Harrison Farrell.

I built Celebplanes in early 2025 after spending an embarrassing number of evenings refreshing ADS-B Exchange to see whether a specific aircraft had landed yet. The premise was simple: every private jet in U.S. and European airspace is broadcasting its position in the clear, on a frequency anyone with a $20 antenna can read — there's no good reason that data should be locked behind paywalled aggregators when the underlying transmission is already public.

Day-to-day I write and edit the dispatches that go out when a tracked aircraft lands. The flight figures themselves (route, duration, altitude profile, fuel burn estimate, CO₂ tonnage) are computed automatically from the ADS-B trail, but the surrounding context — why the trip might matter, what's happening at the destination, the owner's recent public itinerary — is researched and written by me before it's published. Corrections get a dated note appended to the article and a short post on the Celebplanes Bluesky.

What I cover

The roster currently spans about a hundred named individuals (musicians, athletes, founders, heirs, journalists) and a few hundred corporate aircraft registered to publicly traded companies. The full list — and the editorial policy that governs who gets added or removed — lives on the About page. The calculation behind every CO₂ figure is documented in the Methodology.

Standards I work to

Every dispatch goes through three checks before it ships: the ADS-B trail has to reconcile across at least two independent feeds (we drop the dispatch if a single feed reports a flight that nobody else sees); the destination claim has to match the arrival airport on the trail (not just the flight plan); and any sentence asserting why the trip happened has to cite a public source — a news outlet, an SEC filing, a public schedule. Nothing on Celebplanes is invented; if I can't source a claim, it doesn't go in the article.

I don't track anyone whose registration is hidden under the FAA's Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed program. The Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) program is honoured by default. If you're a public figure who'd like to be removed from the roster, email me at the address below and I'll take you off within 24 hours.

Contact

[email protected] — corrections, takedown requests, press enquiries, tips. I read every message; the auto-reply will tell you if I'm out for a day or two.

For journalists, the press page has high-resolution screenshots, a data summary, and citation text you can paste directly into a story.

Celebplanes is independent and ad-supported. I have no commercial relationship with any of the individuals, companies, or aircraft operators referenced on the site.