Data-led story resources
Journalist data room
Checked datasets, local angles and complete downloadable evidence behind Sprinkle’s aviation stories. Search a page, inspect the methodology and take the full CSV.
Oldest actively registered aircraft in every US state
Search all 50 states, inspect tied records and download the underlying FAA-derived data.
LiveWhere planes retire
State rankings by the recorded age of actively registered aircraft.
LiveClass of 1926
The aircraft reaching a recorded age of 100 this year.
LiveSecret airstrip down the road
A searchable guide to nearby open grass runways.
LiveZombie Register
A state scorecard of stale and questionable FAA registrations.
LiveAgeing Wings Census
Fleet-age rankings by state and aircraft category.
LiveLast of the Line
Aircraft types represented by only one active registration.
LiveBusiest Mailbox in Aviation
The registration addresses attached to unusually large fleets.
LiveAviation Deserts
The populated communities furthest from a usable runway.
LiveLast of the Warbirds
A checked type-by-type census of WWII-era aircraft.
LiveRunway Reality Checker
Compare recorded aircraft requirements with airport runway lengths.
LiveCloser to a Runway Than an ER
Municipalities at least five straight-line miles closer to a qualifying public runway than a located CMS emergency hospital.
LivePlane Costs Less Than a House
Checked active aircraft listings below their state’s official median home value.
LivePrivate Jet Capitals
A registered-owner city ranking with population and owner-concentration safeguards.
LiveNo Carfax at 5,000 Feet
Current aircraft listings matched to NTSB records on both registration and serial number.
LiveGhost Airports
A conservative reporting shortlist combining FAA grants, TAF activity, based aircraft and Sprinkle-tracked movements.
LiveCounty’s Air Force
Every US county ranked by valid FAA registrations per 100,000 residents.
LiveSprinkle GA Market Report
A monthly snapshot of the fleet, asking-price listings, demand signals and tracked flight activity.
LiveUsed Aircraft Price Benchmark
A current asking-price benchmark by aircraft segment, with review-flagged records excluded.
Screened trackerAircraft Listing Market Tracker
Title-confirmed listing-to-model links and a complete taxonomy-review queue, with sub-threshold buyer demand withheld.
Screened trackerBusiness-Jet Supply Tracker
Title-confirmed jet-family listing supply, with taxonomy conflicts and sub-threshold demand kept out of the ranking.
Official benchmark$100 Hamburger Flight-Cost Benchmark
A fixed two-hour FAA Part 91 cost comparison by aircraft category, before food and route-specific fees.
Live shortlistHidden Gem Airfields
Up to three evidence-based finalists per state, with no winner named until editorial review.
Review baselineFAA Ownership Structure Review
State-level registrant types and explicit trust/LLC wording, without an unsupported anonymity score.
Review queueOrphan Fleet Review
Material active fleets with older manufacture-year evidence, queued for cited company-status review.
Readiness directoryDealer Verification Readiness
Claimed, public dealer profiles prepared for editorial checks, with no awards or service-quality claims implied.
Official baselineAir Ambulance Official Data Baseline
Current Medicare payment benchmarks and FAA industry totals, clearly separated from provider charges and patient bills.
Screening datasetIn the Path of the Storm
Conservatively inferred aircraft bases compared with 20 seasons of official NHC hurricane tracks.
Official-source baselineRecent UK Jet Register Actions
A narrow CAA and FAA review, without an unsupported offshore league table or migration claim.
Identity reviewFlight-Training Fleet Identity Review
The official FAA school baseline and exact reasons no training-fleet age ranking can yet be published.
Collection readinessHistory Collector Maturity
Exact snapshot counts, publication gates and earliest possible dates for eight time-dependent ideas.
What comes next
Every tracked idea and its exact data requirements
See what is live, what is collecting, what is still missing, the source and the proposed journalist output for the full work queue.