FlightAware MCP
A community MCP server that wraps the FlightAware AeroAPI v4 to provide real-time and historical flight tracking capabilities. It exposes four tools for retrieving flight status, historical position tracks, airport arrival/departure boards, and current flight positions, requiring users to provide their own AeroAPI key.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- Get real-time flight status for a flight number or tail number
- Retrieve historical position tracks with lat/lon/altitude data
- List arrivals and departures for a specific airport
- Get current or last-known position of an in-air flight
Source and maintenance
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware 0.2.0
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "PIPEWORX_API_KEY",
"description": "Optional Pipeworx API key. Without it calls are anonymous and capped daily; a free key raises the cap."
}
]
}Tools
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Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"flightaware-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-flightaware": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"flightaware-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-flightaware": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"flightaware-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-flightaware": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"flightaware-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-flightaware": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-flightaware@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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