Every aircraft · Every pilot · Every report since 1948
AvDB is the aviation database app for iPhone. Look up any aircraft registration, pilot certificate, NTSB accident report, or airport — the full federal record, behind one search box.
N648CB · SR22
Cirrus Design CORP — 648cb LLC · Columbus OH
KERR, JAMES R · Mechanic +IA
Airframe & Powerplant — 3.2 mi from KPWK
N1703 · SR22
I19 Xenia, OH · 26 Jan 2016
600,000+
Aircraft registrations
Every N-number in the FAA registry, searchable any way you can say it.
1,000,000+
Airmen on record
Pilots, mechanics, and drone pilots — searchable by certificate and distance.
1948
NTSB records since
Every accident report in the federal record, back to 1948.
47,000
Airports & fields
Runways, frequencies, managers — from O'Hare to the grass strip.
Type the way you’d say it — every word narrows the result. Aircraft registrations, airmen, accident reports, airports, airline fleets, and a full aircraft encyclopedia, cross-linked so every record leads deeper.
Registry
Tail number, owner, make and model, city, state — in any order. “SR22 Columbus OH” finds all four. And the count is the answer: ask how many SR22s are in Ohio and get the exact number. Even the FAA's own tools can't do that.
4 RESULTS · REGISTRY
N648CB · SR22
648cb LLC — Columbus OH
N6288B · SR22T
Carmon Plastics LLC — Columbus OH
Airmen
Search 1M+ FAA airmen by certificate and airport — “A&P KPWK” returns mechanics by actual miles, with IA endorsements flagged. Neither is in the FAA's own search.
Mechanic +IA · 3.2 mi from KPWK
NTSB
Full NTSB records — factual report, probable cause, analysis, pilot experience, and who owned the aircraft at the time of the accident, not who owns it today.
Airports
Runway lengths, surfaces and lighting, frequencies, managers — and searches like “IL >5000” for every Illinois field with 5,000 feet of pavement.
10L/28R · 13,000 ft
Concrete · Lighted · KORD
Fleets
Carriers by name, ICAO or IATA code, country, and headquarters — UAL, UA, or United all get you there.
United Airlines
ICAO: UAL | IATA: UA · US
Encyclopedia
A full aircraft encyclopedia — history, technical data, production numbers — one tap from any registration, accident report, or type rating.
C172 · Cessna 172 Skyhawk
44,000+ built · 20,000+ still flying
Records the way they should read: full detail, maps where they help, and every fact one tap from the next — registry to accident report to airport to encyclopedia.
FIG 01 · NTSB SEARCH
Accident reports, newest first — severity at a glance
FIG 02 · REGISTRY
The full FAA record — with the aircraft's last known position
FIG 03 · AIRMEN
Certificates, ratings, medicals — every type rating linked
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Pick a record set — Registry, Airmen, NTSB, Airports, Fleets, or Encyclopedia — and type the way you'd say it out loud. “Cessna IL Chicago 172.” “A&P KPWK.” “Fatal Mooney 1967.” No forms, no field-by-field inquiry pages.
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AvDB reads each term — registrations, cities, states, models, certificates, severity words, years — and every one filters the result. Four words in, 600,000 aircraft become 18. The true count always shows, so the number itself can be your answer.
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Tap through to the complete file: registry details with last known position, NTSB analysis with pilot experience and the owner at the time, airman certificates with every type rating — each linked to the next record set.
Seventy-eight years of accident reports.
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The same records the pros pull — inspectors, investigators, brokers, mechanics — in a tool fast enough to use mid-conversation. And if you just love airplanes, it works exactly the same for “whose Gulfstream is that?”
FSDO · Ramp check
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Insurance & claims
An airframe's full accident history — including who owned it at the time of each event — before the file gets opened.
Brokers & dealers
Registry status, exact model counts by state, and damage history on any tail — deal-desk answers without a JETNET contract.
A&P / IA & CFIs
You're in here too. Airmen search finds mechanics with current IA and instructors by airport, sorted by real miles.
Accidents & NTSB
The pre-buy question that matters most: has this airframe been bent? How to run the accident check properly — including the identities it wore before.
Read the guide →Aircraft lookups
Ownership is public record, but the name on the registration is often an LLC or a trustee bank. How to find the owner — and read through the paperwork.
Read the guide →Pilots & mechanics
Every owner eventually needs an IA on short notice. The FAA's designee search won't sort by distance — here's the tool that does, and how to use it.
Read the guide →AvDB is an aviation database app for iPhone. It puts the full federal aviation record behind one search box: 600,000+ aircraft registrations, over a million FAA airmen, every NTSB accident report back to 1948, 47,000 airports, airline fleets, and a complete aircraft encyclopedia. Type what you know — a tail number, an owner, a certificate and an airport — and every word narrows the result.
AvDB is free to download and includes free searches every month across all six record sets. Subscriptions raise your search limits and unlock more — and one subscription works across the whole AviatorDB family, including SpotterLog and aviatordb.com.
Yes — every current FAA registration resolves to its full record: aircraft, owner, status, airworthiness, engine, Mode S code, and last known position on a map. And you don't need the tail number: owner names, models, and locations all work as search terms, in any order.
Yes — and this is data you won't find elsewhere: AvDB geocodes airman addresses and sorts by real miles from any airport, with Inspection Authorization flagged on each record. “A&P KPWK” is literally the list of mechanics nearest Palwaukee.
Pick the NTSB source and describe the accident in plain words — tail number, make and model, city, state, year, or severity (“fatal Mooney 1967”). Reports open in full: factual, analysis, probable cause, and pilot experience.
A 12-month running history of everything that happens to your favorited aircraft: ownership transfers, registration changes, and new accident records — each badged by source, gathered for you as they post.
Free to download, with free searches every month. The full federal aviation record — one search box away.
