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Client-side package and programs for forwarding ADS-B data to FlightAware
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Airbus A220 aircraft do not show aircraft type #74

Open cemeyer2 opened 3 years ago

cemeyer2 commented 3 years ago

On the page that shows the table of aircraft with details like altitude, etc Airbus A220 aircraft show up with no value in the "Aircraft Type" column.

Clicking on the flight to go to flightaware.com does show that it is an A220, but it does not show up on the piaware UI

cemeyer2 commented 3 years ago

for example, the DAL flights here are both A220 aircraft but show no value

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mutability commented 3 years ago

This is likely to be because the data extraction process used to generate the registration database for SkyAware from FAA data doesn't know about the A220 model numbers (they are listed as, for example, BD-500-1A11 in the FAA registry)

mutability commented 3 years ago

This is fixed upstream and will filter through when the skyaware static database is updated for the next release

cemeyer2 commented 3 years ago

it looks like they now show up as BCS1 whereas other airbus aircraft are A330 or similar. It seems that given this is upstream, this is not something piaware can directly fix, but wanted to get context on the difference

mutability commented 3 years ago

BCS1 is the correct ICAO type designator for an Airbus A220:

Screenshot from 2021-10-02 01-42-51

(it was originally the Bombardier C-Series and was rebranded to Airbus later)

krocheck commented 2 years ago

You'll also see BCS3 for the A220-300. This show correctly for me currently, as I saw a few of both types going in and out of DTW the other day. This can probably be closed.