FlightFinder

FlightFinder Drone Sightings API

The Drone Sightings API from FlightFinder — 2 operation(s) for drone sightings.

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Operations 2

GET /drone-sightings FAA UAS (drone) sighting reports — global aggregates (US-gov public domain) #

GET /drone-sightings/state/{slug} FAA drone sightings for one US state #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FlightFinder Aviation Safety Data Drone Sightings API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: 'Read-only JSON API over FlightFinder''s merged aviation-safety corpus: accident narratives aggregated from 120+ official investigation agencies, deduplicated into one occurrence-level dataset with derived family analytics.'
  termsOfService: https://himaxym.com/developers
  contact:
    url: https://himaxym.com/developers
servers:
- url: https://himaxym.com/api/v1/data
security:
- bearerKey: []
tags:
- name: Drone Sightings
paths:
  /drone-sightings:
    get:
      summary: FAA UAS (drone) sighting reports — global aggregates (US-gov public domain)
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Hub rollups: totals, by-year, top states/cities, and recent report narratives.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                  attribution:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadKey'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Drone Sightings
      operationId: getDroneSightings
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /drone-sightings/state/{slug}:
    get:
      summary: FAA drone sightings for one US state
      parameters:
      - name: slug
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: State slug (e.g. california).
        example: california
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Per-state totals, top cities, and recent report narratives.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                  attribution:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadKey'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Drone Sightings
      operationId: getDroneSightingsStateBySlug
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded — retry after the Retry-After header (seconds).
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Seconds until the quota resets.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    BadKey:
      description: Unknown or revoked API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: No record matches.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              example: rate_limited
            message:
              type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: API key as a bearer token. On the /keys management routes this is the account JWT instead — the API key itself cannot create or revoke keys.