The Tail Sniffer

Live tracking and movement alerts for the aircraft you actually operate. Built for flight departments, management companies, and the crews who fly for them.

The Tail Sniffer is aircraft tracking built for the people who operate airplanes — corporate flight departments, jet-management and fractional operators, and the crews who fly for them.

Most trackers are built for spectators. This one is built for operations: the aircraft you manage, the airports you work out of, and the arrival your day depends on.

YOUR OWN AIRCRAFT, VISIBLE TO YOU Consumer flight trackers filter their displays to comply with FAA data agreements, which means owners and operators often can't see their own aircraft on the platforms everyone else uses. The Tail Sniffer reads ADS-B directly from a community receiver network, so LADD-enrolled and privately operated aircraft stay visible — and every aircraft is labeled with its LADD status. It's a different data source, not a workaround.

WHAT YOU GET • Live fleet map with position history, route replay, and weather radar • Alerts on departure, arrival, transponder power-on, and emergency squawks — by email, push, or both • Watched airports — get told when one of your aircraft lands at a field you care about • Folders to group a fleet, a client, or a handful of tails • Team access with admin and viewer roles, so dispatch, maintenance, and crew see the same picture • Flight history with duration, distance, altitude and speed profiles • CSV export and shareable flight links for handoffs and reporting • 45,000+ airports worldwide, with local field times

BUILT BY A WORKING PILOT The Tail Sniffer exists because its author needed one reliable place to see where the fleet was, where it had been, and to know the moment an aircraft moved.

VERIFIED ACCESS, FREE Access is free for verified pilots, aircraft owners, operators, management teams, and maintenance professionals. Every request is reviewed by a human, so there's a short wait before your account is approved.

Positions update every minute. Flight history is kept for 90 days.