Point your phone at any aircraft and take the photo. Live ADS-B confirms exactly what you caught — type, airline, tail number, route — and it joins your hangar. The rarer the catch, the more it's worth.
Scoring runs on live ADS-B. The aircraft has to be operating and transmitting the instant you take the photo — so it's a real catch, not a guess from a picture.
Every aircraft you catch is permanent — organized by manufacturer, airline, and rarity. Hundreds more are out there waiting to be found.
Your hangar tracks progress per airline — how many of each carrier's fleet you've caught, out of how many exist. Go for a complete set, or hunt down the one tail you're missing.
Callsign, flight number, departure and arrival airports, age, altitude, and speed at the exact moment you caught it — pulled straight from the transponder.
AeroQuest is on the App Store now. Android beta access is open — request an invite and we'll add you within hours.
Every capture goes through the same live verification pipeline — nothing is guessed, and nothing gets added to your hangar unless it's confirmed.
Point your camera at an airliner nearby and take a photo.
Your catch is instantly verified against live flight data — no guessing, no fakes.
Every aircraft has a rarity score. The rarer the find, the more it's worth.
Full flight details join your permanent hangar, and you earn XP toward your rank.
A camera-first aircraft spotting game. Photograph a real aircraft, AeroQuest confirms it against live flight data, and it's added to your permanent hangar with full flight details and XP.
The Explorer tier gains access to more captures per day and more Super Zoom uses, as well as early access to beta features!
A limited-use digital zoom boost for aircraft that are too far away to frame normally. Uses reset daily, and Explorer gets more of them per day than free.
Every aircraft type and livery has a base rarity score — common narrowbodies score low, rare widebodies and special liveries score much higher. Bonuses like First Catch of the Day, a newly discovered model or airline, or a brand-new aircraft add extra XP on top.
No. Any real, operating airliner counts. More nearby traffic means more variety, but any flight works.