# Aviation Resources (remote · api.aviationresources.io)

Search FAA handbooks and Airman Certification Standards; read and cite pages with figures.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- remote · `api.aviationresources.io`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `7.3.2`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-24.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 557 tokens (~185/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Aviation Resources MCP server?

Aviation Resources is a hosted endpoint at https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http io-aviationresources-aviation-resources 'https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-aviationresources-aviation-resources": {
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "io-aviationresources-aviation-resources": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.io-aviationresources-aviation-resources]
url = "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "io-aviationresources-aviation-resources": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add io-aviationresources-aviation-resources --url 'https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  io-aviationresources-aviation-resources:
    url: "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "io-aviationresources-aviation-resources": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add io-aviationresources-aviation-resources -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-aviationresources-aviation-resources": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-24 (score 71, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-23 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `list_airman_certification_standards` (~76 tokens)

List Airman Certification Standards

Lists every FAA Airman Certification Standard (ACS) in Aviation Resources, such as Private Pilot - Airplane or Instrument Rating - Airplane, with its ID, whether it is ready for use, and how many areas of operation and tasks it has. Use this first to find the ACS a lesson is for.

Output parameters:

- `standards` (array)

### `search_documents` (~253 tokens)

Search FAA Documents

Full-text search across the FAA handbooks, advisory circulars and other reference documents in Aviation Resources (for example the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, Airplane Flying Handbook, Instrument Flying Handbook, Aviation Weather and the Weight & Balance Handbook). Returns the best-matching documents, each with its best pages and short snippets. Use it to find where a topic is covered, then call get_page to read a page in full or see its figures. Cite pages with their viewerUrl.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): How many documents to return.
- `offset` (integer): How many documents to skip, for the next page of results (pagination.offset + pagination.limit).
- `pagesPerResource` (integer): How many of each document's best pages to return.
- `query` (string, required): Search terms, e.g. holding entry or "density altitude". Words must all match (English variants count); use "quotes" for a phrase, or for alternatives, and -word to exclude. Use the words an FAA handb…
- `resourceIds` (array): Only search these documents (IDs from earlier results). Leave out to search every document.

Output parameters:

- `pagination` (object)
- `query` (string): The query as it was run.
- `results` (array): Matching documents, best first. Empty when nothing matches.

### `get_page` (~145 tokens)

Get Document Page

Returns one page of an FAA document from Aviation Resources: an image of the whole page plus the full text of the passages on it. Use it after search_documents to read a page in full or to see figures, charts and tables, or to read on with nextPageNumber / previousPageNumber. Cite the page with its viewerUrl.

Input parameters:

- `includeImage` (boolean): Set false to get only the text, for example when reading through several pages.
- `pageNumber` (integer, required): 1-based page number in the PDF, as search_documents returns it (not the number printed on the page).
- `resourceId` (string, required): The document's ID, from search_documents.

Output parameters:

- `image`: Describes the image content block (the whole page), or null when there is none.
- `imageUnavailableReason`: Why image is null when an image was asked for.
- `indexed` (boolean): False when the document has no text index yet; passages is then empty.
- `nextPageNumber`: The page after, or null on the last page.
- `pageNumber` (integer)
- `passages` (array): Every indexed passage that covers this page, in document order.
- `previousPageNumber`: The page before, or null on the first page.
- `resource` (object)
- `viewerUrl` (string): Opens this page in the Aviation Resources web app. Give this to the user as the source link.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 71
- 2026-10-23: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Aviation Resources MCP server?

Aviation Resources is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.aviationresources/aviation-resources. Search FAA handbooks and Airman Certification Standards; read and cite pages with figures. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp).

### Is the Aviation Resources MCP server safe to use?

Aviation Resources scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Aviation Resources MCP server expose?

Aviation Resources exposes 3 tools: list_airman_certification_standards, search_documents, get_page. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 474 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Aviation Resources MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Aviation Resources without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Aviation Resources MCP server still maintained?

Aviation Resources is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp
- Website: https://aviationresources.io/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-aviationresources-aviation-resources/api