Aviation data for your AI assistant
Connect SkyLink API to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client in under a minute. Ask about live flights, weather, NOTAMs, and ADS-B positions — your AI gets real data, not hallucinations.
Live aviation data as native AI tools
Stop asking your AI to guess. Give it live access to the same data aviation professionals use every day.
Works with Claude Desktop & Cursor
Drop the MCP config into Claude Desktop or Cursor and immediately start querying live flights, weather conditions, airport details, and NOTAMs. One JSON snippet, instant access to 25+ aviation tools.
Full aviation data coverage
Every SkyLink API endpoint available as an AI tool — real-time flight status, decoded METAR/TAF weather, live ADS-B positions, aerodrome chart PDFs, NOTAMs, FAA delays, and ML flight-time predictions.
No infrastructure to manage
The MCP server runs on RapidAPI Hub — no Docker, no self-hosting, no ports to open. Your AI client connects via npx mcp-remote with your API key. Zero DevOps.
Secure & rate-limited by design
Your RapidAPI key is passed as a request header — never in URLs or logs. Access is scoped to your plan's quotas, and you can rotate or revoke keys at any time from the RapidAPI dashboard.
Start free — 1,000 requests/month, no credit card required.
Connect live aviation data to your AI assistant in under a minute.
What you can build
From personal flight planning to production aviation workflows — here's what developers are doing with the SkyLink MCP server.
Pre-flight briefing assistant
Ask your AI to summarise weather, active NOTAMs, and FAA delays for a route before departure. Get a full operational picture in a single conversation — no tab-switching required.
Live flight monitoring
Track any aircraft by registration or flight number. Ask your AI to watch a specific tail number and report its current position, altitude, speed, and estimated arrival in plain English.
Weather-aware route planning
Pull METARs, TAFs, PIREPs, and AIRMET/SIGMETs for any airport or region. Let your AI interpret the data, flag risks, and suggest alternate routing — all from a natural language prompt.
Aviation app prototyping
Prototype aviation features inside Cursor without context-switching. Ask the AI to fetch live data, inspect the response structure, and generate the integration code — all in the same editor session.
NOTAM & advisory digests
Query raw NOTAMs for one or many airports and ask your AI to translate them into plain English, group them by type, or flag anything operationally significant for your flight.
Airport & airspace research
Look up runway details, frequencies, navaids, and procedures for any of 74,000+ airports worldwide. Pull aerodrome charts as PDFs and ask your AI to explain approach procedures or airspace structure.
Set up in under a minute
Paste this config into your MCP client's settings. Replace YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY with your key from RapidAPI, save, and restart your client.
Works with Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client that supports the mcp-remote transport.
{
"mcpServers": {
"RapidAPI Hub - SkyLink API": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.rapidapi.com",
"--header",
"x-api-host: skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com",
"--header",
"x-api-key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"
]
}
}
}Frequently asked questions
What is MCP and how does it work?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants call external APIs as native tools during a conversation. When you ask Claude or Cursor a question, it can automatically invoke a SkyLink API tool — fetching live data and incorporating it into its response, just like a function call.
Which AI clients are supported?
Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client that supports the mcp-remote transport. The configuration is a standard JSON block that works identically across all supported clients.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. SkyLink API includes a free tier on RapidAPI with 1,000 requests per month — enough to explore all 25+ aviation tools. Paid plans scale for production workloads. No credit card required to start.
Do I need to run the MCP server myself?
No. The server is fully hosted on RapidAPI's infrastructure. You only need Node.js installed locally (for npx) — nothing else to deploy or maintain.
Ready to give your AI real aviation data?
Get a free API key on RapidAPI and connect SkyLink to your AI assistant in under a minute. No credit card required.