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Video. How Flightradar24 became aviation's most-watched screen

Updated: 17/03/2026 - 7:03 GMT+1

The platform was born out of curiosity. Swedish founders Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg, who ran a flight price comparison site, bought two receivers and put an antenna on a Stockholm rooftop.

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