Corporate Jet Tracker

FAA registration is public. ADS-B Exchange has unfiltered flight data. Combine them and you can map which corporate jets visited which airports in the 60 days before announced deals.

This project tracks PE firm fleets (Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Carlyle), matches flights to target company HQ cities, and builds a base rate of 'visit → deal' conversion. The primary deliverable is a specific case study: pick one announced deal, reconstruct the flight pattern that preceded it, and show the signal would have been detectable.

Data sources: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (free weekly CSV), OpenSky Network (free), ADS-B Exchange (paid historical API).