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Re:Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker by greatwave1 on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:02AM (#23457076)
In April 2019, a jet owned by Occidental Petroleum Corp. touched down in Omaha. Two days later, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made a $10 billion investment in the company.

Hedge funds have been using corporate flight data to predict M&A activity and investments for years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-02/hedge-fun...), but existing data providers are too expensive for most non-professional investors.

I built this free dashboard using publicly-available data from the FAA and the Open-Sky Network.

Re:Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker by dsl on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:25PM (#23459848)
I've worked closely with executive protection and corporate security. Despite the occasional screw up it is a "known thing" that hedge funds have been tracking tails for years and rent jets for sensitive meetings. Hedges have also caught on to swapping planes during a refueling stop (Colorado and Nashville were common for this).

Companies with multi-plane fleets usually have at least one "anonymously" registered via Aircraft Guaranty or Wells Fargo Trustee Services.

(Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk more about this offline).

Re:Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker by fheilz on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:54PM (#23461232)
Do corporations use their Netjets/Flexjet subscriptions for sensitive flights?
Re:Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker by petee on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:08AM (#23457145)
nice! it would be great if flight groups could be colored differently, its a little difficult to figure what youre looking at since you have to deselect all the others
Re:Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker by greatwave1 on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:15AM (#23457203)
Thanks!

I'll look into changing the colors, but you should be able to isolate one group by double-clicking on it.