS -X POST https://www.realworldmcp.com/api/call/adsb_lol.aircraft_near \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"lat": 51.47, "lon": -0.45, "radius_km": 25, "limit": 5}'

const res = await fetch("https://www.realworldmcp.com/api/call/adsb_lol.aircraft_near", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({"lat": 51.47, "lon": -0.45, "radius_km": 25, "limit": 5})
});
console.log(await res.json());