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Transport & ShippingMCP serverFirst audited Nov 13, 2026

Airside Labs Aviation Tools

Aviation identity resolution and an AI use-case atlas, with provenance and temporal validityThe vendor's description, from its MCP Registry listing.

Passed public checksAudited Nov 13, 2026

Every public check ran and passed. Public audit: we connect as an AI client would, list the tools and check what they say. We do not run them. How we audit

Does it work?
YesConnected in 178 ms.
Sign-up?
None neededIt answered without any account or key.
Can it change things?
YesSome tools say they can change things. Your AI client should ask you first.
Endpointhttps://mcp.airsidelabs.com/mcp

Website Streamable HTTP · protocol 2025-11-25 · server version 1.3.0

What we checked, the evidence, and the tools it offers.

What we checked

Security

  • Passed: Connections are encrypted (HTTPS).

  • Passed: No hidden instructions found in tool text.

Safety labels

  • Note: 2 tools are labelled as able to change things.

    Expected for tools that send, write or buy. Your AI client should ask before calling them.

    • report_unmet_need
    • submit_suggestion

  • Passed: Every tool says whether it only reads or can change things.

Tools

  • Passed: 29 tools listed.

  • Passed: Every tool describes its inputs with a valid schema.

Protocol

  • Passed: The MCP handshake works (Streamable HTTP).

  • Passed: Protocol version 2025-11-25 (latest).

  • Passed: Unknown requests are refused.

Connection

  • Passed: The server responds.

Tools (29)

As the server describes them. The labels are the server's own: it says whether each tool only reads or can change things.

  • resolve_airportWhich aerodrome does this airport code or name refer to on a given date? Accepts an IATA three-letter code, an ICAO four-letter code, an airport name fragment or a city name. Returns the aerodrome w…Read-only
  • resolve_airlineWhich airline does this designator, name or callsign refer to on a date? Accepts an IATA two-character designator, an ICAO three-letter designator, an airline name or a callsign. Returns the operato…Read-only
  • resolve_aircraft_typeWhich aircraft type does this designator or marketing name refer to? Accepts an ICAO type designator (A21N) or a marketing name people actually say ("A321neo", "Dash 8-400", "777-300ER", "Q400"). Re…Read-only
  • resolve_registrationWhich airframe wore this registration on a given date? Accepts a tail number in any common form: VH-OQA, VHOQA, lowercase, padded with whitespace. Returns the aircraft with its country of registry,…Read-only
  • parse_flight_identifierSplit a flight designator into carrier and number, and identify the carrier. Accepts the forms that arrive in real message traffic: TK1979, BAW276, "U2 8341", BA02490, BA2490A. Returns the parsed ca…Read-only
  • flight_airframesWhich airframes have been heard operating this airline flight, how often and when -- from Airside Labs' own ADS-B receiver? Accepts a flight in any common form: BA49, BAW49, "BA 49", VS105. Returns…Read-only
  • airframe_flightsWhich flights has this airframe been heard or filed operating, how often and when -- the inverse of flight_airframes, from Airside Labs' own ADS-B receiver and the FAA flight-plan feed? Accepts a re…Read-only
  • validate_identifiersDo these aviation identifiers describe the same thing on this date? Give any combination of a registration (tail number), a Mode-S 24-bit address, an ICAO type designator, an operator name, an airli…Read-only
  • report_unmet_needTell us what you came looking for and could not get from these tools. Call this when you needed something aviation-related that this toolset did not give you. It is not an error channel and it is no…Can change things
  • use_case_landscapeHow many use cases are there, sliced one way? Counts you can quote. `group_by` is one of org_type (16 canonical organisation types: Airport, Airline, Air Navigation Service Provider, Ground Handling…Read-only
  • search_use_casesWhich aviation AI use cases match this text? Find candidates by keyword. Full-text search (BM25, stemmed) over 6,500 use cases spanning airports, airlines, ANSPs, ground handlers, regulators, manufa…Read-only
  • get_use_caseThe full record for one use case, by id from a search or landscape result. Returns the use-case text; the role that owns it with its description; the organisation type (canonical and as the corpus n…Read-only
  • similar_use_casesWhat else in the catalogue is like this use case? Nearest neighbours by meaning. Returns up to 20 use cases closest in embedding space (bge-base cosine over the use-case text), as summaries with a `…Read-only
  • data_requirementsWhat data does this use case, role or organisation type need, and how fresh? Three modes. With `use_case_id`: that use case's requirements verbatim -- title, normalised title_family, description, no…Read-only
  • trace_data_lineageWhich standard operational messages would evidence this data need? The lineage spine is use case -> data requirement -> requirement family -> standard message type -> data elements. Four modes. With…Read-only
  • trace_workflowWhat happens before and after this use case, and who hands off to whom? The catalogue is otherwise flat -- role, use case, data requirement -- with no edges. This is the edges: named operational seq…Read-only
  • easa_ai_frameworkThe EASA AI-level and hazard-class tables, page-cited, to read a screen against. Returns the AI levels (0, 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B: what the system does and how much authority the end user keeps), th…Read-only
  • scenariosWhich real operational episodes does the catalogue carry, to illustrate use cases with? A scenario is one real day reconstructed from data Airside Labs holds and may publish: FAA SWIM flight plans,…Read-only
  • get_scenarioOne real episode end to end: what happened, where and when (UTC), the actors, what it shows and what it must not be read as; the timeline, every event with its actor, source and the reference of the…Read-only
  • airport_network_integrationWhat level of network integration does this airport have with the EUROCONTROL Network Manager, or with the FAA's TFDM programme, as of a date? Answers with one value: `ani` (Advanced Network Integra…Read-only
  • airport_operatorWho operates this airport, which group would take the commercial meeting, and who owns it? Returns operator_name, operator_group (the parent that a sales or partnership conversation lands with, spel…Read-only
  • airport_operations_statusIs there a positive, sourced reason this airport is not open for ordinary commercial engagement: closed to civil traffic, in a sanctioned jurisdiction, or a general-aviation field with no scheduled s…Read-only
  • airport_connectivityHow many nonstop destinations does this airport publish, and in which countries? Returns the count of nonstop destinations from the airport's published destination table, the number resolved to a co…Read-only
  • airport_size_bandWhich ACI passenger size band is this airport in, on its latest published annual total? Returns the passengers figure, its year, and the band on ACI World's published ASQ size categories: under 2M,…Read-only
  • airport_runwaysWhat runways does this aerodrome publish in its state AIP, with what dimensions, surface, bearings, thresholds and declared distances, and for which AIRAC cycle? Returns every runway the state's exp…Read-only
  • route_capacityHow much scheduled capacity is flown nonstop from one airport to another, by whom and on what, over the last N months of BTS T-100 data? Returns monthly departures performed, seats and passengers wi…Read-only
  • airport_fleet_mixWhat aircraft types fly from (or into) an airport, how often, with how many seats, and at what load factor, over the last N months of BTS T-100 data? Returns each type's departures performed and sha…Read-only
  • submit_suggestionRecord a suggestion about this toolset or its use-case catalogue. No API key is needed for this tool. The suggestion is written as one record into this server's own local feedback store and nothing…Can change things
  • feedback_statusWhat happened to a suggestion or unmet-need report filed here? No API key is needed. Pass the `fingerprint` from a submit_suggestion or report_unmet_need receipt (12 hex characters). Returns `status…Read-only

Audit history

  1. Nov 13Passed

What we sent

Every request in this audit, with the answer and how long it took. We never send credentials and never call a tool.

RequestAnswerTime
initializeHTTP 200178 ms
initializedHTTP 20237 ms
tools/listHTTP 200113 ms
resources/listHTTP 40138 ms
prompts/listHTTP 40134 ms
unknown-methodHTTP 40127 ms

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