Aircraft Registration System

The Aircraft Registration System, also known as the Aircraft Registry or AVS Registry, was developed to help the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aviation Safety (AVS) meet its responsibilities for the certification and registration of aircraft under 49 United States Code (U.S.C.) § 44103. The Aircraft Registry serves as the national repository for aircraft registration records and provides the central services necessary for control of these records, which are used by FAA to analyze safety data and manage time-intensive processes such as examination activities. The FAA previously published a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, because the Aircraft Registry records contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on individuals registering aircraft - see Airmen/ Aircraft Registry Modernization System and Aircraft Registration PIAs. The FAA is updating the PIA to reflect changes to the system that include an update to the governing System of Records Notice (SORN) DOT/FAA 801 “Aviation Registration Records”, August 9, 2023, 88 FR 53951 and to note Aircraft Registry is exchanging data with the United States Agent Service (USAS) Portal. The airman certification portion of the Aircraft Registry is addressed in a separate PIA named Airman Certification System.