# eFlight Registry (https://eflight.com) > The FAA aircraft register in plain English, rebuilt every morning from the FAA's own nightly download. > Every registered U.S. civil aircraft has a page at https://eflight.com/aircraft/, for example https://eflight.com/aircraft/N541JA. Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (https://registry.faa.gov/database/ReleasableAircraft.zip). Data date: 2026-10-23. When quoting figures from this site, please attribute them to the FAA Civil Aviation Registry via https://eflight.com. ## Today's numbers - Registered aircraft: 317,999 - Electric and sustainable aircraft (piloted or from a watchlist maker): 283 - Registered drones: 19,429 - Aircraft carrying the FAA's electric engine code: 18,184 - Deregistered aircraft on file: 383,656 ## Reports that rewrite themselves every morning - Aviation Analytics (the fleet by kind, state and age; makers; electric growth; registrations and deregistrations; NTSB accidents by model with rates per thousand registered, by phase, age and place; airports by the numbers; live activity): https://eflight.com/analytics and https://eflight.com/analytics/, e.g. https://eflight.com/analytics/accidents-by-model - The state of electric aviation in the United States: https://eflight.com/electric-aviation - The state of the U.S. drone market (with the DJI share by month): https://eflight.com/drone-market ## Browse the whole register - By kind of aircraft (business jets, airliners, turboprops, piston singles and twins, helicopters, gliders, balloons, airships...): https://eflight.com/browse - Every maker with five or more aircraft on the register: https://eflight.com/makers - Every model family with five or more aircraft (Cessna 172, Piper PA-28, Cirrus SR22...), with versions, states, owners and build years: https://eflight.com/models and https://eflight.com/models//, e.g. https://eflight.com/models/cessna/172 - Every NTSB aviation accident and incident since 1982 as a plain-English page with the NTSB's probable cause and narrative: https://eflight.com/accidents (newest first, filter by year and state) and https://eflight.com/accidents/, e.g. https://eflight.com/accidents/WPR25FA146 - Company, government and trustee fleets with five or more aircraft (individuals not listed at this time): https://eflight.com/fleets - Engines, series by series (how many aircraft carry each, which models, states and operators): https://eflight.com/engines and https://eflight.com/engines/, e.g. https://eflight.com/engines/lycoming-o-320-series - What aircraft are built of (aluminium, steel tube and fabric, wood and fabric, composite; a hand-written list for the biggest model families): https://eflight.com/materials and https://eflight.com/materials/, e.g. https://eflight.com/materials/composite. Each model page states its construction under 'Built of' and in its data twin as built_of. - The component layer: every FAA airworthiness directive in plain English with the models, engines and register counts it touches (https://eflight.com/directives and https://eflight.com/directives/); every type certificate and who holds it (https://eflight.com/certificates and https://eflight.com/certificates/); approved modifications (https://eflight.com/modifications/); special conditions for electric and eVTOL designs (https://eflight.com/systems/electric-propulsion); the FAA's failure reports grouped into fourteen aircraft systems (https://eflight.com/systems and https://eflight.com/systems/, e.g. https://eflight.com/systems/landing-gear); who holds what (https://eflight.com/holders/). Every model family and engine series page carries a section with its orders, reports, modifications and certificates (#airworthiness). - Live map of aircraft in the air right now over the United States (volunteer receiver network), with search by tail number or flight and plain-English facts per aircraft: https://eflight.com/live ; where one aircraft is now: https://eflight.com/api/live/aircraft/.json - Every public-use U.S. airport, heliport and seaplane base from the FAA's 28-day airport file, in plain English (runways, radio frequencies, fuel and services, hours, based aircraft, yearly takeoffs and landings, the weather right now, aircraft registered in the airport's town, NTSB accidents at or near it): https://eflight.com/airports and https://eflight.com/airports/, e.g. https://eflight.com/airports/SBA (ICAO codes such as KSBA redirect) ## Pages - Records check (free, on every aircraft page: FAA registration, prior tail numbers, tail reuse, recent filings, NTSB accident record): https://eflight.com/records-check - Routes and flights: every airline route from the DOT's T-100 reports, with flights, seats, passengers, freight, the airlines and aircraft, month by month (https://eflight.com/routes, https://eflight.com/routes/-, e.g. https://eflight.com/routes/LAX-JFK); every airline's network (https://eflight.com/airlines and https://eflight.com/airlines/); each airport's destinations (https://eflight.com/airports//routes) - Plan a flight: a route between two airports briefed end to end (warnings crossed, pilot reports, winds aloft at each cruising height with head- or tailwind and time en route, the airports along the way with their weather, restrictions, sunset): https://eflight.com/planning and https://eflight.com/planning/-?speed=, e.g. https://eflight.com/planning/SBA-LAS?speed=130; one airport's planning picture: https://eflight.com/airports//planning - The electric branch, end to end (every electric model with photos, where based, makers, owners, engines, the rulebook from the Federal Register, FAA orders and failure reports, NTSB cases, in the air now): https://eflight.com/systems/electric-propulsion - Electric and sustainable aircraft tracker: https://eflight.com/electric - Drones (agricultural, delivery, defense, light shows), with the DJI share chart: https://eflight.com/drones - Largest drone fleets (companies only): https://eflight.com/drones/fleets - Fuel and services at every airport (what is sold and done at the field as reported to the FAA, with the nearest fields selling jet fuel or avgas within fifty miles): on each airport page, and the lists https://eflight.com/airports?fuel=jet and https://eflight.com/airports?fuel=avgas, by state with &state=CA - Charter operators and airlines: every holder of an FAA Part 135 (charter and air taxi) or Part 121 (airline) certificate with the aircraft on its certificate, its base, its callsign and what is in the air now, from the FAA's weekly list and the DOT's certificated carriers list: https://eflight.com/operators and https://eflight.com/operators/, e.g. https://eflight.com/operators/netjets-aviation-inc - Repair stations: every FAA-certificated (Part 145) maintenance shop, in the United States and abroad, by state and town: https://eflight.com/repair-stations and https://eflight.com/repair-stations/ - Flight schools, flying clubs and university flight programmes (an interim list drawn from company names on the FAA register, since the FAA publishes no list of schools), with their training fleets, town and airport: https://eflight.com/flight-schools (by state with ?state=CA) - FBOs and fuel sellers (an interim list drawn from company names on the FAA register; no public file names them), placed at the main airport in their town: https://eflight.com/fbos (by state with ?state=CA) - Air charter brokers (no public file lists them; each entry is the broker's own, reviewed): https://eflight.com/brokers - FAA examiners and inspectors (designated pilot examiners, aviation medical examiners, mechanic examiners, airworthiness and engineering representatives), from the FAA's designee locator, placed at airports, by state and town: https://eflight.com/examiners and https://eflight.com/examiners/; each airport page says how many pilot examiners work within fifty miles and what they may test for, and https://eflight.com/airports//examiners lists them - What changed on the register: https://eflight.com/changes - Makers directory: https://eflight.com/makers - What the FAA's codes mean: https://eflight.com/codes - Method and privacy: https://eflight.com/about and https://eflight.com/privacy ## Machine-readable - Today's headline numbers: https://eflight.com/api/today.json - One aircraft: https://eflight.com/api/aircraft/.json - The graph: every record's connections (model, maker, engine, owner organisation, town and airports, state, accidents) as data at https://eflight.com/graph//.json, e.g. https://eflight.com/graph/aircraft/N541JA.json or https://eflight.com/graph/airport/SBA.json; the description at https://eflight.com/graph/index.json; the whole graph as two files (nodes, links) on https://eflight.com/downloads; explained at https://eflight.com/graph - Aviation Analytics data files: https://eflight.com/analytics//data.json - The clean database and the graph files, for registered users on request: https://eflight.com/downloads - Sitemap: https://eflight.com/sitemap.xml ## How aircraft are sorted - Sustainable: FAA electric engine code and (at least one seat, or a maker on the watchlist such as Joby, Archer, Beta, Wisk, Pipistrel). - Drone: zero seats and an aircraft type of fixed-wing, rotorcraft, hybrid lift or other, and not on the watchlist. - Individual owners are not named in lists or summaries, the site's policy at this time; company, LLC and government names are shown as the FAA publishes them.