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 dataTry 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.
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
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.