# FAA Aircraft Registration & Ownership Change Leads (`scrapesignal_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed`) Actor

Turn the FAA releasable aircraft files into recent registration updates, ownership records, document filings, and optional deregistrations.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapesignal\_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [ScrapeSignal Labs](https://apify.com/scrapesignal_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 aircraft changes

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## FAA Aircraft Registration & Ownership Change Leads

Turn the FAA’s large releasable aircraft files into a recent, filterable change feed. This Actor downloads the current official archive, joins aircraft reference data to registration records, and returns registration or ownership updates, recorded document filings, and optional deregistrations within your chosen date window.

Results can be filtered by state, manufacturer, model, registrant, N-number, serial number, city, and document type. Each record includes a direct FAA aircraft inquiry link and the official source archive.

### Built for

- aircraft sales, brokerage, finance, insurance, maintenance, avionics, and parts teams
- FBOs, airports, fleet services, hangar providers, and aviation market researchers
- title, lien, transaction, and competitive-intelligence workflows
- scheduled territory alerts, CRM enrichment, and aviation data products

### Event types

- **Registration / ownership update:** recent FAA last-action or certificate-issue activity
- **Document filing:** recently processed aircraft collateral document-index records
- **Deregistration:** recently canceled registrations; optional because the source file is much larger and runs take longer

### Example input

```json
{
  "eventTypes": ["registration-update", "document-filing"],
  "daysBack": 14,
  "states": ["FL", "TX"],
  "manufacturers": ["Gulfstream", "Cessna"],
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

### Output highlights

Event type and date, N-number, registrant name and releasable address, manufacturer and model, serial number, year manufactured, certificate dates, status, expiration, aircraft and engine codes, seats and engine count, document ID/type/party when applicable, direct FAA inquiry link, and source archive.

### Source, privacy, and caveats

The Actor uses the [FAA Releasable Aircraft Database download](https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/releasable_aircraft_download). The archive already reflects FAA privacy-withholding rules; this Actor does not attempt to reconstruct withheld information. Use the data for legitimate professional purposes and honor applicable privacy, marketing, and aviation rules.

FAA “last action” does not always mean a sale. It can represent a registration, renewal, address update, correction, administrative action, or another record change. A document-index entry is not by itself a legal conclusion about current title or lien priority. Verify transactions with the FAA record, aircraft documents, qualified title professionals, and counsel.

The official ZIP is large, so this Actor uses more memory and bandwidth than a small API scraper. For efficient monitoring, keep the date window and result cap focused; select deregistrations only when needed.

# Actor input Schema

## `eventTypes` (type: `array`):

Choose registration updates, document filings, and optional deregistrations.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Include FAA record events within this many days.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides Days back.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Two-letter state codes. Empty means nationwide.

## `manufacturers` (type: `array`):

Partial matches such as Cessna, Gulfstream, Boeing.

## `models` (type: `array`):

Partial model matches.

## `ownerQuery` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive search across key aircraft and registrant fields.

## `documentTypes` (type: `array`):

Partial matches applied to document-filing results.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after saving this many most recent matching events.

## `archiveUrl` (type: `string`):

Advanced: override the official releasable-aircraft ZIP.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "eventTypes": [
    "registration-update",
    "document-filing"
  ],
  "daysBack": 30,
  "startDate": "",
  "endDate": "",
  "states": [],
  "manufacturers": [],
  "models": [],
  "ownerQuery": "",
  "documentTypes": [],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "archiveUrl": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapesignal_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapesignal_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call scrapesignal_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapesignal_labs/faa-aircraft-registration-change-feed"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HH8hqniD1U99gAw4c/builds/p4KfgXPnd7PE7zfnh/openapi.json