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What is Wingbits?

Wingbits is a Swedish aviation-data company that operates a community-hosted network of more than 6,000 verified ADS-B ground stations across 120+ countries. It sells live and historical flight data to business customers and builds AI products on that data, including the Wingbits.AI assistant and monitoring agents.

Who it's for: Aviation businesses buying flight data, developers integrating an API or MCP, analysts and researchers, and the station hosts who run the network.

What it does

  • Captures raw aircraft signals directly from the sky with its own receiving stations — it owns the data layer rather than aggregating third-party feeds.
  • Sells live and historical flight data through APIs, data products, and an MCP server.
  • Builds AI products on the data: the Wingbits.AI chat assistant and scheduled monitoring agents.
  • Rewards station hosts for the coverage they add, which grows the network and the quality of installs.

What it does not do

  • Aggregate or resell other networks’ feeds — Wingbits stations are locked and verified and feed only Wingbits.
  • See aircraft that are not transmitting ADS-B.
  • Hold maintenance records, ATC-filed flight plans, or ownership transaction histories.

Data used

  • ADS-B messages received by 6,000+ community-hosted, verified ground stations in 120+ countries
  • MLAT (multilateration) positioning across the network
  • Derived signals: GPS-interference (NACp) statistics and ACAS/TCAS events

Key facts

Founded by
Robin Wingårdh and Alex Lungu
Based in
Stockholm, Sweden
Network
6,000+ verified ADS-B ground stations, 120+ countries
Scale
50+ billion data points processed per day
Latency
Sub-second for 99% of data