US Aircraft Registry & Airmen Certification Intelligence (FAA)

What you get

• Aircraft master registry: 315,285 registered aircraft with owner name/address, manufacturer/model reference data, engine reference and registration status from the FAA Releasable Aircraft database
• 382,993 deregistered aircraft for historical fleet analysis
• 971,982 certificated airmen with 1,075,383 certificates and ratings from the FAA Releasable Airmen monthly release
• Ownership-change event stream that accumulates with each monthly registry snapshot
• Full data dictionary and MANIFEST (sha256, per-table row counts) in every package

Data dictionary summary

Key fields — the full data dictionary ships with every purchase.

Coverage statistics

Records

3,228,401

Registered aircraft

315,285

Countries

53

Fields

151

Time coverage

1940-12-26 – 2026-08-03

Largest package

189.6 MB

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 27 packages, 678.0 MB total , 10,174,196 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Machine-readable package index (size / sha256 / rows / channels)
curl -s https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-aircraft-registry-airmen-dataset/packages.json | jq '.packages[0]'

# Request a free sample (signed link sent to your email)
curl -X POST https://dl.zalize.com/api/sample \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"dataset":"us-aircraft-registry-airmen-dataset","email":"you@company.com"}'

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Monthly refresh: aircraft registry snapshot (FAA daily releasable file) + FAA monthly airmen release
• Ownership-change events accumulate with each monthly snapshot — the longer the subscription, the deeper the event history

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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