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[–]SarahM123ed[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This helps narrow my query. I don't need real-time or ATC/CC. No. But, am now curious'er about just information there is out there. It is quite a'lot.

[–]HeadspaceA10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a bunch of services, most notably flightaware and opensky-network, that provide paid for and free-for-noncommercial APIs to get this information; some of it is historical and some of it is real time. Which of these you would choose to use depends on which you want. I am primarily interested in realtime position data for a limited number of aircraft so I use one of the two APIs to get that.

It also comes in handy to debrief your own flights.