430,000 Aircraft. Four Continents. One Search.

Every aircraft has an owner, and every owner has an address. For decades that simple fact has been buried across a half-dozen national registries in different formats, languages, and levels of disrepair. This summer we finished something we believe nobody else in general aviation has done: we unified the civil aircraft registries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil — and made 430,086 aircraft locatable by their owner's location, searchable from a single page.

What that actually means

Type a ZIP code and a radius, and PlaneLists shows you every registered aircraft whose owner is based within it — 7,500+ within 50 miles of Los Angeles, 600+ within 100 km of Vernon, British Columbia. Ask the same question in Queensland or São Paulo state and it works there too. Under the hood, that's four national registries — the FAA, Transport Canada, Australia's CASA, and Brazil's ANAC — refreshed on schedule, geocoded against national postal databases, and indexed for radius search with the correct units for each country. Mexico's AFAC registry is aboard as well for search and fleet data.

Search the way pilots talk

Registries store model codes. Pilots say names. Until now, searching a registry for "Bonanza" returned nothing, because the FAA files those aircraft as 35s, A36s, and F33As under "BEECH."

We fixed that. PlaneLists now understands more than sixty aircraft nicknames and marketing names — Bonanza, Baron, King Air, Skyhawk, Skylane, Caravan, Cherokee, Saratoga, Comanche, Super Cub, Ovation, Tiger, Viking, and the rest — each mapped to the exact model families behind it. Type "Bonanza" and you get the real fleet: every 33, 35, and 36-series Beech on the registry, nearly nine thousand of them.

An AI broker that knows what's not for sale

The PlaneLists AI Broker answers plain-language questions — in English, Portuguese, or Spanish — against the live market and all five registries at once. Ask for "an A36 under $400k newer than 1990" and it searches 9,000+ live listings, weighs airworthiness-directive exposure on the strongest candidates, and then does the thing no listing site can: it tells you how much off-market supply exists. "There are 14 A36 Bonanzas registered in North Carolina that aren't currently listed."

The rest of the stack

Behind the headline features sits the platform we've been building all along: 369,000+ US aircraft with full FAA registration detail, nearly 600,000 FAA airmen, 19,000+ airports, 20,000+ airworthiness directives matched to airframes and engines, NTSB accident and incident history integrated into every aircraft profile, and 9,000+ live for-sale listings refreshed around the clock — every aircraft page a free AD check away.

Counts current as of August 2026 and update continuously. Sourced from the FAA, Transport Canada, CASA, ANAC RAB, and AFAC registries, NTSB records, and live market feeds. Always verify airworthiness and compliance against official records before any transaction.