Aviation Data

Upstream sources catalog

Transparency report — every data source behind the Aviation Data API, with licence and sync status.

GET/v1/reference/sourcesRequires X-API-Key

The data sources behind the Aviation Data API, with licence and freshness, for attribution.

OurAirports (CC0): airports, runways, frequencies, navaids.
OpenTravelData (CC BY 4.0): airport, city and metro codes, timezones and ranks; airlines; published airline networks. Credit it if you display its data.
FAA Aircraft Characteristics Database (U.S. Government work): aircraft types.
Norba internal seed catalog (proprietary): curated records filling gaps.

Each entry has id, name, source_type, family, url, license, license_url, restrictions, enabled, status (ready, syncing, degraded, not_configured) and last_synced. A source with enabled: false feeds no endpoint.

Request example

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.norba.io/v1/reference/sources \
  --header "X-API-Key: $NORBA_KEY"

Response example

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ourairports",
      "name": "OurAirports",
      "source_type": "open-data",
      "family": "reference",
      "url": "https://ourairports.com/data/",
      "license": "Public Domain (CC0)",
      "license_url": "https://ourairports.com/data/",
      "enabled": true,
      "status": "ready",
      "last_synced": "2026-10-12T03:10:44Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "opentraveldata-routes",
      "name": "OpenTravelData airline networks",
      "source_type": "open-data",
      "family": "schedule",
      "url": "https://opentraveldata.github.io/opentraveldata/",
      "license": "CC-BY 4.0 (for OPTD-maintained curated datasets)",
      "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "restrictions": "Published non-stop city pairs and average frequency per airline. Marketing carriers as filed; a route an airline sells only as a codeshare is filed under its operator.",
      "enabled": true,
      "status": "ready",
      "last_synced": "2026-10-12T03:10:44Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "internal-seed",
      "name": "Norba internal seed catalog",
      "source_type": "internal-normalized",
      "family": "reference",
      "license": "Proprietary",
      "enabled": true,
      "status": "ready"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "1d8e09e831a0c5be",
    "count": 7,
    "total": 7
  },
  "errors": []
}

Authorization

X-API-KeystringRequired

Your API key from the dashboard. A missing or invalid key answers 401; see Authentication.