What you get.

History starts

March 20, 2026

Snapshots

100 captured, 98 usable. 2 truncated files excluded. September 29, 2026

FAA publications held

84 of 141. See every one. October 2, 2026

Aircraft

317,093 records in the registry file. 311,888 valid registrations. September 29, 2026

Entities

5,818 companies. 530 corporate jets tied to tickers. 16,749 ownership transfers. September 29, 2026

Drones under 55 pounds can register in a separate FAA system that is not public, so most are not covered. Methodology · Sources

The FAA

Publishes five days a week, Tuesday to Saturday.

Capture

Every publication, at 5:55 AM Mountain.

Delivery schedule

Weekly, every Monday. Daily delivery coming.

Files

CSV and Parquet, every table in both.

Manifest

Row counts and a SHA-256 checksum for every file.

Delivery

A secure link, or a private storage bucket that works with standard S3 tools.

Revisions

An export is never overwritten. A correction ships as a new, numbered revision.

company_directory

One row per company. Subsidiaries roll up to their ultimate parent.

company_id, display_name, legal_name, public_private, ticker, exchange, cik, lei, sp500, sector_tags, primary_sector, aircraft_today, fleet_by_category, aircraft_held_as_lessor_or_trustee, change_30d, change_90d, change_180d, n_numbers_reserved, first_seen_date, last_activity_faa_date, last_activity_first_seen, as_of

company_fleet

Each company’s aircraft, by category.

company_id, category, aircraft, as_of

corporate_jet_directory

Business jets registered to S&P 500 companies or their subsidiaries.

ticker, company, n_number, make, model, year, manufacturer_held, registrant_as_filed, resolution_method, confidence, evidence_url, first_seen_date, last_change_faa_date, last_change_first_seen, last_change_type, as_of

aircraft_daily

Every organization-registered aircraft on the as-of date. One row per tail number.

snapshot_date, n_number, company_id, company, ticker, is_lessor_or_trustee, captive_finance_or_leasing, registrant_as_filed, type_registrant, category, is_business_jet, make, model, year, status_code, cert_issue_date, state, match_method, confidence

change_events

The change log: dated registry changes where at least one side maps to a company.

event_key, event_type, n_number, faa_event_date, faa_date_field, first_seen_date, company_id, company, ticker, to_is_lessor_or_trustee, from_company_id, from_company, from_holder_type, to_holder_type, name_change_classification

new_entrants

A company’s first aircraft in a sector.

company_id, company, ticker, sector_tag, first_n_number, first_seen_date, first_cert_issue_date, company_aircraft_today

sector_weekly

Weekly aircraft counts, by sector and by category.

week_end, snapshot_used, basis, sector, aircraft

going_dark_counts

Monthly counts of owner records withheld or returned. Cells under 5 are hidden.

month, event, aircraft_category, holder_group, aircraft, aircraft_display, suppressed

going_dark_daily

Withheld owner records per snapshot. Counts only.

snapshot_date, withheld_records, master_records

deregistrations

Cancelled registrations from the FAA deregistered file, cancel dates from 2020.

n_number, make, model, category, year, cancel_date, export_country, status_code, last_registrant, last_holder_type, company_id, ticker, first_seen_date, in_latest_file

exports_by_country

Monthly counts of registrations cancelled for export, by country and category.

month, export_country, aircraft_category, aircraft

transfers

Every change of holder on an airframe, plus exports.

n_number, previous_n_number, from_holder, from_holder_type, from_ticker, to_holder, to_holder_type, to_ticker, category, is_business_jet, make, model, faa_event_date, first_seen_date, evidence_of_ownership_date, transfer_type

deliveries_weekly

New deliveries by week, manufacturer and model family.

week_start, manufacturer, model_family, category, deliveries, business_jets

event_ledger

Dated public events, each with its source.

company, company_id, event, event_type, public_date, source_url, added_by

drone_imports_monthly

U.S. imports of heavy drones by month and country, from the Census Bureau.

month, hts_code, hts_description, country_code, country, general_imports_value_usd, imports_for_consumption_value_usd, general_imports_quantity, imports_for_consumption_quantity, quantity_unit, census_pull

sample_events

One row per registry event in the 90 days before the as-of date. The buyer sample.

event_type, faa_event_date, faa_date_field, first_seen_date, n_number, previous_n_number, make, model, category, is_business_jet, in_corporate_jet_directory, company_id, company, ticker, match_method, confidence, from_holder, from_holder_type, from_ticker, to_holder, to_holder_type, to_ticker, evidence_of_ownership_date, export_country, source_table

Two dates on every change: faa_event_date, the FAA’s own date, and first_seen_date, the first snapshot that showed it. drone_imports_monthly uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.