NReg Database Derived From FAA Records

An Australian company has developed an app that will bring the FAA's aircraft registration database to your iPhone. Wavefront Technology released the app ... called NReg ... on Monday. The app displays N aircraft registration information, sourced from a hierarchical database derived from information published on a weekly basis by the FAA. The FAA data is published as a flat file spreadsheet. Wavefront's software organizes this information into a structured database, which is accessible over the net from the NReg client app running on the iPhone.

Wavefront claims that the structured database implementation is far more powerful than a flat file. NReg allows users to navigate up, down and across the hierarchy. For example having found a specific aircraft, the user can then find details of the owner, and then details of ALL aircraft that the owner owns. Or the app allows a search for information about the engine in a specific aircraft, and then finds all aircraft which have that same engine.

For each database record which can be viewed in NReg on the iPhone, a single tap connects to Google which displays everything the Internet has to know about that item. For example, you can find details of an aircraft or its owner from the NReg database, and can then forward that information to Google which returns a general Internet search result.

NReg is supported by a web site which provides product information, customer support, and a full user manual.

FMI: www.everyplane.com.au