Request Copies of Aircraft Records

The Aircraft Registration Branch maintains registration records on individual aircraft and serves as a repository for airworthiness documents received from FAA field offices.

Request Records
You can mail or fax your request for aircraft records or Request Copies of Aircraft Records online.

Written requests from outside the U.S. must include a check or money order (in U.S. funds) payable to the Federal Aviation Administration to cover the projected fee.

Format
You can order paper copies or electronic copies (on CD-ROM) of aircraft records. Each CD-ROM contains one aircraft record. You can view the CD-ROM files using Adobe Acrobat Reader. We will include a copy of the latest reader on the CD-ROM.

Most records for aircraft removed from the U.S. Civil Aircraft Register before 1984 are in storage and only available in paper format. We can retrieve them on request.

Fees
CD-ROM
$10.00 per CD ROM (one aircraft record per CD)

If required:
$3.00 to certify the record is true and complete (generally only required for court cases)

Paper
$2.00 search fee, charged for each aircraft record requested
$0.25 for photocopy of first page of records on paper
$0.05 for each successive paper page (an average paper record has 76 pages)
$2.00 if the record must be recalled from Federal Storage

If required:
$3.00 to certify the record is true and complete (generally only required for court cases)

We will send a billing letter with your aircraft records. There is no charge for copies provided to government offices for use in official duties.