Meet Wingö: The World's First AI Assistant on a Live Flight Tracking Map
Wingbits
May 8, ‘26
Wingö now lets you talk to the sky
For 15 years, the most-asked question in flight tracking has been the same one. Where is this plane?
A jet you spotted overhead. A callsign from the news. A flight your friend is on. A military aircraft you noticed circling.
Until now, the answer has lived behind hex codes, registry lookups, and forum threads from 2014.
Today, you can just ask.
Wingö is live on the Wingbits map, by pressing the "AI" button. It's the first AI assistant to live inside a flight tracking platform, and it answers questions about live flight data in plain English - no filters, no ICAO type codes, no query builders. Anyone can use it. It's free. It's in public beta. We're shipping early because we want you to break it, and tell us what's missing.
What Wingö can answer today
- Find any aircraft, instantly
Ask by callsign, hex, or tail number and Wingö returns position, altitude, and a one-click jump to the live map.
"Where is BA123?"
You can also go the other direction; ask what's flying over any place at all. Cities, airports, countries, regions, even oceans.
"What's flying over the Gulf of Mexico right now?" "Show me aircraft over the Atlantic." - Tell me everything about this plane
Point Wingö at any aircraft and get a full profile: registration, operator, aircraft type, current flight, today's activity, and notable history.
"Tell me everything you know about DAL201."
It's the deep-dive view that used to take five tabs and a spreadsheet, in one question. - OSINT and military aircraft
The journalists, researchers, and analysts who track military aircraft have been working with tools designed for hobbyists. Hex code lookups. Manual cross-referencing of operator records.
Wingö speaks their language. Look up military airframes by callsign (RCH01), hex prefix (AE* for US, 43C* for UK), or tail number — and jump straight to the map.
The data comes from our network of +5,500 ground stations across 120+ countries, captured directly from aircraft and cryptographically signed. Same network trusted by Korean Air R&D, Spire Global, and DronePort.
"Find military aircraft with hex prefix AE."
We're working on a one-click "show all military" filter and broader fleet-level queries (e.g. "KC-135 tankers over Europe"); until those ship, identifier-based lookup is the way in. - VIP and private jet tracking
VIP flights drive the largest traffic spikes in flight tracking, every time. The Pelosi-to-Taiwan flight. The Queen's coffin. Air Force One redirects mid-flight. Every record was a single aircraft people couldn't stop watching.
Wingö handles VIP and celebrity-linked aircraft lookups directly. If a known jet is broadcasting, the network sees it. - Replay close-encounter events
Every ACAS/TCAS event in our coverage is replayable, with a one-click jump to the incident on the map. Useful for safety researchers, aviation media, and anyone trying to understand what actually happened in an airspace incident. - Same-day aircraft history
Ask what an aircraft has been up to today and Wingö answers: first-seen, last-seen, longest-tracked flight in coverage today, and more.
Currently in beta — feedback welcome
Two capabilities are live but we're still tuning quality:
Emergency squawks — surfacing aircraft transmitting 7500 (hijack), 7600 (radio failure), or 7700 (general emergency). Works today; we're refining response quality and edge cases.
Map-aware queries — ask about "this area" or "what I'm looking at" and Wingö uses your current map view directly. We're validating coverage and accuracy across different viewports.
What makes this possible
Decentralized network. Ground stations across 120+ countries, capturing raw ADS-B signal directly from aircraft. The world's first encrypted ADS-B flight tracking hardware. Not aggregated, not resold — captured directly from the source.
Cryptographically signed data. Wingbits verifies and signs data at the station layer, creating strong disincentives against injecting manipulated telemetry into the network.
Conversational interface. Wingö answers in plain English and links every aircraft directly to the live map. Ask a question, get a structured answer, click through to see it for yourself.
What Wingö can't do yet
Wingö is in beta. Some questions it nails. Some it misses. Some it answers in ways we didn't expect.
Some aircraft won't show up — ADS-B requires the transponder to be on, and tactical or sensitive flights turn it off. Some private aircraft rotate their ICAO addresses every 20 days under the FAA's PIA program. Wingö can only show what's broadcasting.
We're also working on bigger interpretive answers — why a plane is circling, what kind of pattern it's flying, fleet-level "show me all the X over Y" queries. Those are coming, but they're not in this release.
The way the system gets sharper is by seeing how people actually use it. If you've tried it and something didn't work — or worked in a surprising way — we want to know. The next version will be better because of it.
Try it now
Wingö is live at wingbits.com/map. Free, public, in beta. Ask it anything.
This is the first release in a broader rollout.
More coming soon…
Company
Wingbits is a DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) that rewards community members with $WINGS tokens for monitoring aircraft in real-time using specialized ADS-B hardware. The network aligns incentives to compensate participants based on the quality and quantity of flight tracking data they contribute, creating a more equitable alternative to traditional tracking systems. By incentivizing strategic hardware placement and reliable uptime, Wingbits is building the world's largest and most secure flight tracking network while disrupting an industry that has relied on unpaid volunteers for decades.