# FAA Charts

Read-only FAA sectional, terminal, IFR, and helicopter chart tiles and product metadata.

## Access

- Kind: tile_service
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for public chart products and tiles.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: operational

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/llms.txt
- OpenAPI: https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/openapi.json
- Status: https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-faacharts
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/faa-charts

## Capabilities

- aviation-charts
- pmtiles
- raster-tiles
- tilejson

## Provenance and freshness

- Federal Aviation Administration: Tiles derived from publicly distributed sectional, terminal area, IFR, and helicopter chart products; availability and effective cycles should be confirmed against FAA publications. (https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/)

Update cadence: FAA 56-day visual-chart release cycle.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (55/100): The public tile service publishes OpenAPI, llms.txt, status, and direct TileJSON metadata, while remaining excluded from the MCP callable inventory.

## Examples

### Sectional TileJSON

Retrieve the direct TileJSON document for the latest New York sectional chart cycle.

```http
GET https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/sectional-new-york/latest/tiles.json
```