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Casa Aviation Aircraft Register Examples
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Casa Aviation Aircraft Register Examples is an example object payload from Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
x-apievangelistrecordsx-apievangelist-reading-notes
Example Payload
{
"x-apievangelist": {
"generated": "2026-07-28",
"method": "searched",
"source": "https://services.casa.gov.au/CSV/acrftreg.csv",
"retrieved": "2026-07-28",
"upstream_last_modified": "Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:16:25 GMT",
"upstream_etag": "\"6756290151edd1:0\"",
"upstream_bytes": 6995128,
"record_count_in_file": 16660,
"column_count": 44,
"schema": "json-schema/casa-aviation-aircraft-register-row.schema.json",
"schema_validation": "Both records below were validated on 2026-07-28 against that schema and passed. Validate the members of records[], not this wrapper.",
"note": "CASA publishes no examples for the register file. The two rows below are real rows read from the live acrftreg.csv on 2026-07-28 and rendered as JSON objects keyed by the CSV column names exactly as CASA writes them. Field values are verbatim with ONE exception, recorded below.",
"privacy_redaction": "The register carries the name and full postal address of every registration holder and registered operator, and roughly a third of those parties are private individuals. Only records held by companies were selected for these examples, and the street-address lines (regholdadd1, regholdadd2, regopadd1, regopadd2) have been replaced with the literal string [REDACTED]. Suburb, state, postcode and country are left intact because they are the fields an integrator actually needs to see the shape of. Nothing else was altered. Read the live file if you need the full record.",
"csv_dialect": {
"encoding": "UTF-8 with byte-order mark - open with encoding utf-8-sig or the first column parses as \"\\ufeffMark\", not \"Mark\"",
"delimiter": ",",
"header_row": true,
"date_format": "DD/MM/YYYY (Australian order)"
}
},
"records": [
{
"Mark": "87X",
"Manu": "EMBRAER EXECUTIVE AIRCRAFT, INC.",
"Type": "",
"Model": "EMB-505",
"Serial": "50500778",
"MTOW": "8357.7",
"engnum": "2",
"Engmanu": "PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT",
"Engtype": "Turbofan",
"Engmodel": "PW535E",
"Fueltype": "Kerosene",
"regType": "Full Registration",
"regholdname": "SPECIAL MINING SERVICES PTY LTD",
"regholdadd1": "[REDACTED]",
"regholdadd2": "[REDACTED]",
"regholdSuburb": "GLENORIE",
"regholdState": "NSW",
"regholdPostcode": "2157",
"regholdCountry": "Australia",
"regholdCommdate": "07/02/2024",
"regopName": "FLIGHT OPTIONS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD",
"regopadd1": "[REDACTED]",
"regopadd2": "[REDACTED]",
"regopSuburb": "MUDJIMBA",
"regopState": "QLD",
"regopPostcode": "4564",
"regopCountry": "Australia",
"regopCommdate": "07/02/2024",
"Datefirstreg": "07/02/2024",
"gear": "",
"Airframe": "Power Driven Aeroplane",
"CoAcata": "Active (Commuter)",
"CoAcatb": "",
"CoAcatc": "",
"Propmanu": "AIRCRAFT NOT FITTED WITH PROPELLER",
"Propmodel": "NOT APPLICABLE",
"Typecert": "A60CE",
"Countrymanu": "United States of America",
"Yearmanu": "2024",
"Regexpirydate": "",
"suspendstatus": "",
"suspenddate": "",
"ICAOtypedesig": "E55P",
"IDERA_Authorised_Party": ""
},
{
"Mark": "22B",
"Manu": "ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO",
"Type": "",
"Model": "R22 BETA",
"Serial": "3157",
"MTOW": "622",
"engnum": "1",
"Engmanu": "LYCOMING",
"Engtype": "Piston",
"Engmodel": "O-360-J2A",
"Fueltype": "Gasoline",
"regType": "Full Registration",
"regholdname": "SOUTH TIPPERARY INVESTMENTS PTY. LTD.",
"regholdadd1": "[REDACTED]",
"regholdadd2": "[REDACTED]",
"regholdSuburb": "GUNNEDAH",
"regholdState": "NSW",
"regholdPostcode": "2380",
"regholdCountry": "Australia",
"regholdCommdate": "30/04/2026",
"regopName": "SOUTH TIPPERARY INVESTMENTS PTY. LTD.",
"regopadd1": "[REDACTED]",
"regopadd2": "[REDACTED]",
"regopSuburb": "GUNNEDAH",
"regopState": "NSW",
"regopPostcode": "2380",
"regopCountry": "Australia",
"regopCommdate": "30/04/2026",
"Datefirstreg": "30/04/2026",
"gear": "",
"Airframe": "Rotorcraft",
"CoAcata": "",
"CoAcatb": "",
"CoAcatc": "",
"Propmanu": "AIRCRAFT NOT FITTED WITH PROPELLER",
"Propmodel": "NOT APPLICABLE",
"Typecert": "H10WE",
"Countrymanu": "United States of America",
"Yearmanu": "2000",
"Regexpirydate": "",
"suspendstatus": "",
"suspenddate": "",
"ICAOtypedesig": "R22",
"IDERA_Authorised_Party": ""
}
],
"x-apievangelist-reading-notes": [
"The Mark column carries the registration mark WITHOUT the VH- nationality prefix: \"87X\" is VH-87X.",
"gear and CoAcatc are empty in all 16,660 rows of the 2026-07-28 file - they are dead columns, not sparse ones. See vocabulary/casa-aviation-vocabulary.yml.",
"Aircraft with no engine or no propeller carry the sentinel strings AIRCRAFT NOT FITTED WITH ENGINE / AIRCRAFT NOT FITTED WITH PROPELLER and NOT APPLICABLE rather than empty values.",
"MTOW is written as a decimal string in kilograms (8357.7), not an integer.",
"ICAOtypedesig is the only field that joins cleanly to non-Australian datasets."
]
}