Every operation at your field, captured automatically.
Skylume turns one plug-in receiver into a complete record of who flew in and out. Takeoffs, landings, touch-and-gos, and low passes are logged with the runway, time, aircraft type, and operator, without a control tower or a clipboard on the ramp.
Self-installing receiver · live within minutes of first traffic
From shipping box to live dashboard in an afternoon.
Setup needs a power outlet and an antenna. Nothing about how your field operates changes.
Plug in the receiver
A pre-configured unit connects to an antenna and self-registers to your field in minutes. Assign it to your airport in the console and setup is finished.
It listens, continuously
Every ADS-B-equipped aircraft in your airspace is decoded and matched to the FAA registry, then classified against your runways and geofence. Pattern work counts too: touch-and-gos and low passes are logged alongside full-stop traffic.
You see the whole picture
A live map, operations analytics, economic-impact reporting, and one-click exports, accurate from your first day of traffic and always current.
The complete operational record of your airfield.
Built for the questions FBOs and airport boards have to answer.
Complete operations log
Takeoffs, landings, touch-and-gos, and low passes, each tagged with runway end, timestamp, tail number, and type. Most systems only see full stops. Skylume counts the pattern work too.
Real aircraft identity
Mode S decoded and joined to the 313,000-aircraft FAA registry for make, model, type, and operator, with fallback coverage for military and foreign tails.
Live traffic map
A scale drawing of your own runways and taxiways with live aircraft moving across it, from short final down to taxi speed on the ramp.
Operations analytics
By hour, day, month, and night; based vs. visiting aircraft; repeat circuits; fleet composition. The figures airport boards and grant applications keep asking for.
Economic impact
Visitor spending, fuel uplift, and jobs supported, modeled from your real traffic. Every assumption is shown on screen and adjustable, so you can explain each figure when a council member asks where it came from.
Weather & reports
Current METAR and TAF alongside the traffic, plus CSV and Excel exports of any window, ready to drop into a board packet.
The visits that never made it onto an invoice.
Skylume reconciles every detected visit against your fuel and fee records. Transient aircraft that arrived, parked, and departed without a transaction land on a review list with the tail number, registered owner, and length of stay, while the visit is still fresh enough to follow up.
- A weekly digest of unmatched visits, with owner name and mailing address from the FAA registry.
- Fee estimates from your own ramp and handling schedule, labeled as estimates until you confirm them.
- Reviewed visits become branded invoices your team approves before anything is sent.
Counting airplanes is the easy part.
The difference is what gets counted, and whether you can stand behind the number when someone challenges it.
Honest numbers
Every figure is labeled measured or modeled, and every modeling assumption is visible and editable. You report what you can defend.
It sees the whole operation
Touch-and-gos and low passes make up most of the flying at a training or recreational field. Skylume detects and counts them, so pattern work shows up in your totals.
Identity with every operation
Each operation carries a tail number, the aircraft behind it, and whether that aircraft is based at your field or visiting. That turns a traffic count into a customer list.
Plug-and-play
One pre-configured receiver that self-registers to your field. After that, nobody has to log operations by hand again.
On duty around the clock
The receiver runs day and night, so the 6 a.m. medevac departure and the Sunday evening pattern session make it into the record even when nobody is at the desk.
Your data stays yours
Strict per-operator isolation, and the option to run on infrastructure you control. Your field's record belongs to your field.
Curious what's flying over your field right now?
Tell us about your airfield and we'll walk you through what Skylume would capture at a field like yours.
Let's talk about your field.
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