FAA · Aircraft Registry
FAA Aircraft Registration Lookup
Every civil aircraft in the country is registered to an owner — and the certificate moves the moment a plane changes hands, gets financed, or is taken off the register. This is where you read that ownership record by tail number or owner.
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The signal
What a faa aircraft registration tells you
An aircraft lookup answers the question at the center of every aviation transaction: who owns this airplane, and what exactly is it? Enter a tail number (N-number) or an owner name and you get the make and model, the registrant of record, and the state — the same identity fields dealers, financiers, and service shops confirm before they act.
The N-number is the spine of the aircraft record the way a VIN is for a car. Once you have it, the airframe, the certificate history, and the registrant all key off it. A name search is how you get there when all you have is the company or individual on a bill of sale or a ramp sighting.
The value is in the change, not just the snapshot. A newly issued certificate marks an aircraft that just changed hands or came onto the register — a financing, a purchase, a new operator. A deregistration marks the exit: sold, exported, scrapped, or repossessed. Both are dated events someone wants the day they land on the record.
Why it matters
A fresh registration is a timed opening: a newly acquired aircraft needs insurance, financing, maintenance, and management in the same weeks. A deregistration is the asset-disposal moment dealers, lessors, and asset-based lenders track.
Field guide
How to read the results
Every field below is returned free, in full — no email, no gate. Build a Parse when you want the whole list for a specialty or state, exports, or a live alert the moment a prescriber goes new-to-class.
- Tail # (N-number)
- The aircraft's unique registration mark. It stays with the airframe until reassigned and is the key to every other record about the aircraft.
- Registrant
- The owner of record as filed with the FAA — an individual, a corporation, an LLC, or a trust holding title on someone else's behalf.
- Make / Model
- The manufacturer and model designation — the difference between a light single and a business jet, and the first read on the aircraft's value tier.
- State
- The registrant's address of record. Aviation service and finance territories are regional, so location drives who can serve the account.
- Serial number & year
- The airframe serial and the year of manufacture — how you distinguish two aircraft of the same model and gauge age.
- Aircraft & registrant type
- Fixed-wing vs. rotorcraft, and whether the registrant is an individual, corporation, LLC, or co-owner — the shape of who holds title.
Who uses it
Common use cases
Aircraft dealers & brokers
A new certificate or a deregistration is a transaction in motion — reach owners the moment title moves.
Aviation finance & leasing
New registrations need financing and insurance; deregistrations are the disposal and remarketing signal for lessors and ABL lenders.
MRO & aircraft management
A newly registered aircraft in your region is a maintenance, management, and hangar prospect on day one.
Diligence & asset verification
Confirm who holds title and what the aircraft is before a sale, a loan, or a repossession.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is a tail number (N-number)?
An N-number is the unique registration mark the FAA assigns to a US civil aircraft — the aviation equivalent of a license plate. It stays with the airframe until reassigned, and this tool finds the aircraft and its owner from it or from an owner-name search.
Is this FAA aircraft lookup free?
Yes. Search by tail number or owner name with no login and see the make, model, registrant, and state. A capped set of matches is shown; the serial number, year, aircraft type, and certificate dates are shown free — no email or login.
Can I search by owner instead of tail number?
Yes — the same box accepts an owner or company name and returns every aircraft registered to it. Enter a tail number (starting with a digit, N optional) to look up one aircraft, or a name to see a registrant's fleet.
What does a deregistration mean?
A deregistration is the FAA record that an aircraft was removed from the registry — sold, exported, scrapped, or repossessed. It's the asset-disposal event, distinct from an active registration, and a signal dealers and lessors track.
How current is the registry?
It reads the FAA aircraft registry that ParseData refreshes, so a new certificate or a deregistration appears shortly after the FAA posts it.
How it's sourced
Reads the FAA aircraft registry (the MASTER file enriched with make/model/type) and the deregistration record. Identity and registration fields only — reported exactly as recorded, never a valuation or a judgment about an owner.
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