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Data sources and notices

VECTORS draws your flights from your own records and enriches them with the open and licensed data below. Each source is credited where its data appears. Your flight history itself is yours and is not part of any of these databases.

Actual flight paths are derived from ADSB.lol data under the Open Database License. How VECTORS processes that data is published, free, at Open data & methods. Nothing in VECTORS’ terms restricts your reuse of data that is offered under ODbL or ODC-By.

Airport surfaces and flight paths are for personal interest, not for navigation or any operational use.

ADSB.lol

Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 · Actual flight paths and what was observed about them (aircraft, takeoff and landing times), from ADS-B position reports.

Contains information from ADSB.lol, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Open data & methods — the method VECTORS applies to this data, offered under ODbL §4.6(b).

Mictronics aircraft database

Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 · Aircraft registration and type as they arrive inside ADSB.lol data.

Contains information from the Mictronics aircraft database, which is made available here under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.

FAA Aeronautical Information Services, Airport Mapping

U.S. Government work, provided for public use · Runway, taxiway, apron and building outlines at U.S. airports.

Airport surfaces: Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization, Mission Support Services, Aeronautical Information Services, Airport Mapping (modified by VECTORS). Not for navigation. Not endorsed by the FAA.

OurAirports

Public domain (Unlicense) · Airport locations, codes and runway reference data.

Airport and runway reference data from OurAirports, released to the public domain.

Natural Earth

Public domain · Land, coastlines, lakes, borders and place labels.

Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.

GeoNames

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Airport time zones, which turn recorded clock times into local times.

Airport time zones derived from GeoNames (geonames.org), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. GeoNames supplies the data without warranty and does not endorse VECTORS.

Flightradar24

Flightradar24 API terms · Selected flight facts when open ADS-B data cannot identify a flight.

Some flight facts are provided by Flightradar24.

FAA aircraft type designators

U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. §105) · Aircraft type names and families.

Aircraft type designators are based on FAA publications, a U.S. Government work. Not endorsed by the FAA.

U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics

U.S. Government work (public domain) · Identifying which airline operated a scheduled U.S. flight, and on-time arrival statistics for U.S. domestic flights.

Uses U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics data, a U.S. Government work. Not endorsed by the DOT.

Kim Lage, LATAM model planes

MIT License · Aircraft images in Passport, rendered from 3D models in a neutral VECTORS finish.

Aircraft images are renders of 3D models by Kim Lage, used under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2026 Kim Lage.

Wikimedia Commons airline logos

Public domain (per file) · Airline logos in Passport.

Airline logos are public-domain files from Wikimedia Commons. Airline names and logos are trademarks of their owners; they are shown only to identify the airline and imply no affiliation with or endorsement of VECTORS.