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Read Aircraft Details, Photos and Data Age

Understand callsign, registration, type, altitude, speed, route, photo attribution and freshness.

Availability: All platforms · Free. Checked for app version: 1.0.0.

Outcome

The detail view combines the selected live track with available aircraft identity, movement and media information.

Aircraft details with flight data, route and photo credit on iPhone

How to do it

  1. Select an aircraft marker or nearby-list row.
  2. Use callsign and registration as the primary identifiers; type and operator information can be incomplete for some tracks.
  3. Read altitude, speed, vertical rate, bearing and distance using the selected unit profile.
  4. Check the observation or update age before treating a value as current.
  5. When a photo is available, read its author and provider credit and use the source link or Apple TV QR code for the original page.
Aircraft detail on Apple Watch
Apple TV radar with aircraft details

Good to know

  • A missing value is shown as unavailable rather than guessed.
  • Aircraft photos are supplementary media and can depict the registered airframe at another time or place.
If the result looks different, open Settings > Help and send the visible status together with device, operating system and app version.
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