@squawk/airports

Pure logic library for querying US airport data. Look up airports by FAA ID, ICAO code, geographic proximity, or fuzzy text search. Contains no bundled data - accepts an array of Airport records at initialization. For zero-config use, pair with @squawk/airport-data.

Part of the @squawk aviation library suite. See all packages on npm.

Usage

import { usBundledAirports } from '@squawk/airport-data';
import { createAirportResolver } from '@squawk/airports';

const resolver = createAirportResolver({ data: usBundledAirports.records });

// Look up by FAA ID
const jfk = resolver.byFaaId('JFK');

// Look up by ICAO code
const ord = resolver.byIcao('KORD');

// Find nearest airports to a position
const nearby = resolver.nearest({ lat: 40.6413, lon: -73.7781 });
for (const result of nearby) {
  console.log(result.airport.name, result.distanceNm, 'nm');
}

// Fuzzy-search across FAA ID, ICAO, name, and city (scored, best match first)
const results = resolver.search({ text: 'chicago' });
console.log(results[0]?.airport.name, results[0]?.score);
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Consumers who have their own airport data can use this package standalone:

import { createAirportResolver } from '@squawk/airports';

const resolver = createAirportResolver({ data: myAirports });
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Browser / SPA usage

The resolver factory has no Node-specific imports and ships an explicit /browser subpath for SPAs and edge runtimes. Pair it with @squawk/airport-data/browser:

import { loadUsBundledAirports } from '@squawk/airport-data/browser';
import { createAirportResolver } from '@squawk/airports/browser';

const dataset = await loadUsBundledAirports();
const resolver = createAirportResolver({ data: dataset.records });
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The /browser entry is identical to the main entry; the separate subpath exists so browser support is an explicit, publint-verified part of the public API surface.

API

createAirportResolver(options)

Creates a resolver object from an array of Airport records.

Parameters:

• options.data - an array of Airport objects (from @squawk/types)

Returns: AirportResolver - an object with the lookup methods described below.

resolver.byFaaId(faaId)

Looks up an airport by its FAA location identifier (e.g. "JFK", "LAX", "3N6"). Case-insensitive. Returns Airport | undefined.

resolver.byIcao(icao)

Looks up an airport by its ICAO code (e.g. "KJFK", "KLAX"). Case-insensitive. Returns Airport | undefined.

resolver.nearest(query)

Finds airports nearest to a geographic position, sorted by distance ascending.

Returns NearestAirportResult[], each containing:

• airport - the matched Airport record
• distanceNm - great-circle distance in nautical miles (rounded to 2 decimal places)

// Find the 5 nearest airports within 50 nm
const nearby = resolver.nearest({
  lat: 40.6413,
  lon: -73.7781,
  maxDistanceNm: 50,
  limit: 5,
});

// Find only nearby heliports
const heliports = resolver.nearest({
  lat: 40.6413,
  lon: -73.7781,
  types: new Set(['HELIPORT']),
});
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resolver.search(query)

Fuzzy-searches airports across FAA ID, ICAO code, name, and city. Matching is case-insensitive and tolerant of prefixes, substrings, subsequences, and small typos. Results are scored and returned best-match first.

Returns AirportSearchResult[], sorted by descending score, each containing:

• airport - the matched Airport record
• score - match strength in [0, 1], where 1 is an exact identifier or name match
• matchedField - which field produced the best match: 'faaId', 'icao', 'name', or 'city'
• ranges - matched character ranges within the best-matching field's text, for highlighting

const results = resolver.search({ text: 'san francisco', limit: 10 });
for (const { airport, score, matchedField } of results) {
  console.log(airport.faaId, score, `(matched ${matchedField})`);
}

// Raise minScore to drop weak fuzzy matches
const strong = resolver.search({ text: 'kennedy', minScore: 0.5 });
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Local time at an airport

Every airport record carries an IANA timezone field (e.g. America/New_York) resolved from the airport's lat/lon at build time. Combine it with the standard Intl.DateTimeFormat API to format a timestamp in the airport's local time without pulling in a timezone library at runtime:

const jfk = resolver.byIcao('KJFK');
if (jfk) {
  const formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', {
    timeZone: jfk.timezone,
    dateStyle: 'medium',
    timeStyle: 'short',
  });
  console.log(formatter.format(new Date())); // e.g. "Apr 23, 2026, 3:42 PM"
}
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The same field works anywhere an IANA zone is accepted - Temporal, date-fns-tz, luxon, moment-timezone, etc.