The 5-inch model, for a desk or shelf. When an aircraft comes within a few miles it shows the flight, the route, the aircraft, and a compass direction so you can step outside and find it.
Four sample aircraft on a compass, your house in the middle, rings every 10 km. Tap one and the screen below shows it. Everything moves at real speed; the real thing has twenty or thirty on it at once.
Every airliner broadcasts its position, height and identity on 1090 MHz, all the time, for other aircraft and air traffic control to hear. Squawk has its own small radio and aerial and listens to the same signal. There is no feed to pay for and nothing that can be switched off at someone else's end.
Plug it in and it starts hearing aircraft within a minute. Connect it to Wi-Fi and it adds the airline name, the route, aircraft pictures, a map you can open on your phone, and automatic updates. Without Wi-Fi it still shows callsign, height, speed and where to look.
From my house in Weldon it hears Luton and Birmingham arrivals, the North Atlantic traffic crossing the Midlands at 36,000 feet, the East Midlands freighters at night, and the RAF out of Brize Norton and Wittering. A window aerial pushes it past a hundred miles. Most of the country is under something.
squawk.local on your home networkThe larger model. A 7-inch screen in a wider frame, made for a hallway or kitchen wall. Eight aircraft on the list view; the photo view looks like a picture frame.
Available from February 2027. Expected price around £249.
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This reservation is for the Squawk 5. The first batch of twenty ships in December 2026. Reserving costs nothing: leave your details and I'll email you a payment link when your unit is built and tested. If you've changed your mind by then, just don't pay.
£199 including VAT and UK delivery. 2-year warranty, 30-day returns.
Personalising it with your name or your house name is free: printed into the case, shown on the screen, or both.
Almost certainly. The whole of the UK sits under cruising traffic, and with the window aerial you'll hear aircraft a hundred miles off. Near an airport it rarely goes quiet.
Not for the tracking. Wi-Fi adds routes, airline names, pictures and updates. Without it you still get callsign, height, speed and direction.
Yes. Aircraft broadcast this unencrypted for anyone to receive, and thousands of hobbyists feed it to sites like FlightAware every day.
Yes. Two keyhole slots on the back take ordinary screws. It needs mains power, so run the lead down to a socket.
Send it back within 30 days for a full refund. Details in delivery, returns and warranty.
No. Reserving is free. When your unit is built I email a payment link; you pay then, and it ships the next working day.
Yes, free. It can be printed into the front of the case, shown on the screen when it starts up and in the top bar, or both. When nothing's flying over, the screen says "Quiet skies over" followed by your name.
Me, in Weldon, Northamptonshire. Each one is assembled and tested by hand, which is why batches are small.