Today I photographed a Learjet, N663TW, but when I went to post it there was no profile. Wondering about the status of the aircraft, I checked the FAA registry. The bird is there! Of course I built the profile from the FAA information, but my question is, why was there no profile for an FAA registered aircraft when the registration is not new? It was registered in February 2012, so I would think it would be profiled.

The FAA auto update has been disabled by Ken due to the number of duplicate and inaccurate profiles it produces.

Hi Glenn

There 'sorta' were profiles for this bird, but not with the current US registry.

I usually do a c/n (msn) search, before creating a new profile, or modifying/updating an existing one.

Currently there are four profile for this bird, on site, not all linked.

Again it seems that the A-Data DB is not regularly 'synced' with FAA data.

John

Yeah, I didn't think about checking the c/n until AFTER I made the profile. So that N663TW is the one I made. I posted a "data correction" note about correcting the profile to make it exact with others for linking.

I was just curious why the FAA auto download didn't work, especially since the plane had been registered since February. So now I know why!

all the non-US registrations have been manually put in or are we linked with any of them too?

Copa (Panama airline) has been taking deliveries of new 737-800s and I have been adding a lot of HP regs, but some had been in service with Copa for 2 years.

I kind of figured we aren't linked with too many South or Central American registries other than manually added ones. However I thought we were hooked up to the CAA (Canadian) databases and I have had to add quite a few Canadian ones that were more than a year registered.

Daniel,

CAA registry database is processed manually, once in a while. Actually the only automated import was FAA database, which is stopped now. All other databases besides FAA's is not well formatted and contains much less data, or have to be downloaded manually, so it's not fessible, if not impossible, to create such a script. And not to mention the duplicates an automated script can produce.

Ken