About Arkansas ADS-B Network
The Network
The Arkansas ADS-B Network is a volunteer-run, statewide network of 1090 MHz receivers. Neighbors, pilots and hobbyists point a small antenna at the sky, share what they hear, and together we get a live picture of the aircraft over Arkansas.
Every aircraft carries a transponder that announces its identity, position, altitude and speed on 1090 MHz (ADS-B). Each station in the network receives those broadcasts with an inexpensive receiver and sends them to a central hub, which merges them into one statewide picture. Where stations overlap, coverage is better; where they do not, a new station fills a gap.
See the aircraft right now on the Live Map, browse the stations, or look up an airport. Want to add a station of your own? Start with How to Feed. Questions? Contact us.
Your Privacy
Station owners decide how precisely their location is shown: by default it is rounded to roughly six miles, and it can be made exact or hidden. The public pages show station names and statistics, never home addresses. Aircraft data is public radio traffic.
The site uses a sign-in cookie for members and stores your display choices (theme, clock and time zone) in your browser or account. It does not use advertising or tracking cookies, and aircraft lookups are made by the portal on your behalf, so the outside services do not see which aircraft you looked at.
Built With Open Source, and Credits
This site stands on the work of many open-source projects and open data providers. Thank you to all of them. Each remains under its own license.
| Used for | Project | License |
|---|---|---|
| Receiving, merging and serving aircraft data | readsb, tar1090 and the SDR Enthusiasts Ultrafeeder | GPL |
| Maps | Leaflet | BSD 2-Clause |
| Map data and images | OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL |
| Airports, runways and frequencies | OurAirports | Public domain |
| Aircraft photos | Planespotters.net; each photo credits its photographer | The photographers' own terms |
| Aircraft types, owners and flight routes | adsbdb and the community route data from adsb.im | Their own terms |
| Airline logos on map labels | Each logo belongs to its airline and is shown only to identify the aircraft's operator. Military aircraft show the official emblem of their service (works of the US government, from Wikimedia Commons) | Trademarks of their owners; US government works |
| Statistics graphs | Grafana and Prometheus | AGPL 3.0 / Apache 2.0 |
| Web application | Flask, PostgreSQL, Docker and Watchtower | BSD / PostgreSQL / Apache 2.0 |
| Typefaces | Inter and JetBrains Mono | SIL Open Font License |
The look and workings of this portal are original to this network; none of the sites mentioned endorse it. This version of the portal was built on 2026-10-06.