Airside Labs Aviation Tools

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Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http aviation-tools https://mcp.airsidelabs.com/mcp

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps

Add it as a custom connector with this URL (Streamable HTTP):

https://mcp.airsidelabs.com/mcp

This server expects extra headers, usually an API key from its maker.

Cursor, VS Code and other apps (mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aviation-tools": {
      "url": "https://mcp.airsidelabs.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools it offers

29 tools, as the server itself reported during our check on Oct 31, 2026.

• resolve_airportWhich aerodrome does this airport code or name refer to on a given date? Accepts an IATA three-letter code, an ICAO four-letter code, an airport name fragment or a city name. Returns the aerodrome with its codes, locatio
• resolve_airlineWhich airline does this designator, name or callsign refer to on a date? Accepts an IATA two-character designator, an ICAO three-letter designator, an airline name or a callsign. Returns the operator with both designator
• resolve_aircraft_typeWhich aircraft type does this designator or marketing name refer to? Accepts an ICAO type designator (A21N) or a marketing name people actually say ("A321neo", "Dash 8-400", "777-300ER", "Q400"). Returns the ICAO designa
• resolve_registrationWhich airframe wore this registration on a given date? Accepts a tail number in any common form: VH-OQA, VHOQA, lowercase, padded with whitespace. Returns the aircraft with its country of registry, ICAO type designator,
• parse_flight_identifierSplit a flight designator into carrier and number, and identify the carrier. Accepts the forms that arrive in real message traffic: TK1979, BAW276, "U2 8341", BA02490, BA2490A. Returns the parsed carrier with its resolve
• flight_airframesWhich airframes have been heard operating this airline flight, how often and when -- from Airside Labs' own ADS-B receiver? Accepts a flight in any common form: BA49, BAW49, "BA 49", VS105. Returns each airframe heard br
• airframe_flightsWhich flights has this airframe been heard or filed operating, how often and when -- the inverse of flight_airframes, from Airside Labs' own ADS-B receiver and the FAA flight-plan feed? Accepts a registration in any comm
• validate_identifiersDo these aviation identifiers describe the same thing on this date? Give any combination of a registration (tail number), a Mode-S 24-bit address, an ICAO type designator, an operator name, an airline designator (IATA or
• report_unmet_needTell us what you came looking for and could not get from these tools. Call this when you needed something aviation-related that this toolset did not give you. It is not an error channel and it is not a retry: it is how t
• use_case_landscapeHow many use cases are there, sliced one way? Counts you can quote. `group_by` is one of org_type (16 canonical organisation types: Airport, Airline, Air Navigation Service Provider, Ground Handling, Regulator / Authorit
• search_use_casesWhich aviation AI use cases match this text? Find candidates by keyword. Full-text search (BM25, stemmed) over 6,500 use cases spanning airports, airlines, ANSPs, ground handlers, regulators, manufacturers and more, each
• get_use_caseThe full record for one use case, by id from a search or landscape result. Returns the use-case text; the role that owns it with its description; the organisation type (canonical and as the corpus names it); every data r
• similar_use_casesWhat else in the catalogue is like this use case? Nearest neighbours by meaning. Returns up to 20 use cases closest in embedding space (bge-base cosine over the use-case text), as summaries with a `similarity`. Good for
• data_requirementsWhat data does this use case, role or organisation type need, and how fresh? Three modes. With `use_case_id`: that use case's requirements verbatim -- title, normalised title_family, description, nominal update rate, nor
• trace_data_lineageWhich standard operational messages would evidence this data need? The lineage spine is use case -> data requirement -> requirement family -> standard message type -> data elements. Four modes. With `use_case_id`: that u
• trace_workflowWhat happens before and after this use case, and who hands off to whom? The catalogue is otherwise flat -- role, use case, data requirement -- with no edges. This is the edges: named operational sequences with their step
• easa_ai_frameworkThe EASA AI-level and hazard-class tables, page-cited, to read a screen against. Returns the AI levels (0, 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B: what the system does and how much authority the end user keeps), the hazard classes (H1-H
• scenariosWhich real operational episodes does the catalogue carry, to illustrate use cases with? A scenario is one real day reconstructed from data Airside Labs holds and may publish: FAA SWIM flight plans, FAA NOTAMs, its own AD
• get_scenarioOne real episode end to end: what happened, where and when (UTC), the actors, what it shows and what it must not be read as; the timeline, every event with its actor, source and the reference of the raw record it came fr
• airport_network_integrationWhat level of network integration does this airport have with the EUROCONTROL Network Manager, or with the FAA's TFDM programme, as of a date? Answers with one value: `ani` (Advanced Network Integrated: A-CDM with the hi
• airport_operatorWho operates this airport, which group would take the commercial meeting, and who owns it? Returns operator_name, operator_group (the parent that a sales or partnership conversation lands with, spelled consistently: Aena
• airport_operations_statusIs there a positive, sourced reason this airport is not open for ordinary commercial engagement: closed to civil traffic, in a sanctioned jurisdiction, or a general-aviation field with no scheduled service? Returns `clos
• airport_connectivityHow many nonstop destinations does this airport publish, and in which countries? Returns the count of nonstop destinations from the airport's published destination table, the number resolved to a country, the destination
• airport_size_bandWhich ACI passenger size band is this airport in, on its latest published annual total? Returns the passengers figure, its year, and the band on ACI World's published ASQ size categories: under 2M, 2 to 5M, 5 to 15M, 15
• airport_runwaysWhat runways does this aerodrome publish in its state AIP, with what dimensions, surface, bearings, thresholds and declared distances, and for which AIRAC cycle? Returns every runway the state's export lists for the aero
• route_capacityHow much scheduled capacity is flown nonstop from one airport to another, by whom and on what, over the last N months of BTS T-100 data? Returns monthly departures performed, seats and passengers with the load factor, an
• airport_fleet_mixWhat aircraft types fly from (or into) an airport, how often, with how many seats, and at what load factor, over the last N months of BTS T-100 data? Returns each type's departures performed and share of the airport's de
• submit_suggestionRecord a suggestion about this toolset or its use-case catalogue. No API key is needed for this tool. The suggestion is written as one record into this server's own local feedback store and nothing else happens: no messa
• feedback_statusWhat happened to a suggestion or unmet-need report filed here? No API key is needed. Pass the `fingerprint` from a submit_suggestion or report_unmet_need receipt (12 hex characters). Returns `status`: `shipped` (a person

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