FlightAware

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FlightAware AeroAPI MCP — real-time & historical flight tracking: flight status, position, tracks, and airport arrival/departure boards. BYO AeroAPI key.

4 tools

0ms auth

free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

flightaware_flight_status

Get real-time flight status for a flight number or tail number: origin/destination airports,

No parameters required.

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Response

flightaware_flight_track

Get the historical position track (breadcrumb trail of lat/lon/altitude/groundspeed points) for a

No parameters required.

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Response

flightaware_airport_flights

List flights at an airport — arrivals and/or departures with scheduled & actual times.

No parameters required.

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Response

flightaware_flight_position

Get the current/last-known position of an in-air flight: latitude, longitude, altitude, groundspeed,

No parameters required.

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Response

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/flightaware/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/flightaware/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"flightaware_flight_status","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("flightaware_flight_status", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("flightaware aeroapi mcp — real-time & historical flight tracking: flight status, position, tracks, and airport arrival/departure boards");

Related packs

Other Pipeworx packs in the same categories (Travel, Flights):

MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-flightaware": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/flightaware/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}