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ACS Releases ADS-B TAK Server Injector — Free Real-Time Airspace Awareness for TAK

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ACS Releases Free ADS-B TAK Server Injector.

Live aircraft tracks injected as CoT messages directly into your TAK Server — civilian and military, from the airplanes.live ADS-B network. Free, open source, MIT licensed. Built by ACS in Rome, NY and shared with the TAK community.

The Release

Real-time air picture in your TAK environment — free and open source.

Adeptus Cyber Solutions is releasing the ADS-B TAK Server Injector — a free, open source plugin that pulls live ADS-B aircraft data from the airplanes.live network and injects it as Cursor on Target (CoT) messages directly into any TAK Server 5.x deployment.

Civilian and military aircraft tracks appear as CoT icons in ATAK, WinTAK, and iTAK within seconds of installation. No client configuration required. Set your coverage area in a single YAML file, restart TAK Server, and you have a live air picture.

Built by the ACS engineering team in Rome, NY — the same team that builds custom TAK integrations and data pipelines for DoD and government programs. We built this for our own work and saw no reason not to share it with the community.

Quick Facts

✓  MIT License — free forever
✓  TAK Server 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
✓  Pre-built self-extracting installer
✓  Up to 250nm coverage radius
✓  Civilian & military CoT types
✓  YAML config — no code required
✓  Data: airplanes.live API

View on GitHub →

Installation

Live air picture in four steps.

01

Download

Grab the installer for your TAK Server version from the GitHub Releases page.
02

Install

Copy to your TAK Server and run the self-extracting installer script. Under a minute.
03

Configure

Edit one YAML file. Set center coordinates, coverage radius, and polling interval.
04

Fly

Restart TAK Server. Aircraft appear as CoT icons in ATAK, WinTAK, and iTAK immediately.

Get It Now

Free. Open source. No strings.

MIT licensed and freely available on GitHub. Questions or custom TAK integrations? Contact the ACS team in Rome, NY.

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