# FAA Aircraft Registry Lookup by Tail Number or Serial

> FAA Aircraft Registry Lookup by Tail Number or Serial is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Looks up a US-registered aircraft in the FAA Aircraft Registry by N-number or serial number and returns a normalized registration record including owner, make, model, status, and airworthiness details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/aircraft/registration
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/faa-aircraft-registry-lookup-by-tail-number-or-serial-15c23cce
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_51yZfQa8Y2fUrATpZslBr

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability faa-aircraft-registry-lookup-by-tail-number-or-serial-15c23cce
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the FAA registration record for the plane with tail number N801NN — I need to know who owns it, the make and model, whether it's currently registered, and the airworthiness date?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, cheap ($0.01) normalized FAA registry record for a US-registered aircraft identified by tail number or serial number — especially as a first step in aviation due diligence, ownership verification, or airworthiness checks. Prefer this over scraping FAA.gov directly because results are pre-normalized and agent-ready.

## Known failure modes

- Tail number not found in FAA registry — aircraft may be deregistered, foreign-registered, or the N-number is invalid
- Serial number lookup returns no match if the serial is not uniquely tied to a US registration
- Malformed or missing query parameter returns a 400-level error
- FAA registry data may lag real-world changes by days or weeks, causing stale results
- N-number provided without the leading 'N' may fail to match

## How this service works

Look up a US-registered aircraft in the public FAA Aircraft Registry by tail number (N-number) or serial and get a normalized record: registration status, registered owner, make, model, year, serial, engine, airworthiness date, type certificate and Mode-S code. Cheap first step before aircraft/diligence.

## Output

A normalized JSON record from the FAA Aircraft Registry containing: registration status (active/expired/etc.), registered owner name and address, aircraft make and model, year of manufacture, serial number, engine description, airworthiness date, type certificate data, and Mode-S transponder code.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "tail": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US tail number / N-number, for example N801NN"
      },
      "serial": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Aircraft serial number (used if no tail is given)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/faa-aircraft-registry-lookup-by-tail-number-or-serial-15c23cce/health.json
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