How our airport data works
Where every figure on our airport pages comes from, what we calculate ourselves, and what a missing section means.
Extract from the Teterboro page. Select a number to see where each figure comes from.
Landing essentials
Whether you can land, whether you can refuel, and how customs works here.
Runways
Source: FAA Form 5010.
Data last refreshed September 2026. See our methodology →
- Longest runwayFrom the national registry: FAA Form 5010 in the US, OurAirports in Canada and Mexico.
- FuelStated only when the national registry confirms it. No registry publishes fuel for Canada or Mexico, so the section does not appear there.
- CustomsFrom the CBP list of ports of entry. For an airport without customs, we name the nearest one and its distance.
- Runway tableLength, width and surface as published, longest runway first.
- Source lineEvery factual section names its source at its foot.
- Traffic figureFAA TFMSC count for 2025: business jets on instrument flight plans.
- Provenance lineThe month this page's data was last refreshed, and the link that brings you here.
What these pages are, and why they go this deep
Our 3,751 airport pages cover business aviation airfields in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Each one brings together what a dispatcher checks before sending an aircraft somewhere new: runways, fuel, customs, traffic, climate and the airfields around it.
We built them because catering and trip support go wrong on these details. A runway too short for the planned load, customs 40 NM away, no Jet A on the field, a tower that closes at 10 pm. A broker who knows the field quotes right the first time, and that is the job we do for you.
The pages are a planning reference, not a navigation source. Before any flight, check current NOTAMs and the official publications of the country concerned.
Sources
Every figure on an airport page comes from a public source, named at the foot of the section that uses it.
| Page section | Source | Edition used |
|---|---|---|
| Airport identity, runways, fuel, services, tower, operating remarks (US) | Official sourceFAA Form 5010; FAA Chart Supplement | 28-day cycle effective August 6, 2026 |
| Airport data for Canada and Mexico, runway end coordinates, IATA codes | Open dataOurAirports open data | Snapshot of August 26, 2026 |
| Customs | Official sourceCBP list of ports of entry; Canada Border Services Agency | Published lists, August 2026 |
| Business aviation traffic | Official sourceFAA Traffic Flow Management System Counts (TFMSC) | Calendar year 2025 |
| Climate | Official sourceNOAA NCEI Monthly Climate Normals | 1991-2020 normals |
| Current weather | Live feedNOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR, TAF) | Fetched when you open the page |
| Nearby airfields, nearest customs, runway diagram | Skystar calculationSkystar calculation from official coordinates | See What we calculate |
| Local time | Open dataIANA time zone database | Derived from the airport's coordinates |
For US airports, the FAA registry takes precedence over every other source. OurAirports only fills a field the FAA does not publish, such as the IATA code or runway end coordinates.
Each airport page states the month its data was last refreshed. Registry data is updated from new source editions; current weather is fetched live.
What we calculate
Some figures are not published anywhere. We compute them from the official data above.
Distances are great-circle distances in nautical miles, measured between official reference coordinates. Bearings use an eight-point compass: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW.
For an airport without customs, we name the closest airfield that has it and give the distance.
We group airports into 135 metro areas across the three countries. An airport within 60 NM of a metro area is presented as part of it. Farther airports still appear on the metro page, grouped by distance.
Each runway is drawn to scale from the coordinates of its two ends (see below).
The time zone comes from the airport's coordinates, and the live clock follows daylight saving time.
Beyond 60 NM, airports stay on the metro page but are not presented as part of the area.
Fictional metro area.
Which airports we publish
We publish 3,751 airports: 3,273 in the United States, 378 in Canada and 100 in Mexico.
An airport qualifies when it can realistically receive a business jet. We look at three signals: a runway long enough for business jets, jet fuel on the field, and business aviation traffic counted by the FAA. Several combinations qualify, and measured traffic alone can qualify an airport. Airports where our supplier network already operates are published in all cases.
No page for your airport does not mean we cannot serve it. Send the request from your dashboard and we will source it.
Choices that may surprise you
The climate table shows the average daily maximum for each month. The maximum is what limits takeoff performance.
Climate figures come from the closest station with 1991-2020 normals, usually a few nautical miles away and never more than 25 NM. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast.
TFMSC counts flights on instrument flight plans. Nearly every business jet files one, but visual flights are not counted, so a low count does not mean an empty field.
The FAA counts a foreign flight only when it enters US airspace. For Canadian and Mexican airports, the figure measures traffic to and from the United States, not the airport's total activity.
We state that Jet A is available only when the national registry confirms it.
Runways under 500 ft and helipads are not drawn. Water runways appear in the runway table but not on the diagram.
Why a section is missing
A missing section means missing data, never a missing service.
We show a section only when a source publishes the data behind it.
| Section | United States | Canada | Mexico |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runways | |||
| Runway diagram | |||
| Fuel and services | Not published | Not published | |
| Operating remarks | Not published | Not published | |
| Customs | Not published | ||
| Business aviation traffic | |||
| Climate |
"Not published" means no public registry in that country releases the data in a usable form. Fuel, services and operating remarks come from the FAA registry, which covers US airports only.
Elsewhere, a section drops out for reasons specific to the airport: no weather station close enough, no instrument flight counted in 2025, or incomplete runway coordinates.
If a section is missing for the airport you need, ask us. Checking these points is part of every request we handle.
The runway diagram
The diagram draws each runway at its true length, width and heading, with intersections where they really are. It is built from the published coordinates of each runway end.
Shows
- True length
- Width
- Heading
- Intersections
- Displaced thresholds
Does not show
- Taxiways
- Aprons
- Hold points
- Procedures
- AIRAC updates
It is not an airport chart.
We draw it only when every runway on the field has complete coordinates. Drawing one runway and leaving out another would misrepresent the airfield, so in that case the page shows the runway table alone.
From data to a confirmed order
The data tells you what is on the field. We handle the rest.
Catering, trip support and fuel at any of these airports, with the supplier's price passed through and our fee on its own line.
Report an error
Registries change, and our data can lag behind them. If a figure looks wrong, email contact@skystar.flights with the airport and the section. We will check it against the source and correct the page.