resolve_registration
Resolve registration
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Which 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, an embedded resolved aircraft type, operator, owner,
serial number and Mode-S hex address.
A registration is a slot rather than a permanent name: marks are
surrendered and reissued. N803AL was one airframe from 1987 to 1993 and a
different one, a 787-8, from 2015; N264CP moved to a different Mode-S
address in 2015. Pass as_of for any historical question. Where the date
falls between two holders the tool returns unresolved, reports the
country from the nationality mark, and offers both airframes as alternates.
When the tail is unknown but the nationality mark is recognised, the
response carries a partial object with the country of registry at
confidence around 0.5. That is a partial answer, not a resolution: the
aircraft is still unidentified.
Coverage is not global. An unresolved registration means this dataset does
not hold it, NOT that the aircraft does not exist. Do NOT infer that an
aircraft is fictitious from an unresolved result, and do NOT use this for
airworthiness, lease status or current position.
Reading confidence: 1.0 means an exact unique match on an unambiguous identifier for the as_of date. 0.7-0.99 means a unique match reached through normalisation, an alias or a historical record. 0.4-0.69 means the best of several plausible candidates and alternates is populated -- prefer asking the user over picking one. Below 0.4 is speculative: do not act on it.
status is resolved, ambiguous or unresolved. An unresolved answer is a real result, not an error: it means this dataset cannot identify the thing, and inventing one would be worse. Every field in best has a citation in provenance. When the thing exists and this dataset could not identify it, report_unmet_need with gap_kind unresolved is how that gap gets prioritised -- report it, then tell the user you could not find it.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| registration | string | yes | |
| as_of | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"registration": {
"title": "Registration",
"type": "string"
},
"as_of": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "As Of"
}
},
"required": [
"registration"
],
"type": "object",
"title": "resolve_registrationArguments"
}