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Aircraft registry
Tail-number lookup
Paste an N-number (United States), C-FXXX or C-GXXX (Canada), or XA-XXX / XB-XXX (Mexico) and get the aircraft's owner, type, manufacture year, and registration status. Sourced from the FAA Aircraft Registry, Transport Canada CCAR, and AFAC RANT.
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How civil aircraft registries work
Every civil aircraft in the United States, Canada, and Mexico carries a tail number issued by its national civil aviation authority — an N-number from the FAA, a C-prefix mark from Transport Canada, or an XA / XB prefix from AFAC. The mark is painted on the aircraft and registered against its owner, model, manufacture year, and status in a public database that each authority publishes on a regular cadence.
This page reads those public registries and surfaces the answer for one tail number at a time. The matching aircraft profile shows owner, manufacturer, model, year, current registration status, and a short note where there's context worth surfacing — a famous incident, a livery, a purpose-built modification.
Currently includes 5 US · 4 Canada · 3 Mexico. The full FAA, Transport Canada, and AFAC bulk imports (~330 000 aircraft total) are the next pass.
Looking up —…
Doesn't look like a North American tail number
The registries on this page cover the United States (N-prefix), Canada (C-F or C-G prefix), and Mexico (XA or XB prefix). The input doesn't match any of those patterns.
Aircraft registered outside the US, Canada, or Mexico are not searchable here.
No aircraft on file with registration
The page currently includes a hand-curated set of representative aircraft drawn from the FAA, Transport Canada, and AFAC public registries. The full civil registries — ~290 000 US aircraft, ~37 000 Canadian aircraft, ~4 000 Mexican aircraft — will land in a subsequent pass.
If you know the aircraft is in a North American civil registry, the authoritative public lookup is at FAA Aircraft Inquiry (US), Transport Canada CCAR (Canada), or AFAC (Mexico).
About this lookup
Civil aircraft registry data is published in bulk by each country's civil aviation authority. The FAA Aircraft Registry publishes the United States database daily as a downloadable ZIP under FAA's public-domain release terms. The Transport Canada Civil Aircraft Register publishes the Canadian database under the Open Government Licence — Canada. AFAC publishes the Registro Aeronáutico Nacional (RANT) periodically as PDF and Excel exports under Mexican federal-record terms.
v1 of this page ships a hand-curated set of representative aircraft drawn from those three primary sources, pending the live bulk-import pipeline. The records are re-verified against the public registries on a recurring cadence; per-aircraft permalinks, Mode S 24-bit address decoding, and incident-history cross-links are deferred to subsequent passes.
Military, state, drone, and uncrewed aircraft are out of scope — the civil registries above don't cover them, and dedicated military serial-number lookups belong on a separate page.