We’re thrilled to launch the new Flightradar24 filters in our mobile app. With the addition of new filters in the mobile app, filters are now synced across the app and web. You’ll see all of your filters wherever you’re using Flightradar24.
IMPORTANT: Because of the significant revisions to how filters work, existing filters in the app will not be retained. Any filters already created on Flightradar24.com will now be visible in the app.
One click categories
The biggest change to filters is one of the most requested Flightradar24 features of all time — categories. You can now filter for different types of flights with just one click. Choose a single category or multiple categories, like Passenger, Cargo, or Military.
New custom filters
Filter by Airline
Add an airline filter by ICAO code or just start typing the airline name and select it from the list. When selecting an airline, you’ll now see the option to choose “Painted as” or “Operating as”.
“Painted as” filters all aircraft that are painted in a specific airline’s livery, but may in fact be operated by different airlines. The most common example of this is when a regional airline like SkyWest Airlines is operating flights for a larger airline, like United Airlines.
“Operating as” filters will show all aircraft operating under than airline’s ICAO call sign, regardless of whether or not they are aircraft owned by that airline.
Separate airline ICAO call signs with a comma to choose multiple airlines, or after selecting an airline return to the search bar and begin searching for another airline. Once you have selected all the airlines you want to add to this specific filter, click continue to choose other parameters or save your filter.
Filter by Aircraft
Changes to the Aircraft filter have also been heavily influenced by user feedback. The biggest change to aircraft filtering is the ability to filter for aircraft based on exact matches for the ICAO code. Previously, if you wanted to filter for C-17 cargo aircraft using aircraft filter “C17” you would see C-17s and Cessna C-172s.
Now, you’ll only see what you want to see. Entering or searching for an ICAO aircraft type code will allow to choose that aircraft and that aircraft only.
If you want to use partial ICAO codes to see all aircraft types in a family, use a *. For example, to see all Boeing 777s, use “B77*”. To include multiple specific aircraft, separate each with a comma.
Filter by Airport
With airport filters, you can filter for flights to or from (or both) the selected airports. We’ve also added the ability to select entire countries. For instance, if you want to see flights to every airport in Australia, or from every airport in Brazil, search for the country name and choose which direction of travel you’d like to view.
Filter by Route
Take airport filters a step further and see flights between two airports or two countries. Or 3 countries and 4 airports. Or… you get the idea. Combine airports and countries in origin and destination and easily flip the filter to see the reverse flow.
Advanced filters
We’ve moved call sign filtering to advanced filters as it now filters on specific call signs instead of whole airlines. You can add a * at the end of a call sign to see all call signs matching that prefix, for example, “BAW1*” will show all British Airways flights that begin with BAW1.
The registration filter acts much the same way as call sign.
Newly added is filter by squawk. Enter any four digit squawk code to view flights broadcasting that code. Common codes include 1200 and 2000. Or you can enable filtering for codes like 7600 (radio failure) and 7700 (general emergency).
Filter by radar allows you to enter a specific Flightradar24 receiver ID to see which flights are being tracked by that receiver.
Speed and altitude remain available as filter options.
And the final new filter is aircraft age. Want to see the oldest aircraft being tracked by Flightradar24? Just use the sliders to select the years you’re interested in and click add.
Combining filters
The best part of all the new and updated filters is that you can combine them to find exactly what you’re looking for in a single filter.
![An example full flight summary response from the Flightradar24 API: { "data": [ { "fr24_id": "0987654321", "flight": "SK1415", "callsign": "SAS1415", "operated_as": "SAS", "painted_as": "SAS", "type": "A20N", "reg": "SE-DOY", "orig_icao": "ESSA", "orig_iata": "ARN", "datetime_takeoff": "2023-01-27T05:15:22", "runway_takeoff": "12R", "dest_icao": "EKCH", "dest_iata": "CPH", "dest_icao_actual": "EPWA", "dest_iata_actual": "WAW", "datetime_landed": "2023-01-27T06:15:10", "runway_landed": "27L", "flight_time": 3600, "actual_distance": 1007.74, "circle_distance": 6245, "category": "Passenger", "hex": "4A91F9", "first_seen": "2023-01-27T05:06:22", "last_seen": "2023-01-27T06:18:10", "flight_ended": "true" } ] }](https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Flight-summary-API-cover-300x148.jpg)
![An example full flight summary response from the Flightradar24 API: { "data": [ { "fr24_id": "0987654321", "flight": "SK1415", "callsign": "SAS1415", "operated_as": "SAS", "painted_as": "SAS", "type": "A20N", "reg": "SE-DOY", "orig_icao": "ESSA", "orig_iata": "ARN", "datetime_takeoff": "2023-01-27T05:15:22", "runway_takeoff": "12R", "dest_icao": "EKCH", "dest_iata": "CPH", "dest_icao_actual": "EPWA", "dest_iata_actual": "WAW", "datetime_landed": "2023-01-27T06:15:10", "runway_landed": "27L", "flight_time": 3600, "actual_distance": 1007.74, "circle_distance": 6245, "category": "Passenger", "hex": "4A91F9", "first_seen": "2023-01-27T05:06:22", "last_seen": "2023-01-27T06:18:10", "flight_ended": "true" } ] }](https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Flight-summary-API-cover-768x378.jpg)
