FlightCar was a United States peer-to-peer car-rental marketplace built around airport travel, surfaced into the API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead. Enrichment probing on 2026-07-20 found no operating company behind the name and no API surface of any kind. The domain flightcar.com is registered but publishes no A, AAAA or MX records, resolves to no host, and sits on Njalla privacy nameservers with a SOA serial dated 2026-07-18; the api, developer and docs subdomains do not resolve; there is no GitHub organisation at github.com/flightcar; and no first-party client library exists on npm or PyPI. The Internet Archive shows the consumer site returning 200 through May 2016 and an Internal Server Error by July 2017, with no successful captures in 2017 or 2018. FlightCar is therefore carried in the network as a defunct company retained for portfolio-graph and historical continuity rather than as an active API provider, and should not be re-queued for artifact enrichment.
FlightCar is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Transportation, Travel, and Automotive.
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aid: flightcar
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/flightcar.png
name: FlightCar
description: FlightCar was a United States peer-to-peer car-rental marketplace built around airport travel, surfaced into
the API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead. Enrichment probing on 2026-07-20 found no operating company behind
the name and no API surface of any kind. The domain flightcar.com is registered but publishes no A, AAAA or MX records,
resolves to no host, and sits on Njalla privacy nameservers with a SOA serial dated 2026-07-18; the api, developer and docs
subdomains do not resolve; there is no GitHub organisation at github.com/flightcar; and no first-party client library exists
on npm or PyPI. The Internet Archive shows the consumer site returning 200 through May 2016 and an Internal Server Error
by July 2017, with no successful captures in 2017 or 2018. FlightCar is therefore carried in the network as a defunct company
retained for portfolio-graph and historical continuity rather than as an active API provider, and should not be re-queued
for artifact enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flightcar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence:
probed: '2026-07-20'
domain_registered: true
domain_resolves: false
live_website: false
github_org: false
first_party_packages: false
api_surface: none
last_successful_archive_capture: '2016-05-13'
first_failing_archive_capture: '2017-07-05'
probes_run: DNS (A/AAAA/MX/TXT/DNSKEY/CAA/SOA/NS), whois, HTTPS reachability on the apex plus www/api/developer/docs, github.com/flightcar,
GitHub repository search, npm registry search, PyPI, and Internet Archive CDX. All returned negative or unrelated results.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Transportation
- Travel
- Automotive
- Car Rental
- Marketplace
- Peer-to-Peer
- Mobility
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Transportation
- Travel
- Automotive
- Car Rental
- Marketplace
- Peer To Peer
- Mobility
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/flightcar-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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