Airworthiness Directive Monitor: FAA AD Alerts by Aircraft

Watch FAA Airworthiness Directives for your fleet — and get alerted only when a NEW one lands. An Airworthiness Directive (AD) is a legally mandatory FAA order to correct an unsafe condition on an aircraft, engine or part — the aviation equivalent of a recall, and missing one that applies to your fleet means grounded aircraft and liability. This monitor pulls recent FAA ADs (final + proposed) from the keyless Federal Register, matches them to your aircraft/manufacturer watch terms, and — because it remembers the previous run — surfaces just the new ones. Schedule it and point webhookUrl at Slack/email (via Make/Zapier) to turn it into a standing AD alarm. Works as a one-shot lookup too.

📋 Factual public records. Every row is an official Federal Register FAA document, reported verbatim (title, AD number, stage, effective date, docket, link). No scoring, no editorializing.

⚡ What makes it a monitor, not just a lookup

Most sources re-list every AD each time. This one diffs against the previous run: the first run quietly sets a baseline (no spam from history), and every run after surfaces — and webhooks — only ADs that are new since last time. Set a schedule once; hear about it only when it matters.

📋 What each directive contains

Field	Meaning
adNumber	The AD number (e.g. AD 2026-20-10); blank for proposed rules not yet numbered
stage	Final rule (mandatory) or Proposed rule (comment period)
subject	Manufacturer / model the AD applies to (e.g. "The Boeing Company Airplanes")
effectiveOn	Date the AD takes effect
publicationDate / docketNumber / htmlUrl	When published, the FAA docket, and the full text
matchedTerms / isNew	Which of your watch terms matched, and whether it's new since last run

📥 Input

{
  "watchTerms": ["Boeing 737", "Airbus A320", "Rolls-Royce"],
  "ruleStages": ["final", "proposed"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hook.make.com/..."
}

Leave watchTerms empty to track all FAA ADs. ruleStages picks final (mandatory, in force) and/or proposed (heads-up). sinceDays sets the look-back (default 120).

📤 Example output (real run, trimmed — a watch on "Boeing")

{
  "isNew": true,
  "stage": "Final rule (mandatory)",
  "adNumber": "AD 2026-20-10",
  "subject": "The Boeing Company Airplanes",
  "effectiveOn": "2026-11-12",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-07",
  "matchedTerms": ["Boeing"],
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/..."
}

The first run instead writes a baseline marker ("baseline": true), so no false "new" alerts fire for pre-existing ADs.

💰 Pricing (pay-per-event)

• Watch run — $0.01 per run (the fetch + diff).
• New directive alert — $0.02 per newly-detected AD. Quiet runs cost only the base.

💡 Use cases

• Airlines / operators / flight departments: a standing alarm for ADs on the types you fly.
• MRO / maintenance / CAMO: catch new mandatory fixes for your customers' fleets the day they publish.
• Lessors / parts suppliers / insurers / aviation lawyers: track ADs by manufacturer or model.
• Agents: callable as an MCP tool — give it aircraft terms, get back only what's new.

🔑 Keyless & agent-callable

No API keys, no accounts, no paid child Actors — just the public Federal Register (FAA) data.

🚀 Ready-made tasks (one click)

• Boeing 737 Airworthiness Directives (FAA AD Alerts)
• Airbus A320 Family Airworthiness Directives Monitor
• Aircraft Engine ADs - CFM, Pratt & Whitney, GE

🤖 For AI agents (MCP)

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,centorprat/airworthiness-directive-monitor

Loads as centorprat--airworthiness-directive-monitor. Claude Code:

claude mcp add apify -- npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server --actors centorprat/airworthiness-directive-monitor