Aviation teardown & parts intelligence

Know what's about to become inventory — before the RFQ lands.

Datawings tracks every airline and MRO shop's fleet, engines, and finances against public registries, regulators, and trade press — and tells your sales team which one is about to need parts, before the rest of the market notices.

287
companies tracked
615
confirmed engine assertions
428,400+
aircraft registry records checked for a match
29
confirmed teardowns tracked
12
independent signal types
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The four ways a week gets wasted

You are not short of leads. You are short of leads that are true.

A parts broker or MRO sales lead loses the week the same four ways. Each one is answered below with a sourced fact, not a feature.

01

You pitched the wrong engine shop.

A plausible engine badge sent your rep to sell LEAP support to a GTF fleet. Datawings keeps every ambiguous type unconfirmed until a registry or a published source names the engine — 615 confirmed, 339 still honestly unconfirmed.

02

You heard about the teardown after the parts were gone.

By the time a retirement is forwarded around the office, the engines and gear are spoken for. Datawings lists the airframes a licensed dismantler has already torn down and attributed to the operator — 29 right now.

03

An AD landed and the customer told you about it.

A directive names an engine, not an operator. Datawings matches each one to every tracked operator with confirmed exposure, so the call list exists before the rule is final.

04

The buyer asks where you got that.

Every fact links to the article, filing, or registry it came from, and anything computed is labeled computed. You walk in with the source, not a hunch.

Live from the database — 3 September 2026

Six real signals, exactly as your team would see them.

Copied from production, not touched up. Every card links to its source — the one without a link says so, because it came from diffing our own FAA registry snapshots.

Real signals, as of 3 September 2026 6 of 8,800+
Tail left the register
UrgentTail N184DN (767) deregistered by the FAA on 18 August 2026 — registration cancelled
Delta Air Lines · · FAA deregistration file, read directly — no press release involved

A 30-year-old 767 leaving the US register is the earliest honest sign an airframe is heading for sale, export or part-out — before anyone writes a story about it.

Confirmed teardown
UrgentConfirmed teardown: Swiss A340-300 (MSN 169)
Swiss · AELS

A licensed dismantler has already taken this airframe apart and named the operator — a completed fact you can call on today, not an announced retirement.

Confirmed teardown
UrgentConfirmed teardown: Croatia Airlines A320-200 (MSN 258)
Croatia Airlines · AELS

A ceo-generation A320 already dismantled and attributed to its real last operator — exactly the airframe generation the neo headlines ignore.

Airworthiness directive
UrgentProposed AD: RR Trent XWB
27 tracked operators with confirmed exposure — Finnair, Lufthansa, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Cathay Pacific + 22 more · · Federal Register

One proposed AD matched to 27 tracked operators with a confirmed Trent XWB on an A350 — the full call list exists before the rule is even final.

Registrant change
UrgentUnited Airlines is the new registered owner of tail 61111 (787), previously registered to 'BOEING CO'
United Airlines · · Own FAA registry snapshot diff — no external source

A 787 moved from Boeing's name to United's — caught the same day by diffing the FAA registry, not by waiting for a press release.

Fleet news
Embraer celebrates delivery of its 2,000th E-Jet
Azul Brazilian Airlines · · AviTrader

A new E195-E2 on Azul's fleet is a PW1900G engine on the account — the right shop to call for that engine family, and a maintenance relationship still up for grabs.

That is 6 of more than 8,800 live signals across 287 tracked companies right now. The rest sit behind a login — book the 10-minute call and we will pull the ones on your own target fleet, live. Already a customer? Log in.

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What left a register, what got torn down, which directives landed, which contracts were signed — the same kind of cards as above, once a week. Confirm by email; unsubscribe in one click.

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Fleet news4
Leadership change4
Grounding0
Fleet retirement1
Confirmed teardown29
Financial distress5
MRO contract expiring0
Registrant change25
Tail left the registernew
Aging fleet26
AD–operator matches8,747
Poaching alert1

Twelve independent detectors, live counts as of 3 September 2026 (the newest, a tail leaving its register, starts counting tonight) — some fire constantly (AD matching), others sit at zero until a real event happens. See the full platform →

How it thinks

It never sends you on a wasted call.

No LLM at query time — every fact traces back to a registry, a regulator, or a published source, and when the data doesn't confirm something, it says so instead of sending your team to pitch on a guess.

Never call on the wrong engine family

Ambiguous types stay unconfirmed until a registry or a source names the engine — never a false "GTF" badge sending your team to the wrong shop.

Walk into every call with a real source

Published facts link to the article or filing they came from. Anything we derived — like an aging-fleet window — is labeled computed.

No AI guesses — ever

A scheduled pipeline collects, normalizes, and de-duplicates structured data. Nothing is synthesized on the way to your screen.

615 confirmed · 339 unconfirmed — 64% of every aircraft type with more than one possible engine resolved to a real, cited source right now. The other 36% is labeled unconfirmed, not guessed and not hidden — most fleet databases don't show you this number at all.

Turkish Airlines Airbus A350 rotating during takeoff, nose gear just clearing the runway
Airbus A350-941
Turkish Airlines
RR Trent XWB
  • Airbus A350-941
  • Turkish Airlines
  • RR Trent XWB
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Every surface in the product — the Radar, shop-visit pipeline, lessor bundles, PMA velocity, Part-145 search →

Real coverage, not a promise

30 government registries, scraped every night.

Every highlighted country is a live government source feeding tail-level engine confirmation. Click one for the authority behind it.

Active government registry Not yet covered
Datawings data coverage map Base map author: Al MacDonald. Editor: Fritz Lekschas. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Country paths annotated with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

Base map: simple-world-map by Al MacDonald & Fritz Lekschas (CC BY-SA 3.0). Fiji has an active registry too but isn’t part of this base map’s geometry — see every registry named on the data page.

287 companies tracked — 237 airlines, 46 MRO shops, 4 lessors — including

  • Finnair
  • Lufthansa
  • British Airways
  • Air France
  • KLM
  • Swiss
  • Delta Air Lines
  • United Airlines
  • Qantas
  • Turkish Airlines
  • Cathay Pacific
  • IndiGo
  • Lufthansa Technik
  • MTU Maintenance
  • ST Engineering Aerospace
  • AerCap Holdings N.V.

Every source, named →

A generation nobody's mapping

The ceo fleet is retiring. Most of the industry is still selling the neo story.

A320/A321/A319ceo — the CFM56-5B and V2500 generation — is still a huge share of the world's flying fleet: old enough to need real parts support, young enough that nobody has built a tool around it. The near-term teardown opportunity is in the generation already flying today.

41
confirmed ceo-generation engine assignments, across 19 airlines
187
more ceo-generation pairs already identified, still being mapped
Gutted aircraft fuselage interior with the cabin lining stripped away and structural ribs exposed
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Why any of this matters

Every teardown starts as somebody's favorite aircraft.

For an enthusiast, this is the saddest day in an airframe's life — the fuselage is worthless the moment it looks like this. For a parts buyer, it's the opposite: the engines, the avionics, and the landing gear just became available, and whoever hears about it first gets the best pick.

Datawings exists to make sure that's you.

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