generated: '2026-07-28'
method: derived
status: candidate
source: openapi/faa-airport-status-web-service-openapi.yml, openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml
search_note: SEARCHED first and found nothing. The FAA publishes NO Model Context Protocol server. No
  /.well-known/ai-plugin.json on any FAA host (all 404 — see well-known/faa-well-known.yml), no MCP entry
  in the Gravitee portal catalog, no mcp.faa.gov, and nothing under github.com/faa-swim. Every FAA-branded
  MCP server on the public registries (aviation-mcp, mcp-faa-delays and similar) is third-party and is
  deliberately NOT recorded here.
server:
  name: faa
  published_by_faa: false
  transport: null
  url: null
  note: CANDIDATE ONLY. This is a derived tool surface showing what an MCP server over the FAA's open
    APIs would expose. Nothing below is hosted by the FAA.
scope:
  included:
  - FAA Airport Status Web Service (ASWS) — unauthenticated, CC0
  - FAA Aeronautic Product Release API (APRA) — unauthenticated, CC0
  excluded:
  - api: FAA Air Carrier PRD API
    reason: Write API for federally mandated pilot records under 14 CFR Part 111, restricted by operating-certificate
      class and carrying pilot PII. Unsafe to expose as an agent tool.
  - api: FAA Safety Assurance System (SAS) API
    reason: Write API carrying passenger PII (name, address, phone, email, PNR locator) with no idempotency
      contract. Unsafe to expose as an agent tool.
  - api: FAA NOTAM API / NOTAM Management Service (NMS)
    reason: Credentialed; no public OpenAPI to ground tool schemas in.
  rationale: Only read-only, unauthenticated, CC0-licensed operations are proposed as tools. See agentic-access/faa-agentic-access.yml
    for the per-operation execution contract.
tools:
- name: get_airport_delays
  description: Get the current national airport delay summary — ground delay programs, ground stops, arrival/departure
    delays and closures — for the ~40 major US airports the FAA covers.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-airport-status-web-service-openapi.yml#getDelays
  input_schema_source: no parameters
  read_only: true
- name: get_airport_status
  description: Get the current status and delay detail for one US airport by IATA code.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-airport-status-web-service-openapi.yml#getAirportStatus
  input_schema_source: path parameter airportCode (string, required)
  read_only: true
- name: get_nasr_edition
  description: Get the current or next NASR 28-day subscription edition number and edition date.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getNASREdition
  input_schema_source: query parameter edition (current | next, default current)
  read_only: true
- name: get_nasr_subscription
  description: Get the download link for the NASR 28-day subscription.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getNASRSubscription
  input_schema_source: query parameter edition (current | next, default current)
  read_only: true
- name: get_terminal_procedures_edition
  description: Get the US Terminal Procedures Publication (dTPP) edition information for the US or one
    state.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getTPPEdition
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_terminal_procedures_release
  description: Get terminal procedure chart download URLs for the US or one state; supports the changeset
    edition for charts changed since the previous release.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getTPPRelease
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition (current | next | changeset), geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_sectional_chart_info
  description: Get VFR sectional chart edition information by chart geoname.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getSectionalInfo
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_sectional_chart
  description: Get VFR sectional chart download links by chart geoname and format.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getSectionalChart
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_terminal_area_chart_info
  description: Get VFR terminal area chart (TAC) edition information.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getTACEdition
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_terminal_area_chart
  description: Get VFR terminal area chart (TAC) download links.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getTACRelease
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname
  read_only: true
- name: get_ifr_enroute_edition
  description: Get IFR enroute chart edition information.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getIFREnrouteEdition
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname, seriesType
  read_only: true
- name: get_ifr_enroute_charts
  description: Get IFR enroute chart download links by format (tiff georeferenced or pdf), geoname (US,
    Alaska, Pacific, Caribbean) and series type (Low, High, Area).
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getIFREnrouteRelease
  input_schema_source: query parameters edition, format, geoname, seriesType
  read_only: true
- name: get_cifp_edition
  description: Get Coded Instrument Flight Procedures (CIFP) edition date and number.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getCIFPEdition
  input_schema_source: query parameter edition
  read_only: true
- name: get_cifp_release
  description: Get the Coded Instrument Flight Procedures (CIFP) release download link.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getCIFPRelease
  input_schema_source: query parameter edition
  read_only: true
- name: get_daily_obstacle_file_edition
  description: Get the Daily Digital Obstacle File (DDOF) edition information.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getDDOFEdition
  input_schema_source: no parameters
  read_only: true
- name: get_daily_obstacle_file
  description: Get the Daily Digital Obstacle File (DDOF) download link.
  source_operation: openapi/faa-aeronautic-product-release-api-openapi.yml#getDDOFRelease
  input_schema_source: no parameters
  read_only: true
excluded_operations:
- operations:
  - getDERSRelease
  - getDERSEdition
  reason: Marked deprecated:true in the spec; the Digital Enroute Supplement is no longer published by
    the FAA and both operations return 404 only.
notes:
- Every tool above inherits its real input contract from the referenced operation's parameters in the
  OpenAPI — no input schema was invented.
- Both source APIs are Creative Commons Zero (CC0) and answer unauthenticated, so a server built from
  this manifest needs no credential handling.
- Callers should hit the /info tool first and only then the matching /chart tool — APRA publishes on the
  28-day airspace cycle and `edition=next` 404s until the next edition is staged.
deployment:
  mode: none
  verified: derived
  tools: 16
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census