Sprinkle

What we're building

Aviation data is fragmented. Civil registries are run per-country; ICAO publishes taxonomy; OurAirports collates aerodromes; OpenAIP holds airspace and obstacles. Each source is partial. Cross-referencing them by hand is busy-work nobody wants to do.

Sprinkle reconciles ~1,000,000 entities across ~12 authoritative sources into one consistent graph: a tail number resolves to a manufacturer, the manufacturer to a family, the family to a model, the model to an ICAO type, the type to a performance envelope and the engines fitted to it. Every airport links to its runways, navaids, frequencies, and containing airspace.

Who it's for

• Pilots & dispatchers — airport detail, runway specs, navaids, ATC frequencies, airspace.
• Buyers, brokers, and operators — tail-number lookups with full lineage and fleet history.
• Maintenance & MRO — model and variant references with engine fitments and certification authority.
• Aviation enthusiasts — every type designator, every airline callsign, every airspace polygon.

How it's built

Sprinkle ingests open civil registries (FAA, Transport Canada, CASA, ANAC, NZ CAA), OurAirports, OpenAIP, OpenFlights, GeoNames, Wikidata, and ICAO Doc 8643 into a PostgreSQL database with PostGIS. Cross-source dedup runs nightly. Every record carries provenance. Read more on the data sources page.

What's next

The parts catalogue ships once the parts-schema-overhaul lands (28k+ Hawker parts, 69k IPC items waiting). Public flight history follows the multi-source ADS-B cross-check (Q3 2026). A listings marketplace for buyers and sellers comes after the auth layer is in place.