Ask a Librarian & FAQs

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

• Airline Certificate Information database: The Aircraft Registration Inquiry database provides aircraft registration information through fourteen different queries These queries provide information about current registered owners, documents filed, aircraft dealers, and more. We've included a definitions page to help visitors who may be unfamiliar with some of the aircraft registration terminology.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

TranStats: Click on "Aviation," then "Air Carrier Financial Reports: Schedule B-43 Inventory" (Click "Download") 

• Note most carriers request confidentiality for their airframe cost data)

• Includes year aircraft began service

• Serial number

• Tail number

• Owned or leased

• Operating status

• Number of seats

• Make/model

• Capacity

• Acquisition date