Model credits & attribution

Last updated: September 8, 2026

Most helicopters on this map are painted by GTLA AirWatch. The paint, markings, materials and rotor animation are ours. The underlying 3D shape very often is not — it starts as a model somebody else built and shared, and this page says who they are.

Base models under a Creative Commons licence

Reused and modified with credit, as their licences allow.

• Robinson R44
  by syarifudinirfan701 — CC BY 4.0
  11 aircraft
• Airbus EC135 / H135
  by GRIP420 — CC BY 4.0
  8 aircraft
• Bell 429
  by agreene (@davidre) — CC BY 4.0
  7 aircraft
• Robinson R22
  by Chris Kuhn (KUHN0362), with a Cycles adaptation by lstewart.3d — CC0 — public domain
  6 aircraft
• Robinson R66
  by GAMICO — CC BY 4.0
  4 aircraft

Generic silhouettes

Used unmodified when we have no livery for a particular aircraft.

• Helicopter, Helicopter-alt, Huey, Bell JetRanger and Eurocopter AStar silhouettes
  by Zsky, jeremy, kazuma and Poly by Google, via Poly Pizza — CC BY 3.0
  shown when we have no livery for an aircraft
• Drone
  by Analytical Graphics, Inc. — mesh and textures by Ed Mackey — CC BY 4.0
  shown for drone traffic

One model with a closed licence

The UH-1 Huey family — 10 aircraft — is built on a model by helijah / Emmanuel licensed under the Sketchfab Standard License, which is not a Creative Commons licence and does not grant redistribution. We credit the author here and in every file, and we claim no ownership of that base geometry.

Please don’t take the model files

The .glb files this site loads are here to draw the map. Republishing, redistributing, or reusing them as standalone 3D assets is not permitted — not by us, and in several cases not by the licences above either. The generic silhouettes are the exception: they are Creative Commons and free for anyone to reuse under their own terms, with credit to their creators.

If you want a model for something, please go to the original creator. The links above are the right place to start.

Everything else

Map imagery, terrain and 3D buildings carry their own credits, shown on the map itself. Aircraft positions come from ADS-B and Mode S data via public aggregators. Wildfire information is per Watch Duty.

Spotted a credit that is wrong, missing, or that you’d like removed? Email Frank@gtla.live and we’ll fix it.

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