What we show, and what we never do

Public record, shown as published. Aircraft registration in the United States is a public record. The FAA publishes owner names and mailing addresses in its daily download, and this site shows exactly those fields, exactly as the FAA publishes them, and nothing more.

Withheld stays withheld. Under 49 U.S.C. § 44114(b), an aircraft owner can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When the FAA does so, the fields arrive blank in the download and are blank here too, the same morning. To request this, contact the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch: faa.gov, Aircraft Registry.

Individuals are not named in lists, the site's policy at this time. On tracker pages, drone fleet tables, maker pages, state pages and search results, aircraft owned by individuals or co-owners show as "Individual owner". Company, LLC and government names are shown because they are business records. The single-aircraft page, reached by typing a tail number, shows the FAA record in full.

People named in FAA approvals. Some FAA approvals are held by a person in their own name rather than by a company. These include type certificates, approved modifications (supplemental type certificates), approved replacement parts (parts manufacturer approvals) and approved equipment (technical standard order authorizations). eFlight may show the holder's name, town and state with those approvals, as the FAA publishes them, because each approval is a public record of the holder's work. A holder who would rather not appear can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Aircraft owners, pilots and other private individuals are not named in lists, the site's policy at this time.

No search by person. You cannot search this site by a person's name. Searches match makers, models and company names only.

Nothing added, nothing combined. We do not add data from other sources, do not combine registrations with any other records, and do not build tools for finding where a person lives.

Visitor counts without cookies. We count page views with Plausible, which sets no cookies, stores no personal data and cannot follow a visitor from one site to another; it tells us which pages are read and which links are used, nothing about who you are.

Advertising. Some pages carry advertisements served by Google, Microsoft and Others: in spaces marked “Advertisement”. Google, Microsoft and the advertising companies they and we work with use cookies to choose the ads, which can include ads based on your earlier visits to this and other websites. You can turn off ads chosen that way in Google’s ad settings, and for other advertising companies at aboutads.info. How Google uses information from the sites that show its ads: policies.google.com. Visitors in Europe, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked before any advertising cookie is set. eFlight does not sell or pass on anything about its visitors.

Crawlers and AI systems. We allow them, because public aviation data is more useful when it is easy to find and cite. They receive the same pages as everyone else, with the same withheld fields.

Corrections. The data is the FAA's. If a record about you is wrong, the correction has to be made with the FAA, and it will appear here the morning after the FAA updates its file. If this site is displaying something the FAA does not publish, write to [email protected] and we will fix it.