Rebuilding the foundation of aviation data
Why we started
Real-time flight tracking was built on the goodwill of a community — thousands of enthusiasts running ADS-B receivers from their homes. A handful of companies turned that volunteer data into businesses worth hundreds of millions, then sold to owners optimising for cash flow, not for what comes next.
The data underneath never really improved: hobbyist hardware, signals that can be spoofed, seconds of latency, and coverage that stops wherever the volunteers happen to live. Aviation — and the AI now being built on top of it — deserves a better foundation than that.
So we set out to build one: a network owned and operated to a professional standard, where the data is trustworthy by design.
What we built
Wingbits operates the world’s largest network of professionally run ADS-B ground stations — identical, secure hardware, each with a unique ID, so every signal is verified to its receiving station and cross-checked across the network to flag spoofing. Operators are paid for the quality and uptime of the data they deliver, which is how the network reached 120+ countries in two years without trading away trust.
Wingbits.AI is the layer on top. Ask live and historical flight data anything in plain English, and create scheduled AI agents that deliver alerts and reports to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, or email — no integrations to build, no code to write.
Built on our own ground network
- 6,000+
- Stations deployed
- 120+
- Countries
- 200,000+
- Flights tracked daily
- Under 1s
- Stream latency
Every answer is backed by data from our own professionally operated ground network — authenticated at the receiver, with spoofing detected across the network.
Started in Sweden, now flying across five countries.
We began in Sweden and now work as a distributed team across Sweden, the UAE, the United States, Italy, and Canada — combining aviation and ADS-B network expertise with backgrounds from Klarna, Spotify, Google, Volvo, and Amazon, united by the belief that aviation data should be open, verifiable, and useful to everyone building on it.