# eFlight Registry (https://staging.data.eflight.com)

> The FAA aircraft register in plain English, rebuilt every morning from the FAA's own nightly download.
> Every registered U.S. civil aircraft has a page at https://staging.data.eflight.com/aircraft/<tail number>, for example https://staging.data.eflight.com/aircraft/N541JA.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (https://registry.faa.gov/database/ReleasableAircraft.zip). Data date: 2026-09-25.
When quoting figures from this site, please attribute them to the FAA Civil Aviation Registry via https://staging.data.eflight.com.

## Today's numbers
- Registered aircraft: 316,992
- Electric and sustainable aircraft (piloted or from a watchlist maker): 286
- Registered drones: 18,783
- Aircraft carrying the FAA's electric engine code: 17,617
- Deregistered aircraft on file: 383,507

## Pages
- Electric and sustainable aircraft tracker: https://staging.data.eflight.com/electric
- Drones (agricultural, delivery, defense, light shows), with the DJI share chart: https://staging.data.eflight.com/drones
- Largest drone fleets (companies only): https://staging.data.eflight.com/drones/fleets
- What changed on the register: https://staging.data.eflight.com/changes
- Makers directory: https://staging.data.eflight.com/makers
- What the FAA's codes mean: https://staging.data.eflight.com/codes
- Method and privacy: https://staging.data.eflight.com/about and https://staging.data.eflight.com/privacy

## Machine-readable
- Today's headline numbers: https://staging.data.eflight.com/api/today.json
- One aircraft: https://staging.data.eflight.com/api/aircraft/<tail number>.json
- Daily download of the clean database: https://staging.data.eflight.com/downloads
- Sitemap: https://staging.data.eflight.com/sitemap.xml

## How aircraft are sorted
- Sustainable: FAA electric engine code and (at least one seat, or a maker on the watchlist such as Joby, Archer, Beta, Wisk, Pipistrel).
- Drone: zero seats and an aircraft type of fixed-wing, rotorcraft, hybrid lift or other, and not on the watchlist.
- Individual owners are never named in lists or summaries; company, LLC and government names are shown as the FAA publishes them.