Agent skill · data analytics · mvanhorn
pp-faa-registry
Look up any US aircraft by tail number from the terminal — live FAA registry inquiries plus a daily-synced offline copy of the full registry for fleet queries, Mode S hex decoding, and expiration alerts no other tool has.
Why this skill is useful
Provides niche commands for querying the FAA aircraft registry that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires faa-registry-pp-cli installed locally. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/travel/faa-registry/SKILL.md, regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". --> Faa Registry — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the faa-registry-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: faa-registry-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. CLI for the FAA Civil Aviation Registry. Look up any US-registered aircraft by N-number, serial number, owner name, make/model, engine, dealer, or state/county via the live registry.faa.gov inquiry app — and sync the FAA's daily Releasable Aircraft Database (all ~315K active registrations, ~383K deregistered records, ~126K reserved N-numbers, plus aircraft-model and engine reference data) into a local SQLite store for instant offline search, fleet reports, Mode S hex decoding, and expiring-registration alerts. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-faa-registry