aid: casa-aviation url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/casa-aviation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) kind: company description: >- The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is Australia's independent statutory aviation safety regulator, established under the Civil Aviation Act 1988. It maintains the Australian Civil Aircraft Register (VH- marks), issues Airworthiness Directives, licenses flight crew and maintenance organisations, certifies air operators, and regulates drone and RPAS operations. CASA sits entirely OUTSIDE the travel distribution chain — it is a safety regulator, not a distributor, so it has no GDS, NDC, channel-manager or OTA position, and airline fare distribution, full-content agreements and consumer disclosure are not CASA functions. Its API posture is split and honest: two genuinely open, no-key, documented bulk data products (the full Airworthiness Directives listing as JSON/CSV and the complete civil aircraft register as a daily CSV, both served from services.casa.gov.au), and one approval-gated partner API — the CASA RPAS Digital Platform at data.casa.rpasplatform.net — whose endpoints are named in public PDFs but require a service account, a signed four-year agreement, a CASA onboarding check-out and a paid Airservices Australia airspace data licence. There is no self-serve developer portal, no OpenAPI, and new RPAS Platform onboarding is currently paused pending Airservices' Flight Information Management System. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Travel - Australia - Aviation - Airports - Government - Regulator - Aviation Safety - Open Data - Drones created: '2026-07-28' modified: '2026-07-28' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: casa-aviation:casa-airworthiness-directives-data name: CASA Airworthiness Directives Data Files description: >- Open, unauthenticated bulk data files covering every current Australian Airworthiness Directive (AD). combinedadweb.json lists all current ADs with aircraft and equipment references; adweb.csv lists all current ADs and folder.csv lists the aircraft and equipment types. Individual AD documents are addressable as PDFs under /airworth/airwd/ADfiles/ by folder and file number. CASA states the JSON file format is subject to change. No API key, no registration and no terms acceptance are required to download. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/airworthiness/airworthiness-directives/data-files-all-airworthiness-directives baseURL: https://services.casa.gov.au tags: - Aviation - Airworthiness - Safety - Open Data - Australia properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/airworthiness/airworthiness-directives/data-files-all-airworthiness-directives - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/airworthiness/airworthiness-directives - type: JSON url: https://services.casa.gov.au/JSON/combinedadweb.json - type: CSV url: https://services.casa.gov.au/airworth/airwd/data/adweb.csv - type: CSV url: https://services.casa.gov.au/airworth/airwd/data/folder.csv - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/casa-aviation-airworthiness-directive.schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/casa-aviation-ad-listing-row.schema.json - type: Examples url: examples/casa-aviation-airworthiness-directives-examples.json - type: AgentSkill name: Look up Australian Airworthiness Directives and fetch the AD document url: skills/casa-aviation-lookup-airworthiness-directives.md - aid: casa-aviation:casa-aircraft-register-data name: Australian Civil Aircraft Register Data Files description: >- The complete Australian Civil Aircraft Register published as a daily comma-delimited data file (acrftreg.csv, approximately 7.6MB) and a zip compressed equivalent (acrftreg.zip, approximately 1MB). CASR 47.030 requires CASA to publish or make available data relating to the civil register; only aircraft currently registered in Australia are included. Records carry VH- registration marks, manufacturer, model, serial number, MTOW, year and country of manufacture, engine and propeller details, ICAO Doc 8643 type designator, type certificate, registration holder and registered operator with address and commencement dates. Coded fields are documented on separate CASA pages. No API key or registration required. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft baseURL: https://services.casa.gov.au/CSV tags: - Aviation - Aircraft - Registration - Open Data - Australia properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft/downloading-and-using-our-data-files - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft/meaning-coded-fields-registered-aircraft - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft/list-coded-fields-registered-aircraft - type: CSV url: https://services.casa.gov.au/CSV/acrftreg.csv - type: Archive url: https://services.casa.gov.au/CSV/acrftreg.zip - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/search-centre/aircraft-register - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/casa-aviation-aircraft-register-row.schema.json - type: Examples url: examples/casa-aviation-aircraft-register-examples.json - type: GettingStarted url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft/downloading-and-using-our-data-files - type: AgentSkill name: Ingest the Australian civil aircraft register url: skills/casa-aviation-ingest-aircraft-register.md - aid: casa-aviation:casa-rpas-digital-platform name: CASA RPAS Digital Platform API description: >- A partner-only API that supplies CASA advisories, notifications and geospatial map data to drone safety applications, and processes Automated Airspace Authorisations for Sydney Harbour (R405A/B) and ten trial controlled aerodromes. Endpoints are named in the public RPAS Platform Operating Rules — advisories.geojson and notifications.json under /casa/data/, plus /casa/gcd and /asa/gcd for geospatial content — and the Operating Rules state the URLs need authentication with a service account. Access requires a written application, acceptance of the RPAS Platform Terms and Conditions, a formal onboarding check-out against the RPAS Platform Test Procedure (two attempts allowed), staging then production credentials issued by CASA, and a paid Airservices Australia airspace data licence sourced independently. CASA has paused onboarding of new providers for the ten trial aerodromes pending Airservices' Flight Information Management System. Not a self-serve API. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.casa.gov.au/drones/industry-initiatives/digital-platform baseURL: https://data.casa.rpasplatform.net tags: - Aviation - Drones - RPAS - Airspace - Partner API - Australia properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/drones/industry-initiatives/digital-platform - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-09/rpas-platform-concept-of-operations.pdf - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/rpas-platform-operating-rules.pdf - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-06/rpas-platform-test-procedure.pdf - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-06/rpas-platform-declaration-compliance.pdf - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-09/rpas-platform-terms-conditions.pdf - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/knowyourdrone/drone-safety-apps - type: AgentSkill name: Qualify for CASA RPAS Digital Platform access url: skills/casa-aviation-rpas-platform-access.md common: - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/casa-aviation-vocabulary.yml - type: Examples url: examples/casa-aviation-aircraft-register-examples.json - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: GettingStarted url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft/downloading-and-using-our-data-files - type: DomainSecurity url: security/casa-aviation-domain-security.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/casa-aviation-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security url: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/reporting-and-accountability/external-security-vulnerability-disclosure-program - type: Authentication url: authentication/casa-aviation-authentication.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/casa-aviation-conventions.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/casa-aviation-lifecycle.yml - type: StatusPage url: https://my.casa.gov.au/outage/ - type: Conformance url: conformance/casa-aviation-conformance.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/casa-aviation-problem-types.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/casa-aviation-data-model.yml - type: Packages url: packages/casa-aviation-packages.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/casa-aviation-llms.txt - type: Website url: https://www.casa.gov.au/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/aircraft-registration/data-files-registered-aircraft - type: Portal url: https://my.casa.gov.au/ - type: Support url: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/contact-us - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-09/rpas-platform-terms-conditions.pdf - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/about-website/privacy-statement - type: Blog url: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/news-media-releases-and-speeches - type: BlogRSS url: https://www.casa.gov.au/rss.xml - type: Contact url: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/contact-us - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/civil-aviation-safety-authority-casa-/ - type: YouTube url: http://www.youtube.com/user/casabriefing - type: Facebook url: https://www.facebook.com/CivilAviationSafetyAuthority - type: Instagram url: https://www.instagram.com/casabriefing maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com