Aviation country reference data

At a glance

Publisher

OurAirports

Jurisdiction

Global

Publisher updates

Publisher exports nightly; monitor daily

SourceFinch checks

Daily by default

Records per run

249 in the latest run

Record key

code

Acquired from

Publisher's public bulk file or feed: https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/countries.csv

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 6, 2026

Verified since

October 6, 2026

Last green run

October 6, 2026

What the data contains

Collects every row in the OurAirports countries.csv reference table. Countries describe the publisher’s country coverage, including country codes used in airport and navaid records. The native code is the record key. Numeric internal IDs remain separate, and local codes retain leading zeros. Names, continent codes, alternate keywords and reference URLs are preserved as supplied, including Unicode text and publisher-specific classifications. This is geographic reference data, not a business registry, live airport status feed or authoritative geopolitical classification. The publisher provides no guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use. SourceFinch is independent of OurAirports. Publisher code changes appear as removed and added records. Internal numeric IDs are documented by the publisher as persistent even when codes change. Coverage includes publisher country-like entities and some unofficial non-ISO codes.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field code identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 249 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 6, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "code": "AD",
    "name": "Andorra",
    "keywords": "Andorran airports",
    "continent": "EU",
    "ourairports_id": 302672,
    "wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra"
  },
  {
    "code": "AE",
    "name": "United Arab Emirates",
    "keywords": "UAE,مطارات في الإمارات العربية المتحدة",
    "continent": "AS",
    "ourairports_id": 302618,
    "wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates"
  },
  {
    "code": "AF",
    "name": "Afghanistan",
    "keywords": null,
    "continent": "AS",
    "ourairports_id": 302619,
    "wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan"
  },
  {
    "code": "AG",
    "name": "Antigua and Barbuda",
    "keywords": "Antiguan airports",
    "continent": "NA",
    "ourairports_id": 302722,
    "wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda"
  },
  {
    "code": "AI",
    "name": "Anguilla",
    "keywords": null,
    "continent": "NA",
    "ourairports_id": 302723,
    "wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 2a9dbee691125b0cdb8ceb5fe227c48c903f99c488963b8e53e2ab366521c639.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is b7ba607e65847bbc7bcc658730f3289e04dc34808b313ac756d2032df33a0944, timestamped October 6, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

OurAirports releases all downloadable data to the Public Domain and explicitly permits creating a competing airport website. Credit is welcomed but not required. No guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use. This recipe only collects geographical CSV reference tables, not comments or user profiles.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

2

Green

100%

Failed

0

Median run time

0.7 s

Latest run

success, October 6, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 6, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "Aviation country reference data",
  "url": "https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/countries.csv",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "csv",
    "items": "*",
    "fields": {
      "code": "code",
      "name": "name",
      "keywords": "keywords",
      "continent": "continent",
      "ourairports_id": "id",
      "wikipedia_link": "wikipedia_link"
    },
    "required": [
      "code",
      "name"
    ],
    "csv": {
      "delimiter": ",",
      "header": true,
      "encoding": "utf-8"
    },
    "types": {
      "ourairports_id": "integer"
    }
  },
  "schedule": "daily",
  "key_field": "code"
}

{
  "name": "Aviation country reference data",
  "url": "https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/countries.csv",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "csv",
    "items": "*",
    "fields": {
      "code": "code",
      "name": "name",
      "keywords": "keywords",
      "continent": "continent",
      "ourairports_id": "id",
      "wikipedia_link": "wikipedia_link"
    },
    "required": [
      "code",
      "name"
    ],
    "csv": {
      "delimiter": ",",
      "header": true,
      "encoding": "utf-8"
    },
    "types": {
      "ourairports_id": "integer"
    }
  },
  "key_field": "code",
  "schedule": "daily",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "ourairports-countries",
    "version_id": "24a13e56-87ac-442f-b073-fbd10013878c"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/ourairports-countries -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get ourairports-countries --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("ourairports-countries");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor Aviation country reference data: get_catalog_source ourairports-countries,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default daily schedule this source uses about 30 runs a month, which fits the Free plan's 300 runs. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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