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About OurAirports

OurAirports is a free site where visitors can explore the world's airports, read other people's comments, and leave their own. The help pages have information to help you get started.

The site is dedicated to both passengers and pilots. You can create your own, personal map of the airports you've visited and share that map with other people. You can find the closest airports to your home airport, and find the ones that you haven't visited yet. Find every airport in a country or region. Or go to The Big Map and zoom into to any spot in the world to see where the airports are.

David Megginson
David Megginson, Founder, OurAirports

Credits

This site was created by David Megginson, a private pilot, frequent airline passenger, and owner of a small XML consulting company. David blogs about flying in Land and Hold Short.

Of course, this site takes advantage of many other people's work. Special thanks to ...

  • the U.S. government for providing free airport data through the FAA and the now-discontinued (and much-missed) DAFIF;
  • George Plews for maintaining an up-to-date data list of all Canadian airports and seaplane bases;
  • Marc Wick at Geonames for permission to run thousands of batch queries against his geolocation APIs;
  • all the contributors who have supplied airport data to Paul Tomblin's navaid.com site;
  • all the contributors who have supplied airport data to the SoaringWeb.org and Great Circle Mapper sites;
  • the list of North Korean airports at the FAS report;
  • Raul Robledo, for information on thousands of Brazilian airports.
  • the Kwik Navigation Flight Planner site, which contains information about hundreds of Australian airports;
  • the many authors of Wikipedia for creating and maintaining so many useful geographical and aeronautical lists;
  • Google Maps for providing a free, high-quality mapping API and geocoder; and
  • all the passengers and pilots who have sent airport data, corrections, and comments to OurAirports.