# InFlightInfo

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/inflightinfo/61249>\
**Category:** AeroAPI\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/inflightinfo/61249 "2020-02-20T20:18:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![koombea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/koombea/32/58966_2.png) [@koombea](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/koombea)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/inflightinfo/61249/1 "2020-02-20T20:18:02Z")

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Hello,

Currently I am trying to find the information of an airplane with tail number: N785AV

The URL for the request is the following: [http://flightxml.flightaware.com:80/json/FlightXML2/InFlightInfo?ident=N785AV](http://flightxml.flightaware.com:80/json/FlightXML2/InFlightInfo?ident=N785AV)

I get the following response:  
{“InFlightInfoResult”=\>  
{“faFlightID”=\>“”,  
“ident”=\>“N785AV”,  
“prefix”=\>“”,  
“type”=\>“”,  
“suffix”=\>“”,  
“origin”=\>“”,  
“destination”=\>“”,  
“timeout”=\>“”,  
“timestamp”=\>0,  
“departureTime”=\>0,  
“firstPositionTime”=\>0,  
“arrivalTime”=\>0,  
“longitude”=\>0,  
“latitude”=\>0,  
“lowLongitude”=\>0,  
“lowLatitude”=\>0,  
“highLongitude”=\>0,  
“highLatitude”=\>0,  
“groundspeed”=\>0,  
“altitude”=\>0,  
“heading”=\>0,  
“altitudeStatus”=\>“”,  
“updateType”=\>“”,  
“altitudeChange”=\>“”,  
“waypoints”=\>“”}}

The documentation specifically says this endpoint supports tail number starting with ‘N’. May we get more information on how to use this endpoint properly?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![dogrock](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/dogrock/32/118974_2.png) [@dogrock](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/dogrock)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/inflightinfo/61249/3 "2020-02-20T20:42:55Z")

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If an aircraft is operating under an identifier that is different from its tail number then that identifier will need to be used instead for InFlightInfo. For the current example that would be `AVA19`.

If you wish to search by ident or tail in a single call this is handled in SearchBirdseyeInFlight:  
`https://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML2/SearchBirdseyeInFlight?query={ident_or_reg N785AV}`