FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper — Airplane Tail Number Lookup (N-number)

Look up any US airplane or jet by tail number (N-number), or track tail numbers in bulk — this actor scrapes the FAA Aircraft Registry and returns owner identity, manufacturer and model, registration history, airworthiness, and Mode S hex codes for ADS-B correlation. Covers all ~290K active tail numbers plus historical records. Whether you need a single airplane tail number lookup or a sweeping aircraft tail numbers tracking run across corporate jets, this actor handles it.

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FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper Features

• Extracts 30+ fields per aircraft — N-number / tail number, serial, make, model, owner name, address, registration dates, Mode S hex, and derived flags
• Four query modes: by N-number, by owner name, by manufacturer/model, or a pre-baked corporate-jet sweep
• Returns Mode S hex codes in base-16 for direct ADS-B Exchange / FlightAware correlation — the field most people actually need
• Flags corporate jets (Gulfstream, Dassault Falcon, Bombardier Global, Cessna Citation, Embraer Legacy, Hawker) and vintage / warbird aircraft automatically
• Filters by US state code, two-letter
• Optional exclusion of commercial-airline registrations for HNW-focused pulls
• Fast and cheap per record — no manual cookies, no CAPTCHA solving

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Who Uses FAA Aircraft Registry Data?

• Aviation vendors — surface fleet owners for MRO, fractional, and refurb sales outreach
• HNW lead gen — corporate-jet owners are a high-quality stand-in for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices
• Insurance underwriters — pull a book of registrants by make/model for risk modeling
• ESG and CO2 researchers — aggregate registrations by engine type and manufacture year to build emissions baselines
• Aircraft brokers — track ownership changes on a watchlist of tail numbers
• OSINT analysts — correlate Mode S hex codes with live ADS-B feeds for movement tracking

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How FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper Works

1. Pick a mode — by_n_number, by_owner_name, by_manufacturer_model, or corporate_jet_sweep.
2. Provide the matching input fields (N-numbers / tail numbers, owner names, or make/model pairs). State codes filter results further.
3. The scraper walks the FAA Aircraft Inquiry web forms, fetches detail pages for each tail number, and returns a flat row per aircraft. You get owner identity, registration status, airworthiness data, and Mode S hex.

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Input

Example — manufacturer/model search

{
  "mode": "by_manufacturer_model",
  "manufacturers": ["GULFSTREAM"],
  "models": ["G650"],
  "states": ["CA", "NY", "FL"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example — owner-name search

{
  "mode": "by_owner_name",
  "ownerNames": ["NETJETS"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example — N-number lookup

{
  "mode": "by_n_number",
  "nNumbers": ["N12345", "N102QS", "N221DG"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example — corporate-jet sweep (default)

{
  "mode": "corporate_jet_sweep",
  "states": ["CA"],
  "excludeCommercialAirlines": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	corporate_jet_sweep	by_n_number, by_owner_name, by_manufacturer_model, or corporate_jet_sweep
nNumbers	array[string]	—	Tail numbers (N-numbers) to look up. Accepts N12345 or just 12345
ownerNames	array[string]	—	Owner-name search terms. Fuzzy / prefix match
manufacturers	array[string]	—	Manufacturer search terms (e.g., GULFSTREAM, DASSAULT)
models	array[string]	—	Model search terms. Combined pair-wise with manufacturers
states	array[string]	—	Two-letter state codes to include. Empty = all US states
excludeCommercialAirlines	boolean	false	Drop rows matching common commercial-airline registrant patterns
maxItems	integer	20	Cap on total records returned

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FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper Output Fields

Example output

{
  "n_number": "N221DG",
  "serial_number": "6061",
  "manufacturer": "GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORP",
  "model": "GVI (G650)",
  "aircraft_type": "Fixed Wing Multi-Engine",
  "engine_type": "Turbo-fan",
  "engine_count": 0,
  "year_manufactured": 2013,
  "registrant_name": "DAVID GEFFEN CO",
  "registrant_type": "Corporation",
  "registrant_address": "12011 SAN VICENTE BLVD STE 606",
  "registrant_city": "LOS ANGELES",
  "registrant_state": "CALIFORNIA",
  "registrant_zip": "90049-4948",
  "registrant_country": "UNITED STATES",
  "certificate_issue_date": "07/01/2014",
  "cert_expiration_date": "07/31/2027",
  "registration_status": "Valid",
  "airworthiness_class": "Standard",
  "airworthiness_category": "Transport",
  "airworthiness_date": "09/19/2013",
  "mode_s_code_oct": "50362412",
  "mode_s_code_hex": "A1E50A",
  "dealer_flag": false,
  "fractional_ownership_flag": false,
  "is_corporate_jet": true,
  "is_warbird_or_vintage": false,
  "source_query": "GULFSTREAM / G650",
  "source_url": "https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=N221DG",
  "scraped_at": "2026-04-23T08:33:44.919Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
n_number	string	FAA tail number (N-number) — the primary identifier for any airplane tail number lookup
serial_number	string	Airframe serial number
manufacturer	string	Manufacturer name as published by the FAA
model	string	Model name. Detail pages may include the type certificate designation in parens (e.g., GVI (G650))
aircraft_type	string	Fixed Wing Single-Engine, Fixed Wing Multi-Engine, Rotorcraft, etc.
engine_type	string	Reciprocating, Turbo-jet, Turbo-fan, Turbo-prop, Electric, etc.
engine_count	number	Number of engines when available, 0 otherwise
year_manufactured	number	Manufacture year, 0 when unknown
registrant_name	string	Registered owner name
registrant_type	string	Individual, Corporation, Partnership, LLC, Government, etc.
registrant_address	string	Owner street address (concatenated when multi-line)
registrant_city	string	Owner city
registrant_state	string	Owner state (full name from detail pages, two-letter from list pages)
registrant_zip	string	Owner ZIP
registrant_country	string	Owner country, usually UNITED STATES
certificate_issue_date	string	Current certificate issue date (MM/DD/YYYY)
cert_expiration_date	string	Certificate expiration date
registration_status	string	Valid, Expired, Reserved, Pending, etc.
airworthiness_class	string	Standard, Experimental, Restricted, etc.
airworthiness_category	string	Transport, Normal, Utility, etc.
airworthiness_date	string	Last airworthiness certificate date
mode_s_code_oct	string	Mode S transponder code in octal
mode_s_code_hex	string	Mode S transponder code in hex — used for ADS-B correlation
dealer_flag	boolean	true if dealer-registered
fractional_ownership_flag	boolean	true for NetJets / Flexjet-class fractional registrations
is_corporate_jet	boolean	Derived — matches known jet tail number patterns (Gulfstream, Bombardier Global, Dassault Falcon, Embraer Legacy, Cessna Citation, Hawker)
is_warbird_or_vintage	boolean	Derived — year_manufactured ≤ 1955 or manufacturer pattern match
source_query	string	Query label that produced the record (e.g., GULFSTREAM / G650)
source_url	string	FAA registry detail URL for the record
scraped_at	string	ISO timestamp of extraction

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FAQ

How do I scrape the FAA aircraft registry?

FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper runs the web forms at registry.faa.gov the same way a browser does, then returns one row per aircraft. You pick a mode, supply inputs, and the scraper handles pagination, detail fetches, and rate-limit handling.

Can I look up a single tail number?

FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper supports airplane tail number lookup — set mode to by_n_number and pass nNumbers: ["N12345"]. The output is the full detail row, including Mode S hex.

How do I find all aircraft owned by a company?

FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper has a by_owner_name mode that searches the FAA's Name inquiry. It's a fuzzy / prefix match, so NETJETS returns both NETJETS SALES INC and NETJETS AVIATION INC. Pair it with excludeCommercialAirlines: true if you're filtering for HNW tail numbers.

Does this scraper return Mode S hex for ADS-B tracking?

FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper returns mode_s_code_hex on every detail row — that's the transponder code services like ADS-B Exchange, FlightAware, and OpenSky use to identify aircraft in live flight feeds. The base-8 octal code is also included if you need it.

How much does FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper cost to run?

FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper is priced pay-per-event: $0.10 per run start and $0.01 per record. A 100-record pull costs $1.10. The whole active US registry (290K records) is theoretically $2,900 plus compute, though the actor caps runs well before that — point it at a focused query and you'll pay for what you use.

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Need More Features?

Need a full-registry CSV export, a different state filter, or a custom corporate-jet list? File an issue or get in touch.

Why Use FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper?

• Affordable — $0.01 per record, so a targeted sweep of Gulfstream G650 owners runs well under a dollar
• Complete — 30+ fields per aircraft including the Mode S hex that most scrapers skip, because parsing the FAA detail page is a mild pain
• Focused — four purpose-built modes instead of one dump-everything switch, which saves you from paying for records you didn't want