Press & Gift Guide Kit
The plane overhead, on your shelf
Everything you need to write about NearestPlane: high-resolution images on white, verified product facts, ready-to-use copy at three lengths, and our affiliate terms. Nothing here needs permission — take what you need.
What it is
One sentence, for a standfirst.
A small LED display that shows the aircraft flying over your house right now — the airline in its own brand colours, the route it is flying, its altitude, speed and how far away it is — refreshing every 30 seconds, all day, with no subscription and no app.
Fact sheet
Every figure here is checkable. Last updated September 2026.
| Product | NearestPlane live flight display |
|---|---|
| Price | £124.99 (reduced from £139.99) |
| Delivery | Free to the UK · £9.99 Europe · £24.99 rest of world |
| Made in | The United Kingdom — designed, built and hand-assembled. Not drop-shipped. |
| Display | 64 × 32 RGB LED matrix in a matte black case |
| Power | USB-C from a 5V 3A mains wall plug. Cable included, plug is not — most phone chargers already are 5V 3A |
| Setup | From a phone browser in about two minutes. No app to install |
| Running costs | None. No subscription, ever |
| Refresh rate | Checks the sky every 30 seconds |
| Airline database | Around 5,900 airlines, maintained in-house and kept current through the airline scheduling seasons |
| In the box | Display in a protective case, USB-C cable, printed quick-start guide, NFC tag for instant support |
| In use | Over 3,000 displays in homes across more than 50 countries |
| Customer rating | 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot, from 125 reviews |
| Warranty | 14-day returns · 6-month warranty · lifetime support from a person |
| Buy | nearestplane.com/buy |
Images on white
Free to use in editorial coverage. Right-click to save, or use the links under each shot. Transparent PNGs are there if your designer wants the display on a different ground.
See it working
Short loops from the real product, free to embed in online coverage. These carry the thing a still cannot: it moves, and it is live.
Emergency alerts have no loop of their own, for the obvious reason that they cannot be staged — but the still above shows exactly what an owner sees when an aircraft within range squawks 7700. The whole screen turns red and names the flight.
In real homes
Context shots, if a white background is not the look you want.
What owners actually say
Posts from our owners' group, unedited. Reproduced here with names as they were posted publicly — see the note at the foot of this section before republishing.
Owners' own photographs
Sent in by customers, not shot by us. This is what the display looks like in an ordinary room, in ordinary light.
Before you republish a named post: these people posted in a public owners' group, not to a press office. The product images higher up this page are yours to use freely; for a customer's name, face or words, ask us first and we will get their say-so. It normally takes a day.
How it works
Three steps, and then it looks after itself.
- Plug it inUSB-C into any mains wall socket. It wakes straight into setup.
- Connect it to WiFiThe display broadcasts its own network for a moment. Join it from a phone, pick your home WiFi, done. No app, no account.
- Watch the skiesIt finds the nearest aircraft and shows it. From then on it updates itself — including firmware — with nothing to maintain.
Key features
The things owners actually talk about.
Real airline colours
Around 5,900 airlines, each drawn in its own brand colour — easyJet orange, Swiss red, Ryanair blue. Recognisable at a glance from across the room.
Routes you can read
Not just a callsign. "Zurich–Milan", or airport codes if you prefer them. Our route data is built and maintained in-house rather than bought in, so it stays right when schedules change.
Emergency alerts
If an aircraft within range squawks 7700, the whole display turns red and tells you which one. Owners find this genuinely gripping.
More than airliners
Military transports, police helicopters, air ambulances, and state aircraft including the UK Prime Minister's.
Track any flight on earth
Ask it to follow a specific flight — a relative coming home, a holiday departure — and it stays on that one until it lands.
Yours to set up
Feet or metres, miles or kilometres, how far out to look, which aircraft types to ignore, and a night mode so it goes dark while you sleep.
No subscription
Pay once. No account, no monthly fee, no data plan. Firmware updates arrive free, for as long as you own it.
Real support
An NFC tag in the box gets you straight to a person — not a chatbot, and not a queue. Lifetime, on every unit.
Why it works as a gift
The buyer is obvious
Anyone under a flight path. Aviation enthusiasts, pilots, cabin crew, air traffic controllers, retired RAF. Anyone whose dad points at planes.
It solves the hard one
It is the answer to "what do you get someone who has everything" — unusual, useful every day, and nothing like another gadget.
It photographs well
Bright, colourful and instantly legible in a still. It performs in a gift roundup rather than sitting there as another black box.
British-made matters
Hand-assembled here, by a small team, with a real person answering the support email. That is increasingly rare at this price and readers respond to it.
Ready-to-use copy
Three lengths. Take whichever fits and edit freely — no approval needed.
Short — for a listing or caption
A British-made LED display that shows the plane flying over your house right now — airline, route, altitude and speed, refreshing every 30 seconds. No subscription, no app. £124.99, free UK delivery.
Medium — for a gift guide entry
If you know someone who looks up every time a plane goes over, this is the present. NearestPlane is a small LED display, hand-assembled in the UK, that shows the aircraft above your house in real time — the airline in its own brand colours, where the flight came from and where it's going, its altitude, speed and distance. It refreshes every 30 seconds, all day. It even turns red if a plane within range declares an emergency. Setup is a two-minute job from your phone's browser — no app, no account, and no subscription ever. It arrives in a protective case with a cable and a printed guide, and there's an NFC tag in the box that puts you through to a real person if you need one. £124.99 with free UK delivery. Over 3,000 are already in homes across more than 50 countries, rated 4.9 on Trustpilot.
Long — for a feature or review
Most of us have stood in the garden squinting at a contrail, wondering where that one's going. NearestPlane answers it, permanently, from a shelf. It's a small LED matrix display, designed and hand-assembled in the UK, that shows the aircraft currently overhead: the airline written in its own brand colours, the route in plain city names — "Zurich–Milan" — and beneath that the altitude, speed and how far away it is. It checks the sky every 30 seconds, so it's genuinely live rather than a slideshow. What separates it from the handful of similar gadgets is the data underneath. Route information is the hard part of flight tracking: airline schedules shift twice a year and most cheap trackers lean on free databases that quietly go stale, so you get confident-looking routes that are simply wrong. NearestPlane maintains its own database of around 5,900 airlines and keeps it current through the scheduling seasons. Anyone who knows aviation notices within a day. It isn't limited to airliners either. Military transports, police helicopters and air ambulances are all identified, as are state aircraft — owners have watched the UK Prime Minister's plane go over and had the display name it. And if an aircraft within range squawks 7700, the international emergency code, the whole screen turns red and tells you which flight it is. That one tends to be the moment people start showing it to visitors. Practically, it asks very little. Plug it into a mains socket with the supplied USB-C cable, join the network it broadcasts, pick your home WiFi from a list on your phone, and it's running — about two minutes, with no app to install and no account to create. After that it updates its own firmware and needs nothing. There's no subscription and never will be. You can set it to feet or metres, choose how far out it looks, filter out aircraft types you don't care about, and give it a night mode so it goes dark while you sleep. It costs £124.99 with free UK delivery, which for something built in small batches by hand feels fair. There are over 3,000 in homes across more than 50 countries, and it holds 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 125 reviews. The box includes an NFC tag that connects you directly to the person who'll answer — a small detail that says a good deal about how the thing is run.
Marketing materials
Ready-to-run creative for affiliates, partners and anyone covering us commercially. Nine concepts, each at 1080×1920 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, and 1080×1080 for feed. Free to use as they are.
Please do not re-crop the 9:16 assets. Everything readable sits between y=260 and y=1430 so it clears the bars on Stories, the caption rail on Reels and TikTok's bottom UI. The blurred area below the copy is where the platform draws its own buttons — it is not empty space.
Affiliate programme
For publishers running commercial content.
| Network | Awin |
|---|---|
| Commission | 10% on every sale |
| Cookie | 30 days |
| Commission basis | Order value excluding VAT and delivery — £104.16 on a standard £124.99 UK order |
| Paid on | New and returning customers. Voucher-code sales included |
| Available | Product feed, banners, custom creative on request |
| Review units | Available to established publishers — just ask |
To join: search for NearestPlane in Awin's advertiser directory, or email nearestplane@gmail.com and we'll send the link. Happy to arrange exclusive codes for the right partners.
On "made in the UK"
Worth being precise, because the phrase gets used loosely. NearestPlane is designed in the UK, assembled by hand in the UK, and supported from the UK. It is not a white-label product with a logo added, and it is not drop-shipped: every unit is built, flashed, tested and packed here before it ships. The software running on it and the servers behind it are ours too. When something goes wrong, the person who answers the email is the person who built it.
Contact
Harry Ingram, founder
Samples, review units, custom photography and interviews — all available. Quick to answer, including at weekends in the run-up to Christmas.