Enhanced Radar opens its air traffic control data to any developer with an API key

The San Francisco startup is selling real-time transcripts, events and flight status from its receiver network through a REST API and MCP server.

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Why it matters

Enhanced Radar built a hard-to-copy collection network before it built an API. Opening that network lets the company sell the same transcripts and event data to airlines, airports, software vendors and independent developers, and tests whether specialized live voice data can support a usage-based business beyond enterprise contracts.

A plane flies toward an airport below a cloudy mountain horizon, with antennas and equipment boxes on a rocky hillside.

Enhanced Radar opened its air traffic control data to outside developers on November 3rd, turning a network built for airlines and airports into a metered API product.…

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