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Airport Data: NASR-Sourced Facility Information

How AeroCopilot's airport directory is built — FAA NASR 5010 fields, Chart Supplement data, frequencies, hot spots, D-ATIS, status, and weather cameras.

The AeroCopilot airport directory is built from FAA-published airport datasets — the same data your local FBO and the published Chart Supplement reference. Each airport page assembles fields from multiple feeds so you do not have to flip between three apps to brief a destination.

What you see per airport

NASR 5010 facility data

80+ fields per airport, including identifier and name, location and elevation, runway dimensions and surface, lighting, ownership, attendance, fuel availability, and services. This is the same dataset the FAA publishes through its National Airspace System Resource (NASR) subscription.

Chart Supplement (formerly A/FD)

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 56 days.

Per-airport supplemental data — services, hours, frequencies, remarks — decoded by airport identifier. Surfaced inline on the airport page and queryable via the AI airport-info tool.

Frequencies grid

ATIS, Tower, Ground, Clearance, Approach, CTAF, UNICOM, FSS (122.2 / 122.4 Lockheed), and the 121.5 universal emergency frequency are presented in a single grid so you do not have to mine them out of the supplement text.

Runway wind analysis

For every runway end at the field, AeroCopilot computes crosswind and headwind components against the live METAR. A dashboard widget runs the same calculation against your home airport.

Live operational data

FAA Airport Status

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 5 minutes.

Live status from the FAA OIS feed — ground stops, ground delay programs, and airspace flow programs. Surfaced as a banner on the airport page and queried by the AI delays tool. The dashboard's airport-status widget integrates with the Live FAA NAS Status API at nasstatus.faa.gov/api/airport-status-information.

D-ATIS — Digital Automatic Terminal Information Service

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 5 minutes.

Digital ATIS broadcasts at major airports, indexed by airport and ATIS code letter, surfaced both in the airport directory and on the dashboard widget for your home airport.

FAA Weather Cameras

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 10 minutes.

FAA-operated weather cameras at remote airports — particularly across Alaska — surface visual confirmation alongside the METAR.

Surface and procedural data

FAA Airport Hot Spots

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 56 days.

Runway-incursion-prone intersections highlighted in the Chart Supplement. Rendered into the airport's surface-operations briefing.

Instrument Approach Procedures

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 28 days.

PDF approach plates, departure procedures, and arrivals (STARs) indexed by procedure name and AIRAC cycle. Linked from the airport page and pulled into the IFR planning flow.

CIFP

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 28 days.

The same approach data in machine-readable ARINC 424 form, used to generate equipment strings and to drive the IFR template builder.

FAA Digital Obstacle File (DOF)

Source: FAA · Refresh: every 56 days.

Geocoded man-made obstacles at or above 200 ft AGL with location, AGL/MSL heights, lighting, and accuracy codes. Powers the AI obstacle-warning tool and the map obstacles layer.

Safety overlays

NTSB Aviation Accident Database

Source: NTSB · Refresh: daily.

Accident and incident records by date, location, aircraft, severity, and probable cause. The AI accident-history tool surfaces relevant precedents during planning.

FAA Wildlife Strike Database

Source: FAA · Refresh: monthly.

Strike records with location, date, species, and damage severity, segmented by season and aircraft phase. Feeds the wildlife-risk tool on the airport page and the dashboard's Wildlife Risk widget.

AI tools that read this data

The Copilot reaches the same airport datasets you see on the page:

  • getAirportInfo — comprehensive airport data (runways, frequencies, services).
  • getNearbyAirports — find airports near a location, used for diversion planning.
  • getNotams — active NOTAMs for an airport (see the NOTAMs and TFRs doc).
  • The D-ATIS, weather-cameras, delays, hot-spot, wildlife-risk, and obstacle tools each map to the corresponding feed listed above.

Refresh model

AIRAC-bound data (charts, procedures, supplements, airspace, hot spots, obstacles) rotates on the FAA's published 28- and 56-day cycles. Live operational data (status, D-ATIS, NOTAMs, TFRs, METAR) refreshes every 5 minutes. You do not need to trigger refreshes manually — the cycle schedule is checked daily.