Credits & sources
Aviator Archive ships with 84,000+ airports, 10,000+ aircraft types, 1,500+ manufacturers, and worldwide map coverage built in. None of that exists without the open-data communities below — we owe them an honest credit, in writing.
Last updated: 2026-04-25
84,443 airports
The full worldwide airport database — ICAO and IATA codes, names, locations, elevations, runways. Updated continuously by the OurAirports community.
Refresh your own copy
Pull the latest CSV from ourairports.com/data/ any time you want a fresher copy than the one bundled with your build.
https://ourairports.com/data/ →10,021 aircraft types · 1,548 manufacturers
The aircraft type and manufacturer reference data — ICAO Doc 8643 type designators, manufacturer names, type categories, engine info.
Refresh your own copy
Snapshots are released periodically at opensky-network.org/datasets/metadata/. Pull the newest snapshot if you need the latest types.
https://opensky-network.org/datasets/metadata/ →Map tiles — global
Map tiles for the Career Map and per-flight map view inside the app. © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Refresh your own copy
Tiles are fetched live or pre-rendered with each app update. The OSM project is under continuous community maintenance.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright →Each release of Aviator Archive bundles the freshest baseline of these datasets we have at build time. You don't need to do anything — install the latest version and you're current.
If you're the kind of pilot who wants newer data between our releases (a brand-new airfield, a niche type designator the bundled set hasn't picked up yet), pull the latest CSV directly from the upstream source above. A built-in self-refresh flow is on the roadmap; until then the data lives in your bundle and the upstreams are one click away.
The Aviator Archive app is built on top of the Flutter framework, the SQLite embedded database, and dozens of open-source Dart packages. A complete list of the libraries we ship — with their licences — lives in the in-app About → Open-source licences screen. We try to upstream patches when we touch a dependency in a useful way.
To the OurAirports volunteers who curate one of the best open aviation datasets on the internet, to the OpenSky Network research team for sharing the metadata that makes type-rating filters actually work, and to the OpenStreetMap contributors who keep the world mapped — Aviator Archive is better because of you.
