Airborne · a live aviation display

Everything overhead,
drawn as it passes.

A screen on your wall showing the aircraft passing overhead as an art print. Real liveries, real routes, real altitudes. In a hallway, an office, or a room where people are waiting for one.

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London · 60 km · nearest first

Sample data

Try it

Switch screens on the bar above the display. Change the panel, the light and the weather here.

Sample flight data The aircraft above are a fixed set, shown to demonstrate the display. On an installation these are the aircraft actually in the sky, read off their own broadcasts and updated every thirty seconds.

438Liveries
400kmRadius
30sRefresh

Every operator and type drawn separately · the radius is yours to set, as far as your aerial reaches · the sky re-read every thirty seconds · five views of it, switched from the one screen.

What it is

Every aircraft in the sky is shouting its own name. Almost nobody is listening.

They broadcast position, height, registration and route, continuously, in the clear, on 1090 MHz. A thirty pound aerial hears them. Airborne works out which aeroplane is which and puts it on the wall.

Not a dashboard. No login on the wall, nothing blinking for attention, no channel to choose. Most of the time it is simply a picture that happens to be true.

Then a 747 freighter goes over at half past two in the morning, or an A400M at four thousand feet, and for a minute it is the most interesting thing in the building.

A plausible wrong aeroplane is worse than no aeroplane.

When it does not know, it shows nothing

The screens

Five ways to read the same sky.

Radar

Everything in range

On a map, with military, low and emergency traffic picked out from the rest.

Scope

Phosphor on black

North up, one sweep every four seconds.

Hangar

Everything you have seen

Every airframe since the day you switched it on, and how close it came.

How it works

Received, matched, drawn.

It listens

Most installations read the sky through adsb.lol, a network of volunteers with aerials on their own roofs, so all it needs is an internet connection. Put an aerial up yourself and it comes straight off the air instead: real time, and no third party between the aircraft and the screen.

It matches

A 24-bit address becomes G-STBH, becomes a 777, becomes British Airways, becomes Johannesburg. All of it on the machine itself.

It draws

That operator, in that livery, on that airframe. Not a silhouette, not a stand-in. And if we do not have it, nothing at all.

Watch anywhere

Your own sky, or somebody else's.

Berlin
Hong Kong
Faro
The North Atlantic track
Wherever you grew up

Drop the marker anywhere on earth and the display follows that circle instead. A flight school in Nottingham can put the Faro approach on the wall the week its students are going there.

What we are making

Three things, shipping from Q4 2026.

Software

For a screen you have

Windows. You provide the machine.

Five views, switched from the one screen
Runs on a small PC by the screen
Set it to your own sky, or anywhere else

The player

Arrives ready

A Raspberry Pi. Plug into any HDMI screen.

Installed, licensed and pointed at your location before it ships
No PC, no terminal, nothing to set up on site
Waiting on unattended power-cut recovery before we post one

A receiver

If your roof suits

Placed, not sold. Yours to keep.

For roofs where the sky is not already heard
Feeds your own display and the network with it
We look at the coverage map and write back either way

How that works

One list, whichever you want.

Tell us where it would go and what you would want. No payment, no obligation, and the order people register in is genuinely the order they will be installed in.

Everything overhead,drawn as it passes.