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Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server

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Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. 70 installs a week from npm. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 25 Aug 2026.

Offline, keyless lookup of the US civil aircraft registry — decode N-numbers, search records.

Installs per day peak 165 · avg 16 · +42% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 0%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
359 ms
Response time
average over 24h
70
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 11

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Aug 5 tool descriptions were rewritten faa_get_aircraft_type, faa_get_registration_status, faa_lookup_registration and 2 more
25 Aug 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for faa_get_aircraft_type, faa_get_registration_status, faa_lookup_registration and 2 more
25 Aug a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server --transport http https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server]
url = "https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: FAA_REDACT_OWNER_PII (Redact owner name/address and disable owner-name search. Redacted by default; set to false only on trusted local installs. Unset/empty/malformed resolves to redacted.), FAA_MIRROR_PATH (Filesystem path to the SQLite registry index file.), FAA_DATABASE_URL (Source URL for the FAA Releasable Aircraft Database ZIP (used by mirror:init/refresh only).), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server.), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on.), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server.), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

faa
faa_get_aircraft_type
Decode a 7-character FAA manufacturer/model/series code to aircraft specifications — manufacturer, model, aircraft category, aircraft type, engine type, number of engines, number of seats, weight class, cruise speed, and type-certificate data sheet/holder. Use faa_search_aircraft_types first to discover a code by manufacturer or model name.
faa_get_registration_status
Resolve whether a US civil aircraft N-number is active, deregistered, reserved, or unknown, including the available registration and airworthiness status. Use this rather than faa_lookup_registration when a number may be inactive. A number that was never issued returns recordType "unknown" — a valid, informative answer, not an error. Accepts "N12345" or "12345".
faa_lookup_registration
Decode one US civil aircraft N-number to its full registration record — aircraft make/model, engine, year manufactured, airworthiness, registration status, Mode S (ICAO 24-bit) code, and registered owner (when owner-PII redaction is off). Accepts "N12345" or "12345" (the leading N is optional). Returns ownerRedacted: true when owner details were withheld. A number that is known but inactive (deregistered or reserved) is not found here — use faa_get_registration_status for its current state.
faa_search_aircraft_types
Search FAA aircraft types by manufacturer/model name, aircraft type code, or category code to discover 7-character manufacturer/model/series codes and browse specifications. Use this before faa_get_aircraft_type to find a code by name. At least one filter is required. Every response reports totalCount (all matches, not just this page); when more remain, it returns nextOffset — pass it back as offset to page forward.
faa_search_registrations
Search active US civil aircraft registrations by owner name, make/model, state, aircraft type, or Mode S (hex) code. Returns decoded summaries with N-numbers to drill into via faa_lookup_registration. At least one filter is required. Owner-name search is unavailable when this deployment redacts owner PII — search by make/model, state, aircraft type, or Mode S code instead. Every response reports totalCount (all matches, not just this page); when more remain, it returns nextOffset — pass it back as offset to page forward.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://faa-aircraft-registry.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 406 ms 12 min ago

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Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: faa_get_aircraft_type, faa_get_registration_status, faa_lookup_registration, faa_search_aircraft_types, faa_search_registrations. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 359 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server need an API key?
No. Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 359 ms on average, which is faster than 43% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/faa-aircraft-registry-mcp-server was installed 70 times in the last week. Week over week that is +42%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Faa Aircraft Registry MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 2 stars on GitHub and 6 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.