Find places to fly using the latest FAA-sourced data. Here's the gist of each website section:
Destination
Type an airport code to start. If you don't know one, enter the city and state (e.g., Los Angeles, CA), or use latitude and longitude coordinates. The map can narrow results to show only destinations with the desired runway width, pavement quality and towered or untowered status. You can also measure the distance between any two locations.
Set minimum and maximum distances to find a list of 50NM, 250NM or even 6,000NM cross-country opportunities for training or exploring within the United States and its territories. Distances are calculated with the WGS84 model (see
AIM 1-1-18). The methodology was reverse-engineered to match results from the FAA's much more limited great circle calculator.
Airports
Quickly find key information for any public use airport. It works from Bangor, Maine (BGR) to Pago Pago, American Samoa (PPG). More prominent airports include data otherwise scattered across official sources. This includes towered airport traffic rankings from OPSNET, contract tower status and the FAA's safety briefings for airports with tricky layouts.
Don't know what to search for? Just hit the "Find" button to be taken randomly to one of 4,733 U.S. airports.
Enter an airport code or a partial airport name (for example, "gnoss" will pull up "Gnoss Field"). The partial name search only displays the first result from the database. "Santa" will show "Santa Clara" but not "Santa Ana." Select an approach category for a summary of instrument approach minimums (based on Ammar Askar's tool).
Traffic
The traffic page ranks towered airports by the number of operations over 12 months. Each "operation" represents one takeoff or landing. You can also look at rankings within each state.
Privacy
We don't collect any data or monetize anything. We don't care what you search for.
What's the point?
This isn't competing with anything. I made the search tool to find cross-country destinations during my PPL flight training. I gradually expanded it to track my flights so I could always find a new place to land. It's now online in case someone else finds it useful. If you want to get in touch, try my last name at the website address. No direct link to avoid having AI spam bots send dozens of "We can improve your SEO" emails.
-- Richard Diamond