Feature Request: Aircraft type

[marsfan]

Add identification of aircraft type.

[yuvadm]

@marsfan Are you sure this is part of the ADS-B spec? I'm not sure at all.

[marsfan]

I'm not sure. I just know that another application I use (adsb#/Adsbscope) can tell me what plane type it is (b763, a321, etc).

[hhrhhr]

Adsbscope use a 3rd-party db (adsbscope\extra\icao24plus.txt)

...
4CA242  EI-DCL  B738    B737-8AS/WL
...

[marutan]

I thought I'd drop a line to say that I've implemented this, reading the icao24plus.txt file from adsb scope. I just need to tidy the patch up slightly (and then create a repo on github to pull from)

[SeanMaday]

Is it possible to have this field passed to data.json?

[marutan]

Yes, infact I only output this on the JSON, I didn't want to change the format of anything where dump1090 was acting as 'headless'.

I realised only later that I'd done this on the MalcommRobb fork of dump1090, you can see the pull request and a screenshot over here.

MalcolmRobb#70

[quentin9696]

Hello, were can I find an updated file of icao24.txt ?

Is this file is up to date http://www.tech-software.net/RTL1090/adsb_scope/pc_software/adsbscope/26/extra/icao24plus.txt ?

Regards,