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FAA Digital Obstacle File (DOF)

Geocoded man-made obstacles ≥200 ft AGL.

Agency

FAA

Update cadence

Daily (FAA Daily DOF; the 56-day figure is the cycle edition)

Category

Airport Operations

What we ingest

Obstacle locations, AGL/MSL heights, lighting and accuracy codes.

Where this feed reaches

A region on this list means we fetch it. It is not a promise of station density: a listed region can still have sparse or no reporting sites near a given airport. Where a feed does not reach a region at all, this page says so instead of showing an empty panel.

  • Continental United States
  • Alaska
  • Hawaii
  • Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
  • Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
  • American Samoa

How AeroCopilot uses it

AI obstacle-warning tool + map layer.

Powers these features

The product surfaces below depend on this feed.

Map obstacles layerAI obstacle tool

Upstream source: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/dof/

Cite this

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AeroCopilot — FAA Digital Obstacle File (DOF). Data: FAA (https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/dof/). https://www.aerocopilot.ai/data-sources/obstacle-database.

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The Copilot has live access to FAA Digital Obstacle File (DOF) during every conversation.