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About the data

Data sources

Sprinkle stitches together 12 authoritative aviation data sources — civil registries, ICAO, OpenAIP, OurAirports, OpenFlights, Wikidata, GeoNames, and OpenSky. Every record carries provenance.

Authoritative

Civil registries first. Where a regulator publishes the data, that's the source of truth.

Reconciled

Cross-source dedup with manufacturer fuzzy-match and Wikidata Q-IDs collapses 109k raw OEMs into ~36k canonical entries.

Provenance-traced

Every row carries a source_id and license posture. Public pages only show data we have the right to redistribute.

  • FAA Aircraft Registry

    US Federal Aviation Administration
    US Public Domain

    MASTER, ACFTREF, ENGINE, and DEALER files. Updated weekly. ~311,000 US-registered airframes.

    Airframes (US)ManufacturersEngines

  • Transport Canada CCARCS

    Government of Canada
    Open Government Licence — Canada

    ~58,000 Canadian-registered airframes with owner detail.

    Airframes (CA)Owners

  • CASA

    Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Australia)
    CC BY 4.0

    ~34,000 Australian-registered airframes, includes native fuel_type.

    Airframes (AU)Fuel type

  • ANAC

    Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Brazil)
    Open data (Brazil LAI)

    ~53,000 Brazilian-registered airframes with the unique PROPRIETARIOS pipe-decoded equity field — 52,910 owner-equity rows.

    Airframes (BR)Fractional ownershipOperator history

  • CAA (New Zealand)

    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    CC BY 4.0

    ~5,000 NZ-registered airframes.

    Airframes (NZ)

  • OurAirports

    David Megginson / community
    Public Domain

    ~72,000 aerodromes worldwide with runway, frequency, and navaid data.

    AerodromesRunwaysFrequenciesNavaids

  • OpenFlights

    OpenFlights project
    ODbL

    ~6,000 operators with ICAO/IATA codes and callsigns.

    AirlinesOperators

  • OpenAIP

    OpenAIP community
    CC BY-NC 4.0

    ~12k airspace polygons, 162k obstacles, 2,168 EU VFR reporting points.

    AirspaceObstaclesReporting pointsHelipadsPPR

  • GeoNames

    GeoNames.org
    CC BY 4.0

    City and region reference for airport geocoding.

    CitiesRegionsTime zones

  • Wikidata

    Wikimedia Foundation
    CC0 / CC BY-SA 3.0

    6,559 entities aliased: 1,383 aerodromes, 4,930 operators, 201 manufacturers, 2,143 aircraft families.

    Cross-source aliasingMultilingual labelsQ-IDs

  • ICAO Doc 8643

    International Civil Aviation Organization
    ICAO terms (commercial license held)

    7,243 ICAO type designators with range, MTOW, cruise speed, dimensions.

    Type designatorsPerformance specs

  • OpenSky Network

    OpenSky Network e.V.
    Research / commercial license held

    Bridges registration ↔ ICAO24 hex for non-open registries (Germany D-, UAE A6-, South Africa ZS-).

    ICAO24 hex bridgeFlight data (internal)