Bring your Flightradar24 Business contract to SignalGuard to upgrade the airspace signal with full ADS-B coverage, including military and obscured flights that the free OpenSky path can't see.
What Flightradar24 Business adds to SignalGuard
The airspace signal lives in SignalGuard's Movement pillar — one of the 50+ signals feeding the venue threat score. The default path uses OpenSky's open ADS-B feed, which is excellent for civilian aviation but blind to military, calibration, and operator-obscured tracks. Flightradar24 Business closes that gap with a commercial feed that aggregates terrestrial ADS-B, MLAT, satellite, and FAA data.
For event security, that matters around TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) windows over major venues — major sports finals, VIP appearances, large outdoor events. Flightradar24 surfaces helicopter activity, drone proxies, and adjacent traffic that often won't show on OpenSky's free feed, and tags military assets that are otherwise invisible.
Inside SignalGuard, FR24 data reshapes the airspace severity score — closer, denser, faster-moving tracks raise the signal, and unusual military or helicopter activity flags for operator review alongside other venue signals.
How the integration works
Paste your Flightradar24 Business API key into the Flightradar24 tile at /integrations. SignalGuard format-checks the key on submission (FR24's commercial API has no public probe endpoint) and stores it AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. Real auth errors surface on first signal-time use.
Common use cases
- TFR-window airspace monitoring for major sporting and political events
- VIP-protection helicopter and corporate-jet awareness at venues
- Drone-proximity correlation with ADS-B tracks
- Festival and outdoor-venue airspace risk assessment
- Cross-checking OpenSky coverage gaps for military or obscured flights
- Aviation-adjacent venues (airfield events, air shows) needing dense coverage
What you need
A Flightradar24 Business contract. The API is partner-only; pricing typically starts around $1K/mo depending on coverage scope. Begin at business.flightradar24.com for a sales conversation.
FAQ
Do I need a Flightradar24 subscription? Yes — the FR24 enrichment is BYOK-only. Without it, SignalGuard's airspace signal still runs on OpenSky's free path with civilian-only coverage.
Where do I add my key? In your SignalGuard workspace at /integrations. Open the Flightradar24 tile and paste your key.
Is my key secure? Yes. Keys are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, only decrypted in server memory during a request, and never sent to the browser or written to logs.
Connect Flightradar24
Connect Flightradar24 in your SignalGuard workspace → and read the signal docs for how airspace feeds Movement.