# Federal Aviation Administration

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/faa/  
**Website:** https://www.faa.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 14

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the United States civil aviation authority, an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. It regulates and certificates aircraft, airmen, airports and air carriers, operates the National Airspace System and its air traffic control, and issues the aeronautical information the entire U.S. travel and aviation chain runs on — NOTAMs, TFRs, charts, the 28-day NASR subscription, aircraft registration and airport data. It sits upstream of commercial travel distribution rather than inside it — the FAA sells no inventory and is not a GDS, NDC or channel participant, but every airline, GDS, OTA, flight-planning app and drone service supplier in the United States consumes FAA data as a source of truth. Its API posture is genuinely mixed and honest reporting requires saying so. The Airport Status Web Service and the Aeronautic Product Release API are published under a Creative Commons Zero licence, answer unauthenticated over HTTPS, and ship real OpenAPI 3.0.1 documents through a public Gravitee developer portal at api.faa.gov. Alongside them the FAA runs a CKAN 2.11.4 catalog and two ArcGIS Open Data hubs with DCAT-US 1.1 feeds and bulk CSV/GeoJSON/KML export. But the NOTAM API, the Air Carrier Pilot Records Database API and SWIM are gated — client_id/client_secret headers, operator eligibility restricted by regulation, or an executed SWIM agreement — and LAANC drone authorization is reachable only through FAA-approved UAS Service Suppliers, never directly.

## Kin Score — 55.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 53.4 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 60.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 62.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 65.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 57.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 49.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (14)

- **FAA Aeronautic Product Release API (APRA)** — Chart publication metadata and download API from FAA Aeronautical Information Services. Thirty-four operations across VFR sectionals, terminal area charts, IFR enroute and ocean...
- **FAA Air Carrier PRD API** — Machine interface for submitting and searching pilot records in the FAA Pilot Records Database, the reporting obligation created for air carriers by 14 CFR Part 111. Requires cl...
- **FAA Safety Assurance System (SAS) API** — Single-operation API for submitting passenger discrepancy reports into the FAA Safety Assurance System. The harvested OpenAPI declares apiKey and appId header security schemes a...
- **FAA NOTAM API** — Notices to Air Missions retrieval API. Probe-confirmed live but gated — an unauthenticated GET returned HTTP 401 with the body {"message":"Unauthorized", "http_status_code":401}...
- **FAA NOTAM Management Service (NMS) API** — The distribution interface of the FAA's new NOTAM Management Service, the vendor-provided replacement for the legacy United States NOTAM System (USNS) and Federal NOTAM System (...
- **FAA NMS North Atlantic Track NOTAM Feed** — Unauthenticated JSON feed of North Atlantic Track NOTAMs published by the FAA NOTAM Management Service. Each record carries accountability and origin ids, the formatted NOTAM nu...
- **FAA NMS System Metrics Feed** — Unauthenticated JSON feed backing the NOTAM Management Service system metrics dashboard — cumulative NOTAMs processed, NMS API onboarded users, NMS API volume of data pulled per...
- **FAA DMS Lookup API** — Retrieves designee information from the FAA Data Management System using either a Designee Number or an ODA Key ID. Listed in the api.faa.gov portal under the "Public" category,...
- **FAA Data Catalog API (CKAN)** — The FAA's public data clearinghouse at catalog.data.faa.gov runs CKAN 2.11.4 and exposes the standard CKAN Action API. Verified 2026-07-28 — status_show returned site_title "Fed...
- **FAA Aeronautical Information Services Open Data** — ArcGIS Open Data hub published by "Federal Aviation Administration - AIS" carrying 73 datasets — class airspace, frequencies, runways, navaids, obstacles, VFR and IFR chart tile...
- **FAA UAS Data Delivery System Open Data** — ArcGIS Open Data hub for unmanned aircraft data — UAS Facility Maps (the LAANC altitude grid), national security UAS flight restrictions, part-time restrictions, FAA-Recognized ...
- **FAA NAS Status Airport Status Information Feed** — Unauthenticated XML feed of national airspace system status — ground stop programs, ground delay programs, airport closures and arrival/departure delays — as consumed by nasstat...
- **FAA Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) List API** — Unauthenticated JSON list of active Temporary Flight Restrictions, each carrying a NOTAM id, TFR type, ARTCC facility identifier, state and effective description. Verified live ...
- **Federal Aviation Administration Airport Status Web Service** — Federal Aviation Administration Airport Status Web Service from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 path(s) described in OpenAPI.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Candidate MCP tool manifest derived from the FAA CC0 OpenAPIs — not published by the FAA**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Faa Agentic Access** — 45 operations · 9 acting

## Security (3)

- **Faa Authentication** — none/apiKey · 5 schemes
- **Faa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Faa Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Faa Plans**

## Tags

Travel, United States, Aviation, Airports, Government, Regulator, Open Data, Airspace, Drones, Aeronautical Information

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/faa/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.