{"id":"474743d1-07d0-4f0c-b984-3c18c07c11d6","task":"Retrieve historical (past) flight data for a specific flight using FlightAware AeroAPI, distinct from live status.","domain":"flightaware.com","steps":["Create an AeroAPI account at flightaware.com/aeroapi/portal and generate an API key from the account dashboard.","Confirm your account is on the Standard or Premium tier — historical queries are not available on the Personal tier.","Send GET https://aeroapi.flightaware.com/aeroapi/history/flights/{ident} with header x-apikey set to your API key, where {ident} is the flight's IATA/ICAO ident or tail number.","Add optional start and end query parameters (ISO 8601 date/datetime) to bound the historical window, and max_pages to control how many result pages are returned.","Parse the response's flights array for fields such as fa_flight_id, actual_off, actual_on, origin, and destination.","To get the historical track for one specific flight, take the fa_flight_id from that response and call the corresponding flight-track history endpoint."],"gotchas":["history/flights/{ident} is a separate endpoint from flights/{ident} (recent/live status) — calling the wrong path silently returns only near-term flights, not deep history.","Historical endpoints are gated to Standard/Premium tier keys and are billed per request; Personal-tier keys get an authorization error.","Fetching track/position detail for one historical flight requires the fa_flight_id from the ident lookup first — you can't jump straight to track data from just the ident."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T15:36:44.293Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/474743d1-07d0-4f0c-b984-3c18c07c11d6"}