# Saylor Innovations Aircraft Tracking

> Saylor Innovations Aircraft Tracking is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Returns live ADS-B aircraft data for all planes currently within a specified radius of a given latitude/longitude coordinate

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/aircraft/near?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-aircraft-tracking-a9ecd440
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WszP3RJCyoSzRgs4DTS-0

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-aircraft-tracking-a9ecd440
```

Example prompt: What aircraft are currently flying within 50 nautical miles of New York City — I need a live count and list of planes from ADS-B data right now. Use coordinates 40.7128, -74.0060.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time worldwide ADS-B aircraft positioning data anchored to a specific geographic point with configurable radius. It is ideal for aviation awareness, drone safety checks, airspace monitoring, and any geospatial query that requires knowing what aircraft are airborne near a coordinate right now. Prefer it over airline schedule APIs when you need live positional data rather than flight timetables.

## Known failure modes

- Missing lat/lon parameters returns an error or empty result
- Radius outside the 1–250 nautical mile range may be rejected or clamped to defaults
- No aircraft in the area returns count=0 with an empty aircraft array
- Invalid coordinate values (out of range) may cause a 400-level error
- Service unavailability or ADS-B feed disruption returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Live Aircraft Near a Location (worldwide ADS-B). Live aircraft near any point or airport worldwide (ADS-B/MLAT): callsign, registration, type, position, altitude, speed, heading, climb rate, squawk and emergency flags, distance — nearest first.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a count of aircraft found and an array of aircraft objects with live ADS-B telemetry data (e.g. flight identifiers, positions, altitudes, speeds) for all planes detected within the specified radius of the given coordinates.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "latitude (query)"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "longitude (query)"
      },
      "radius": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional nautical miles 1-250, default 25 (query)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "count",
      "aircraft"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "aircraft": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-aircraft-tracking-a9ecd440/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)