Aircraft Registry Airports

Terms of Service

Last updated August 26, 2026

What AviHawk Is

AviHawk is a reference tool for looking up U.S. aircraft registration records, decoding tail number nationality prefixes, and viewing airport weather (METAR) and frequency information, plus (for account holders) a pilot profile, tracked fleet, and self-reported ratings. For flight schools and clubs, it's also a management platform: scheduling, maintenance tracking, training records, and optional payment processing for billing students (see Payments & Billing below). It is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the FAA, NOAA, or any aviation authority.

Accounts

You're responsible for keeping your password secure and for activity that happens under your account. Use a real email address — it's how we deliver account verification and password resets, and it's the only account contact info we have for you. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. We can suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

Payments & Billing

Some schools and clubs on AviHawk use it to bill their own students for flight time, rentals, or other charges. If you're a student, you're paying the school — AviHawk is the technology that makes the charge happen, not the other party to that transaction. All payment processing is handled by Stripe, Inc., a third-party payment processor. AviHawk never collects, transmits, or stores your card number — that's handled entirely by Stripe.

Charges you make go directly to the school's own Stripe account, not to AviHawk. Any "balance" shown in the app reflects funds you've already paid to that school; AviHawk does not hold, custody, or have access to that money. AviHawk charges a small platform fee (currently 2%) on each transaction, collected automatically as part of the payment.

Each school sets its own rates, hourly fees, and billing terms — AviHawk does not set, review, or guarantee the accuracy of any school's pricing. Refunds, billing disputes, and disagreements about hours flown or amounts owed are between you and the school; contact the school directly. Because each school's connected Stripe account (not AviHawk) is the merchant of record, financial responsibility for chargebacks and payment disputes on a charge sits with that school, not with AviHawk. Schools that connect a Stripe account through AviHawk separately agree to Stripe's own Connected Account Agreement.

Don't use a stolen, unauthorized, or fraudulent payment method, and don't attempt to reverse a legitimate charge through a chargeback instead of resolving it with the school first.

Ratings & Certifications Are Self-Reported

Pilot ratings shown on a profile (PPL, IFR, Commercial, Multi-Engine, and similar) are entered by the account holder and are not independently verified by AviHawk. The exception is professional credentials with real safety consequences if falsely claimed — instructor certificates (CFI/CFII/MEI), Inspection Authorization (IA), and A&P Mechanic: those only display with a "Verified" badge after the holder has emailed proof to [email protected] and we've manually confirmed it. Even so, always independently verify any instructor's, IA holder's, or mechanic's actual certificate and standing with the FAA before booking instruction or maintenance — a "Verified" badge here reflects our manual review, not an FAA endorsement, and we can't guarantee it's never wrong.

Not for Operational or Legal Use

AviHawk is provided for general information and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for official sources and must not be used for flight planning, maintenance, airworthiness determinations, legal proceedings, or any other purpose where accuracy or currency is safety- or legally-critical. Always verify against the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, official aeronautical charts, current NOTAMs, and the aircraft's own POH/AFM before acting on anything shown here.

Data Accuracy

Aircraft registry data is refreshed nightly from the FAA's public Releasable Aircraft Database and may lag the FAA's own records by up to a day. METAR and airport data come from third-party sources (NOAA Aviation Weather Center, OurAirports) and are shown as received, without independent verification. Aircraft spec cards (V-speeds, weights, performance) are typical/representative figures for orientation only, not manufacturer data, and may not match your specific aircraft's actual POH/AFM. Live position data, where shown, depends on third-party ADS-B feeds and may be delayed, incomplete, or unavailable.

No Warranty

AviHawk is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose. Use of any information from this site is at your own risk.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AviHawk and its operator are not liable for any damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, this site or its data. This includes, without limitation, a school's failure to deliver instruction or aircraft time you've paid for, a school's refund or billing practices, disputes over hours flown or amounts owed, and outages or errors in Stripe's payment processing that are outside AviHawk's control.

Acceptable Use

  • Don't scrape, bulk-download, or hammer the site in a way that degrades it for other users.
  • Don't use the site to harass, dox, or target any individual identified in registry records or another account holder.
  • Don't create an account under someone else's identity, or falsely claim a certification you don't hold.
  • Don't attempt to circumvent, probe, or attack the site's infrastructure.

Changes

These terms may be updated from time to time. Continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or to request instructor-rating verification: [email protected]