ICAO aircraft type designator
ID icao_aircraft_type
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Code of an aircraft type in ICAO Document 8643, used in flight plans and air traffic control. It has two to four capital letters and digits. Airline schedules use the three-character IATA code instead (iata_aircraft_type).
- Categories
- Transportation
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{1,3}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| B738 | Boeing 737-800 |
| C17 | Three-character designator |
| b738 invalid | Lowercase |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Код типа воздушного судна ИКАО |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/icao_aircraft_type - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/transport/air/icao_aircraft_type.yamlon GitHub