Data.gov Aviation Tag Catalog
Datadory delivers data gov aviation tag catalog data: every record in the US government's open-data catalog matching the term aviation - at least 100 datasets out of roughly 552,000, led by NASA (29), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (17) and the FAA (12+), each carrying thirteen DCAT metadata attributes from title to last-harvested timestamp.
What is the Data.gov Aviation Tag Catalog?
Not a measurement series but a discovery layer: a keyword slice of the United States' federated open-data catalog, which holds roughly 552,000 harvested datasets from federal, state, county, city and university publishers. Inside it, the term aviation matched at least 100 records on the first page of results alone. Three agencies dominate the publisher list - NASA with 29 records including Aviation Safety Reporting System flight-training reports, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics with 17 including Aviation Facts and Figures, General Aviation and Commercial Aviation Departures, and the FAA with at least 12 including Aviation Facilities - with the DOT Office of the Secretary and NASA Ames' Dashlink filling out the tail.
For air freight work the wide keyword is the point. A narrower air cargo query surfaces 14 datasets; this slice returns at least seven times that and catches cargo-adjacent records the narrow term misses - airport facility locations, intermodal connections, aviation noise exposure, carrier statistics. See where it sits among the other air freight logistics data sources Datadory catalogs.
What does a sample of the catalog look like?
Five records, straight from the top of the slice:
title : Aviation Facilities
publisher: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
title : Aviation Facts and Figures
publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
modified : 2025-08-13
title : General Aviation
publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
title : Commercial Aviation Departures
publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
title : Aviation Safety Reporting System: General Aviation Flight Training Reports
publisher: National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNotice what every row carries whether you asked for it or not: a named publisher. That turns the catalog into more than a pile of search results - it is a directory to the deeper primary sources behind each record, from BTS statistical compendiums to NASA's safety-reporting archive.
What fields does each record include?
Thirteen metadata attributes ride along on every record under the DCAT standard governments publish against. Eight carry definitions and worked examples below, each verified against real records before this page was written; the remaining four are summarized beneath the table.
What does coverage look like across geography, time and granularity?
Geography - United States across every publisher tier the catalog accepts: federal agencies, states, counties, cities, universities, plus tribal and non-profit contributors.
Temporal - a continuously harvested catalog whose records span the 2000s through 2026. Freshness splits in two: the harvest timestamp tells you when the catalog last saw a record (one documented example reads 2026-08-02T23:27:02), while the modified date tells you when the publisher last touched the underlying dataset - Aviation Facts and Figures reads 2025-08-13. Check both before assuming recency.
Granularity - one record per dataset. This is metadata about data, not the measurements themselves, which makes it the right layer for deciding what to pull next rather than for computing tonnage.
How is the data delivered?
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Who uses this data, and for what?
- Federal aviation landscape mapping - one pass over the slice shows which agency owns which topic: facilities at the FAA, statistics at BTS, safety reporting at NASA. Worth doing before settling on a primary feed.
- Facility and network siting - FAA facility locations and intermodal air-to-truck connection records supply the physical-layer context route planning usually lacks.
- Noise exposure and community impact - BTS tables quantifying population exposed to aviation noise support expansion studies and community-impact work around hubs.
- Citation-grade sourcing - every record names a government publisher, so entries hold up in client decks, filings and literature reviews without extra provenance work.
- Pipeline seeding - keyword-driven harvests make a cheap discovery layer that decides which carrier-statistic and fleet feeds deserve full ingestion.
Which personas get the most value?
Market researchers and consultants get a fast, authoritative index of federal aviation statistics organized by agency. Developers building data products get a stable thirteen-field record shape to hang discovery layers on. Data scientists and ML engineers get a repeatable harvesting pattern for assembling aviation corpora. Journalists, academics and students get citation-grade primary sources with named publishers. Competitive-intel teams watch the margins: newly indexed facility and fleet files can signal infrastructure moves before they make headlines.
Field dictionary
Every field below is documented against real records. The full dictionary ships with the sample.
| field | type | definition | example |
|---|---|---|---|
title | string | Dataset title exactly as the publishing agency supplied it. | Aviation Facilities |
publisher | string | Name of the publishing organization. | Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) |
issued | date | Date the dataset record was first issued. | 2023-09-20 |
modified | date | Date the record was last modified by its publisher. | 2025-08-13 |
accrualPeriodicity | string | ISO 8601 code stating how often the publisher asserts the dataset changes, where supplied; many records leave it blank. | R/P1Y |
organization | string | Publisher name, slug and government tier - federal, state or city. | Department of Transportation (slug: dot, Federal Government) |
has_download | boolean | Whether the record carries a verified downloadable file. | true |
last_harvested_date | datetime | When the catalog last harvested the record from its publisher. | 2026-08-02T23:27:02 |
Questions buyers ask
How many aviation datasets are in the Data.gov catalog?
At least 100 - the first page of results returns 100 records inside a catalog of roughly 552,000 harvested datasets. The catalog exposes no running total for a keyword, so treat 100+ as the verified floor rather than the full size of the aviation slice.
Is this the same as a search for air cargo data?
No - the two slices overlap only partially by design. A direct air cargo query surfaced 14 datasets; the broader aviation term returns at least 100 and pulls in cargo-adjacent records such as FAA facility files and aviation-noise exposure tables, though its matches lean toward passenger and safety topics. Run both terms together.
Which agencies publish the most aviation datasets here?
NASA leads with 29 records, including Aviation Safety Reporting System flight-training reports. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics follows with 17 - Aviation Facts and Figures, General Aviation and Commercial Aviation Departures among them - then the FAA with at least 12, including Aviation Facilities. The DOT Office of the Secretary and NASA Ames' Dashlink round out the list.
What formats do the underlying datasets arrive in?
Seven formats appear across the slice: JSON, CSV, XML, ZIP, XLS, KML and HTML. Depth varies by publishing agency rather than by the catalog - some records carry several verified downloads while others carry one - so format coverage is confirmed record by record when your sample is assembled.
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