Downloading FAA TFR Data

I have made available a dataset of temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In all, I collected the text of 15,558 TFRs that were active between September 20, 2017 and December 21, 2021. You can also download the shapefiles for all TFRs, which can be loaded into GIS software.

A directory of shapefiles in the .tar.gz archive can be paired with its corresponding TFR by matching the folder name with the guid column of the csv file. For more details, please see the Github project or the blog post documenting how I built the webscraping tool with R and AWS EC2.

tfr-data

Web scraping tool for collecting FAA Temporary Flight Restrictions data

R Shell

Web Scraping with R & Amazon Web Services

Setting up an R-based web scaper on an AWS EC2 instance

Oct 10, 2017