---
pretty_name: FlightAware Photos
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- image-classification
- image-to-text
annotations_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license: cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
source_datasets:
- original
configs:
- config_name: train
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: flightaware.jsonl.zst
  default: true
tags:
- image
---

# Dataset Card for FlightAware Photos

### Dataset Summary
This dataset contains aviation and aircraft-related photographs collected from [flightaware.com](https://flightaware.com), along with associated metadata such as aircraft registration numbers, aircraft types, image titles, ratings, view counts, and photographer information.

### Languages
The dataset is monolingual:
- English (en): All image descriptions and metadata are primarily in English

## Dataset Structure

### Data Files
The dataset consists of:
- Metadata in JSONL format (`flightaware.jsonl.zst`) containing URLs, image titles, aircraft information, ratings, view counts, and photographer details for 1,326,910 items.
- Corresponding fullsize image files (if available), stored across multiple ZIP files (with approximately 5,000 images in each archive).

### Data Fields
- `url`: Original URL of the photo on FlightAware
- `votes`: Number of votes/ratings received
- `average_rating`: Average user rating (scale appears to be out of 5)
- `views`: Number of views the photo has received
- `available_sizes`: List of available image sizes with dimensions and source URLs
- `size_name`: Name of the size variant (e.g., "fullsize", "vga", "xga")
- `width`: Width of the image in pixels
- `height`: Height of the image in pixels
- `src`: Source URL for the specific image size
- `label`: Display label for the size (e.g., "fullsize", "medium", "large")
- `image_title`: Title of the image, typically including aircraft type and registration
- `aircraft_registration`: Aircraft registration number (e.g., "N900LH")
- `aircraft_type`: Type/model of aircraft (e.g., "Fairchild Dornier 328")
- `submitted_datetime_utc`: Submission timestamp in UTC
- `description`: Additional description provided by the photographer (may be empty)
- `photographer_name`: Name of the photographer (may be empty)
- `photographer_profile_url`: URL to the photographer's profile on FlightAware
- `photographer_badges`: List of badges/achievements earned by the photographer

### Data Splits
All metadata and corresponding images (if available) are in a single split with 1,326,910 entries.

## Additional Information

### License
This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). This means you can:
* Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
* Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:
* Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
* NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes
* ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Note that this license is the same as used for the original posted images on FlightAware.com. For more details on the original terms, see: https://www.flightaware.com/about/termsofuse/

### Dataset Curators
- [nyuuzyou](https://ducks.party)