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This is a wiki of resources that can be used to identify aircraft registration numbers for historical flights. Please add to it if you know of other resources:

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Global
http://flightaware.com/
http://data.flight24.com
http://www.libhomeradar.org/databasequery/
http://www.antonakis.co.uk/acars.php?page=request
http://www.acarsd.org/acars_search.html
http://www.landings.com/
https://planefinder.net/data/
https://www.flightera.net/en/
https://www.airfleets.net/home/

US Flights
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ONTIME/Departures.aspx

Regional / Airport / Airline specific
http://www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/ (LHR and LGW)
http://www.thebasource.com/flighttracker.html (BA)
http://wandr.me/bts/ - Covers domestic US flights as reported to the DoT's RITA/BTS group (above) with an easier to use UI
http://ottspotters.blogspot.hk/ - UK/Atlantic ferry flights, not searchable
http://www.lbaspotters.net/ - LBA
http://www.tasmanchester.com/Arrival_logs.html - MAN (recent arrivals)
http://www.egph.co.uk/ - EDI
http://www.egpf.info/ - GLA
http://www.egpk.com/ - PIK
http://www.planeboys.de/ - Berlin (TXL, SXF, THF) airport movements

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http://casper.frontier.nl/
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/data_and...ics/index.html

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Nov 13, 2016, 6:07 am

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I have been using Planefinder for a few years. It's generally very good, but history is only available for a few weeks / months in the past, so don't leave it too long to check.

https://planefinder.net/data/ (added to the Wiki)

Nov 13, 2016, 9:03 pm

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Moving this over to the Travel Tools forum for further discussion. Thanks. /JY1024, TravelBuzz co-moderator

Dec 11, 2016, 8:54 am

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Spent US 2.99 for the expanded version from wandr.me supposedly including international flights, only to discover I can't find a single international flight.

edit: Contacted Seth and got a refund for the charge. Apparently the international tail number data is incredibly sparse, hence it is just a small extra you'd be getting as a member, it's not something you should solely be paying for.
Thanks for the quick and honest communication Seth.

Last edited by The Wolf; Dec 11, 2016 at 2:31 pm

Dec 11, 2016, 7:58 pm

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Came across this site earlier today: http://www.dfld.de/Mess/StatAirportT...2.2014&R=9&S=1.

Seems to have some content from German airports but I cannot really figure it out.

Dec 12, 2016, 12:30 pm

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http://www.thebasource.com/flighttracker.html
This website is so useful! I was able to locate the tail numbers for two BA flights I took in 2013.

Dec 12, 2016, 1:28 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sbm12

Came across this site earlier today: http://www.dfld.de/Mess/StatAirportT...2.2014&R=9&S=1.

Seems to have some content from German airports but I cannot really figure it out.

I think this is only for Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ)

Mar 27, 2018, 6:48 pm

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None of these seem to provide historical data from many years ago where you can input flight number and date to pull up registration number...or am I missing something?

Mar 28, 2018, 8:13 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyTeam777

None of these seem to provide historical data from many years ago where you can input flight number and date to pull up registration number...or am I missing something?

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics link is out of date. Try this one:

https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ONTIME/Departures.aspx

Flight info for US flights since 1987, but Tail Numbers were logged starting Jan 1995.

SkyTeam777 and FastTrak2Elite like this.

Last edited by mmayer; Mar 28, 2018 at 8:21 am

Apr 9, 2018, 3:57 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mmayer

I was delighted when I read this! Unfortunately the two flights I have been long looking for are missing

Looking for US Airways flights DCA-BUF on Sep 1, 2007 (it was in the morning, but only an afternoon flight is listed) and BUF-LGA on the next day (none listed). Thanks anyway!