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Historical flight & ship archive

Historic Travel Data

49,590aircraft
20,743,353flight sectors
85,985ships
47,402,739position reports

This is an archive, not a tracker.

Aircraft

49,590 airframes, each with everything held for it — every sector flown and every arrival and departure observed, across 671 types. This is the deepest material here.

Aircraft with the most recorded history
RegistrationType RecordsSpan
G-EUPP A319 50,277 2000–2026
G-EUPO A319 49,971 2000–2026
G-EUPN A319 49,426 2000–2026
G-EUPZ A319 49,196 2001–2026
G-EUOG A319 48,792 2001–2026
G-EUPR A319 48,560 2000–2026
G-EUPG A319 48,111 2000–2026
G-EUPS A319 48,088 2001–2026
G-EUOE A319 47,794 2001–2026
G-EUOF A319 47,432 2001–2025
G-EUPW A319 47,271 2001–2025
G-EUPK A319 45,751 2002–2026

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Routes

12,857 city pairs held, each listing the flight numbers that flew it.

Busiest routes
RouteSectors
EDI–LHR 190,377
GLA–LHR 171,976
LHR–EDI 161,393
AMS–LHR 155,588
CDG–LHR 145,770
LHR–GLA 141,928
MAN–LHR 139,921
LHR–AMS 131,170
LHR–MAN 124,382
LHR–CDG 117,691
BRU–LHR 107,434
FRA–LHR 97,380

Aircraft types

Every airframe recorded as each type.

Most numerous aircraft types
TypeAircraft
B738 1,952
A320 1,715
B77W 800
A319 709
A321 557
B789 557
A332 513
A333 412
A20N 407
A359 382

Airports

These airports hold a record of their own — every arrival and departure observed, not only the flights of the airlines held here. They are addressable down to a single day.

Airports with their own record
AirportYears Records
LHR 1955–2026 London Heathrow Airport 14,678,981
LGW 1970–2026 London Gatwick Airport 5,255,792

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Ships

85,985 vessels and 47,402,739 position reports, identified by IMO number — the identifier that stays with a hull for life, unlike MMSI, which follows the flag and is reassigned.

Vessels with the longest tracking history
IMONameType Days
9292888 SVITZER MUIDEN Tug 1,947
9144081 BASTOE I Passenger 1,947
9144093 BASTO II Passenger 1,947
9240354 TAURUS Towing, length over 200m or breadth over 25m 1,947
7232626 MULTRATUG 11 Tug 1,947
9239587 RPA11 Other type, no additional information 1,947
9008641 JOHN Tug 1,947
9007128 AURORA AF HELSINGBOR Passenger 1,947
5424562 LOFOTEN Passenger 1,947
9286695 SVITZER BIDSTON Tug 1,947

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Airlines

Occurrences are keyed on the operating flight, so a codeshare appears under the airline that actually flew it. Carriers with a thousand or more sectors are shown; all 364 held have a page.

Browsing

Every record is addressable by a path. An aircraft is at its registration (/g-eupp/), a ship at its IMO (/9241061/), a route at its city pair (/lhr-jfk/), and a single flight at its airline, number and date (/ba/117/2024/06/15/). Registrations match with or without the hyphen and redirect to the canonical form.