Asking when a specific flight lands, or what is currently in the air over a region, is the kind of question a web search answers badly and a live feed answers exactly — and here it happens inside the conversation you are already in. The cost is the data, not the software: the API needs a Flightradar24 subscription, and without a valid key nothing responds.
A small MCP server that puts Flightradar24's live flight data behind a Claude Desktop conversation, so questions about specific flights and airports are answered from real-time data.
- Real-time tracking of a named flight
- Arrival and departure times for a specific flight
- The status of flights at an airport
- Monitoring for aircraft that have declared an emergency
A Flightradar24 API key, which is a paid subscription. Clone the repository, install and build with npm, then set `FR24_API_KEY` and `FR24_API_URL` in your client config and restart it. Use the full absolute path to the built entry point — a relative path is the most common reason the client cannot connect.
One command plus a key — npx -y flightradar24-mcp-server, then supply credentials