generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: >-
  npm registry, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io and the FlightAware GitHub organization
  (https://github.com/flightaware), probed 2026-09-10
description: >-
  FlightAware publishes NO first-party client SDK for AeroAPI or Firehose on any language package
  registry. What it ships instead is a set of first-party open-source starter applications and
  example programs on GitHub, distributed by clone rather than by package manager, plus one
  unrelated first-party Rust crate. The AeroAPI documentation's own "Development Tools" section
  points developers at importing the OpenAPI into Postman rather than at an SDK, which is
  consistent with this finding.
sdk_finding: no-first-party-registry-sdk
packages:
  - language: rust
    registry: crates.io
    name: egm2008
    url: https://crates.io/crates/egm2008
    install: cargo add egm2008
    official: true
    version: 0.1.0
    published: '2023-11-01'
    source_repo: https://github.com/flightaware/egm2008
    note: >-
      Genuinely first-party — crates.io ownership includes the
      github:flightaware:flightaware-staff team. Earth Gravitational Model (EGM2008) geoid
      library; it is NOT an AeroAPI or Firehose client, so it does not count as an API SDK.
  - language: python
    registry: github
    name: aeroapps
    url: https://github.com/flightaware/aeroapps
    install: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/aeroapps
    official: true
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      "Getting started with FlightAware AeroAPI" — first-party sample applications (FIDS and
      Alerts AeroApps, Python and Java backends, Docker compose). No registry release and no
      version tag, so there is no published version to record; the repository last received a
      push in 2022, which is the only currency signal available for it.
  - language: python
    registry: github
    name: firestarter
    url: https://github.com/flightaware/firestarter
    install: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/firestarter
    official: true
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      "Getting started with FlightAware Firehose" — first-party Python reference client for the
      Firehose streaming feed. Distributed by clone; not published to PyPI, so no registry
      version exists to record.
  - language: java
    registry: github
    name: firehose_examples
    url: https://github.com/flightaware/firehose_examples
    install: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/firehose_examples
    official: true
    version: null
    published: null
    note: First-party Java example programs for the Firehose service. Not published to Maven Central.
  - language: csharp
    registry: github
    name: flightxml3_examples
    url: https://github.com/flightaware/flightxml3_examples
    install: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/flightxml3_examples
    official: true
    version: null
    published: null
    note: First-party C# examples for the legacy FlightXML3 SOAP/JSON API. Not published to NuGet.
  - language: ruby
    registry: github
    name: flightxml2-client-ruby
    url: https://github.com/flightaware/flightxml2-client-ruby
    install: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/flightxml2-client-ruby
    official: true
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      First-party Ruby client for the legacy FlightXML2 SOAP API, last pushed in 2010. Never
      published to RubyGems — rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/flightxml.json and .../flightaware.json
      both 404. Historical interest only.
  - language: typescript
    registry: npm
    name: flightaware
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/flightaware
    install: npm install flightaware
    official: false
    version: 0.1.0-alpha.3
    published: '2025-09-16'
    note: >-
      Describes itself as "The official TypeScript library for the Flightaware API" and sets its
      npm author name to "Flightaware", but FIRST-PARTY COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED: the declared
      repository is github.com/tonybruess/flightaware-typescript (a personal account, not the
      flightaware org) and the sole npm maintainer is a personal gmail address. No FlightAware
      documentation page references it. Recorded as official:false pending provider confirmation.
registries_probed:
  - {registry: npm, query: 'flightaware, aeroapi', result: 'one unverified third-party package; no @flightaware scope'}
  - {registry: pypi, query: 'flightaware, aeroapi, flightaware-aeroapi', result: '404 — no first-party package'}
  - {registry: rubygems, query: 'flightaware, flightxml', result: '404 — no first-party gem'}
  - {registry: crates.io, query: egm2008, result: 'first-party (flightaware-staff team owned)'}
  - {registry: buf.build, query: flightaware, result: 'no published protobuf modules'}