# aircrafttype

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/aircrafttype/10413>\
**Category:** AeroAPI\
**Created:** [July 27, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/aircrafttype/10413 "2010-07-27T01:44:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anthonyp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@anthonyp](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/anthonyp)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/aircrafttype/10413/1 "2010-07-27T01:44:21Z")

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Quick question… Any reason why the API doesn’t show the aircraft class?

For example, [DAL61](http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL61) is usually a B763/ **Q** aircraft, but when calling the API, it only returns B763 for the aircrafttype.

I’m sure it’s not a bug, just curious why drop that part off of it’s clearly already in the database? 🙂

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**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/aircrafttype/10413/2 "2010-07-27T02:26:29Z")

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The FlightXML structures don’t include the aircraft prefix or suffix (aka equipment code).