ja_user

I am trying to fill out some info on flightmemory. Is there any way to look up the equipment used on a flight number 6 months ago, or three years ago?

For instance, I would like to know the equipment on AAL1718 on 4/10/2007 and AAL 1829 on 4/12/2007.



I assume that there is a FAA or related .gov website that will show the info, but apparently I am googling for the wrong phrases.

sinanju

Flightaware.com gives paying customers access to US data back to June 2005. There is a free trial. I'm not aware of a free site.

afurman

I just checked April Timetable and this is what is listed.

1817 - M83
1718 - M80

Bill_Luv2Fly

For future reference, you can use

http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_...ledStatistics/

to get the fleet numbers of past AA domestic flights (as well as for many other airlines). It's the online access to the database compiled by the Department of Transportation. Other options, which may help you for some international flights are

http://www.acarsd.org/acars_search.html

http://www.antonakis.co.uk/acars.php?page=request

NOTE: The DOT's database almost always lists the fleet number for AA flights (the designator on the nose gear door and on the lower-half of the front of the fuselage, e.g. 4WT). If you are interested in registration numbers (N-numbers below the tail of the aircraft), I don't know of an easy way to find the registration number from the fleet number. There used to be an online database that cross-referenced such numbers, but I can't find it anymore.

pixpixpix

Flightstats.com has free accounts.



AA1718

ZakkW

Archive.org is the ultimate web site for finding past versions of previous web sites. The link for AA timetables would thus be:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...timetable.com/

or

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...ble.com/aa.pdf

Good luck; the results and dates are sometimes hit or miss.

ZakkW