Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wind Turbine Location Data

The data sets provided on this page are derived from the FAA’s Obstruction Analysis / Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA) data (https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/portal.jsp).

Each month, the raw, tabular data is downloaded, complied and modified*, then used to create a series of ArcGIS layer files and feature classes as well as KMZ files (for use in Google Earth). The data modifications include the addition of US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) regions and the grouping of the data by determination and status to reduce the number of categories and making it easier to display using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.

Map of the GIS layers depicting the generalized status categories.

The four generalized* status categories that the data are sorted into include:

* The raw Determination and Status data in maintained in the Excel spreadsheet (see downloads below) as well as in the attribute tables of the ArcGIS feature classes and KMZ files.

Wind turbines in south Texas with Determined with Built Date GIS overlay

The data are avaialable for download in three formats (as zip files):

1. GIS - The zip file contains a file geodatabase with four feature classes (one for each category) and four corresponding layer files that contain the speific symbology as seen in the map above.

2. KML - The zip file contains 4 KMZ files for each FWS Region (total of 32 KMZ files). These can be viewed in Google Earth.

3. Excel - The zip file contains an Excel 2010 spreadsheet of all the raw data from the FAA downloads.

FAA Wind Turbine Location Data Downloads for the current year (READ ME file):

GIS¹

KML²

Excel³

For Data from previous years, click HERE

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