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ADS-B TAK Server Injector.
Real-Time Airspace Awareness for TAK.

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, no strings. Built by ACS in Rome, NY and shared with the TAK community.

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TAK Server ADS-B Plugin

Real-time aircraft situational awareness for your TAK environment — civilian and military tracks, injected as CoT messages directly from the airplanes.live ADS-B network.

Install on any TAK Server 5.x. Set your coverage area in one YAML file. Restart. Aircraft icons appear in ATAK, WinTAK, and iTAK within seconds — no additional client configuration required.

Built by the team at Adeptus Cyber Solutions in Rome, NY — the same engineers who develop 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.

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
✓  Rich metadata (reg, type, squawk, alt)
✓  YAML config — no code required
✓  HTTP/HTTPS proxy support
✓  Data: airplanes.live API

Non-commercial / research use per airplanes.live ToS. Not for safety-of-life applications.

How It Works

Live air picture in four steps.

01

Download

Grab the installer for your TAK Server version (5.4, 5.5, or 5.6) from the GitHub Releases page.

02

Install

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

03

Configure

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

04

Fly

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

Our Philosophy

Why do we give this away?

The TAK ecosystem runs on contributions from its community. We built this plugin because we needed it ourselves — and we saw no reason not to share it. Good tools make better operators. Better operators make safer missions.

Adeptus Cyber Solutions works at the intersection of cybersecurity and the defense and public safety communities. Free tools like this represent who we are — not a lead magnet, not a stripped-down demo. Just useful software, openly shared from Rome, NY.

Work With ACS

ADS-B data provided by airplanes.live for non-commercial, research, and demonstration purposes only. Commercial use requires a license from airplanes.live. Not intended for operational, commercial, or safety-of-life applications. MIT License — Copyright © 2026 Adeptus Cyber Solutions, LLC.