Search facilities

Returns the facilities that best match a code or name, best match first. Unlike List facilities, it searches every facility we know about, including airports we do not cover, and returns no channels. Accepts the api:onboarding permission as well as api:read.

Query parameters

string

required

Text to match, at most 100 characters. Case-insensitive. Matches the start of an airport’s ICAO, IATA, or FAA code, a TRACON or center code, or the start of any word in a facility’s name or an airport’s city.Punctuation is ignored: apostrophes and periods are dropped, so ohare matches O'Hare and st louis matches St. Louis, and other punctuation separates words, so wilkes barre matches Wilkes-Barre.

string

airport, tracon, or center. Only facilities of that type are returned.

integer

default:"10"

Number of results, 1 to 25.

Response

array

The matching facilities, best match first.

Show facility

string

Unique id of the facility. Pass it as facility_id, or as primary_airport_facility_id when saving an onboarding profile.

string

airport, tracon, or center.

string

Airport display code such as SFO, or the TRACON or center code such as N90 or ZAU.

string

Name of the facility.

string | null

The airport’s city. null for TRACONs and centers, and for airports without one.

Ranking

Results are ranked by how the query matched:

An exact ICAO, IATA, FAA, TRACON, or center code.
The start of an IATA, FAA, TRACON, or center code.
The start of any word in the facility’s name, alternate name, or city.
The start of an ICAO code only.

Within each group, US facilities come before others, then large airports before medium and small ones. In group 3, a name or city that starts with the query then comes before one where a later word does, so san francisco returns San Francisco International before Oakland San Francisco Bay. Remaining ties are ordered by name. New facilities can take up to 15 minutes to appear.

Billing

Free. See Pricing.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ER_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.enhancedradar.com/api/v0/facilities/search?q=san&facility_type=airport&limit=3"

{
  "facilities": [
    {
      "facility_id": "3667d976-1566-4887-ae34-c024d92f46c7",
      "facility_type": "airport",
      "facility_code": "SFO",
      "facility_name": "San Francisco",
      "airport_municipality": "San Francisco, CA"
    }
  ]
}

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