Public Aircraft Research
Search any US tail number.
Get the public record.
FAA registration, airworthiness directives, and NTSB-recorded events for every aircraft on the US registry — linked back to the source agency on every fact.
Enter any tail starting with N. The leading N is optional — we add it.
01 / What you get
Five sections. Every fact a hyperlink to the source.
Registration
Owner, address, make, model, year, engine, status, dates — every cell links back to the FAA Aircraft Registry.
NTSB Records
Every event on file, with NTSB's published probable-cause text rendered verbatim. Each row links to NTSB.gov.
Airworthiness Directives
FAA airworthiness directives matched to make and model, sourced from the Federal Register. Each entry links to the agency record.
Service Difficulty Reports
FAA SDR portal pointer. The agency does not currently expose a public API — we link out, we don't paraphrase.
Sources & Methodology
Refresh timestamps for every source feeding the page. Methodology page →
No interpretation
No risk scores, no traffic-lights, no rates, no inference. We render what the agency published or we link to where it lives.
02 / Live sample
A few tails currently on file
Click any tail to open its public record. Full registry coverage rolls out as the weekly ETL goes live.
03 / Popular types
Aggregate records by make & model
Each card aggregates the registry, NTSB events on registered tails, and applicable airworthiness directives for a single aircraft type.
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PIPER PA-28-140
4,264 registered · 1,281 NTSB · 50 ADs
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CIRRUS DESIGN SR22
3,992 registered · 536 NTSB · 39 ADs
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CESSNA 172M
3,580 registered · 686 NTSB · 32 ADs
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PIPER PA-28-180
3,503 registered · 805 NTSB · 50 ADs
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PIPER PA-28-181
3,486 registered · 758 NTSB · 49 ADs
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PIPER J3C-65
3,188 registered · 814 NTSB · 12 ADs
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CESSNA 172N
3,139 registered · 763 NTSB · 38 ADs
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CESSNA 172S
3,071 registered · 997 NTSB · 48 ADs
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CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T
2,949 registered · 419 NTSB · 4 ADs
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BEECH A36
2,359 registered · 496 NTSB · 50 ADs
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CESSNA 182P
2,101 registered · 310 NTSB · 33 ADs
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PIPER PA-18-150
2,063 registered · 1,356 NTSB · 35 ADs
04 / Trust
Every fact, one click from the agency that published it.
FAA
Aircraft Registry weekly. Federal Register for airworthiness directives. Nothing curated by us — we render what the agency publishes.
NTSB
CAROL public API for events and case records. Probable-cause text verbatim. Every row links to ntsb.gov.
FAA Privacy Program
Owners enrolled in the FAA Privacy ICAO Address program have their identity suppressed in our render. We refresh PRO state weekly.