VA: Flight Miner

Flight callsign → ICAO hex → country → registration → national registry record. An OSINT lookup chain in one box.

How it works

A callsign (what flight trackers display, e.g. LRC653) is matched to a live aircraft via airplanes.live, giving its ICAO 24-bit hex — the transponder address tied to the physical airframe.
The hex maps to a country of registration via the ICAO Annex 10 allocation ranges (bundled offline).
The registration, type and operator come from the live data plus hexdb.io. US N-numbers are also derived directly from the hex by the FAA allocation algorithm — no database needed.
For the US and UK, the tool queries the national registry (FAA, UK CAA G-INFO) and shows the registered owner, address, registration history and airworthiness detail right here — no need to visit the registry yourself. Other countries get a direct link to the official register.

Flight already landed? Callsigns are reused daily and can be flown by different airframes. Historical lookups ("which airframe flew LRC653 last Tuesday?") are in the CLI, using your free OpenSky Network credentials:

pipx install planeresolver
planeresolver LRC653 --date 2026-07-20

Caveats: ADS-B coverage is crowdsourced, not global. Military aircraft have no civil registry record. US hexes in the FAA Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) block deliberately hide the operator. Registry records show the registered owner — often a trustee or shell, which is itself an investigative lead.