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 Post subject: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrations
PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:01 pm 
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Using the Private Flight Tracker feature it's actually possible to enter a tail number/registration number of most US airliners and find the latest flights. However, I want to do the reverse. i.e. key in the Flight Number and get the tail number/registration. If Flightaware knows both pieces of data why can't I find what I want?

I'm also trying to find out the tail numbers for Allegiant flights into MBS last year. The 'BTS website doesn't seem to list Allegiant flights but these would be on Flightaware somewhere wouldn't they?


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:40 pm 
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The BTS on-time table (where the tail numbers are shown) shows only those airlines that have at least 1% of the nation's airline revenues. Allegiant is shown in the domestic segment table but this doesn't contain tail numbers.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:33 am 
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http://antonakis.co.uk/acars.php?page=request
http://www.acarsd.org/acars_search.html
http://www.acarsd.org/world_ACARS_reports.html
http://www.bts.gov/xml/ontimesummary.../src/index.xml (US only)


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:00 pm 
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Thanks for the information. They're interesting websites but I still didn't manage to find my Allegiant flights. Maybe they're a special case!


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:15 pm 
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NickJackson wrote:
Thanks for the information. They're interesting websites but I still didn't manage to find my Allegiant flights. Maybe they're a special case!

As I stated in my posting, Allegiant won't show in the BTS data because it doesn't meet the criteria of having at least 1% of the nation's airline revenue.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:57 pm 
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Thanks I understood about BTS but was also trying Acarsd and Antonakis. Thinking about it, am I not finding anything because Allegiant don't use ADS-B?


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:17 am 
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Allegiant does not provide us with their tail number data.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:57 am 
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Southwest doesn't as well nor does FedEx..


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 Post subject: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:30 am 
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Why isn't/can't the aircraft registration on the flight page be displayed :?:


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 Post subject: Re: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:12 pm 
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Some but not all airlines carry the registration ex: Southwest Airlines doesn't give us registration numbers only flight numbers from ATC.


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 Post subject: Re: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:34 pm 
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For supported carriers you can enter a tail number to see the flights and on the flight page we have a link to track the inbound flight by the same aircraft.
Some licensing restrictions prevent us from displaying tail numbers on flight pages.


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 Post subject: Re: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:23 pm 
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@ Mark you have pm.


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 Post subject: Registration of a flight?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:04 am 
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Hi,
I was just wondering if I search a flight number for a certain day on FlightAware can I see the registration of the aircraft usedfor that flight?

I am trying to find the registration of a flight I have been on.
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 Post subject: Re: Registration of a flight?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:53 am 
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This is a feature I would love to see as well. I know not all airlines make this information public, but because a large amount of US airlines are able to be tracked by tail number, the information is there... but if you only search by flight number you can't find that information. Any possibility to list the tail for flights that it is available for?

If I search "N73299" for example I'm brought to the page of that aircraft, and all the past flights it's done, and the next few it's scheduled for, so the information is available... would be awesome to just keep the tail on all flight pages where it's possible. 8) It's very neat to track where a specific plane has been over time and where it's going next.


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 Post subject: Re: Registration of a flight?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:31 pm 
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We can't support this for the public tracking airlines, but we do support it for enterprise customers tracking their own fleets. You can look up flights by tail number and find the flight number they operated as.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:48 am 
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Anyone have the new link for this page?

http://www.bts.gov/xml/ontimesummary.../src/index.xml

I'd like to find the UAL and AAL registrations for flights.

Regards.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:44 pm 
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http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectF ... me=On-Time


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 Post subject: Re: Registration of a flight?
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:14 pm 
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Is there any particular reason you cannot link the two? The data is obviously there in the system for certain airlines.


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 Post subject: Re: Registration of a flight?
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:37 pm 
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Please search the forum for existing threads before posting. I've merged the two topics now.


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 Post subject: Re: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:52 pm 
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This is very valuable data as I use it for my commercial flight log and FlightMemory.

If the data is available to FlightAware it should then be made available to users.

If you don't want it public, then at least have people sign in or whatever makes it work..


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 Post subject: Re: Aircraft registration on the flight page
PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:07 pm 
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You can get domestic tail numbers at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectF ... me=On-Time

Please note
- The most recent data is about 3 months old
- Some airlines report the actual N number while others report the fleet number
- You will need to download the data into Notepad++ or Excel 2007 (or later) because the data exceed the 65,000 row limit of earlier versions of Excel

Please send me a PM if you have any questions or ask them here.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:50 pm 
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The OP question is a good one and remains unanswered. Since FlightAware obviously has the tail number info for each flight (in order to allow users to search for a flight by tail number) from certain airlines, why is the tail number not available for flights by those airlines when you search for the flight by other criteria?


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:34 pm 
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Please search the forums before posting, this has been discussed several times.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:04 am 
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As the OP of the thread I can confirm that I did try the search facility first but couldn't find anything directly relevant. Sometimes with forum searches you need to get the right combination of words or the exact terminology correct. As UK resident, but frequent traveller to the USA, maybe I didn't use the correct search words.

I agree with swintner though. Although I'm aware of Acars, BTS etc. the question was actually about Flightaware and why you can find a tail number for a flight but you can search the other way around. Obviously the data is there.

Thanks anyway. I guess the moderator doesn't want to answer this one? It's still a fine website though.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to Use Flightaware to find tail numbers/registrat
PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:53 am 
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NickJackson wrote:
Thanks anyway. I guess the moderator doesn't want to answer this one? It's still a fine website though.


A moderator doesn't need to answer this one. A quick search of the forum unveils that this topic has been discussed many times. FlightAware is not able to provide this data for multiple reasons; a search of the forum might help you discover some of those reasons.

-Mike


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