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AIR

AeronauticalInformationRepository

Data-centric Aeronautical Information Management

The Aeronautical Information Repository (AIR) provides a single source of truth for aeronautical data. Built on the ICAO AIM Data Catalogue and the AIXM information model, AIR combines AIRAC-based version control and data traceability with native AIXM data exchange. Additional digital services, including mapping and chart design, build on this core platform — extending the value of a unified and authoritative aeronautical data foundation.

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Why AIR

One data model. Consistent information everywhere

Traditional AIM workflows are often document-centric, with publications authored and maintained alongside the underlying databases. This duplication creates opportunities for inconsistencies between AIPs, digital data sets and aeronautical charts. AIR takes a different approach. It maintains a single, structured aeronautical data model and generates publications and information products directly from it — keeping data, publications and charts consistent by construction.

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One data model. Multiple representations.

AIXM data sets, maps, charts and published AIP sections are generated as consistent views of a single aeronautical domain model. Rather than maintaining multiple representations of the same information, AIR derives each publication product from one authoritative source.

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AIRAC cycles as versioned branches

Each AIRAC cycle is an independently versioned branch of the aeronautical data model. Teams prepare upcoming releases in parallel while maintaining the active cycle, then integrate changes through controlled merges.

Capabilities

What AIR delivers

From AIXM data exchange to professionally designed aeronautical maps and charts — AIR brings data management, geospatial visualisation and chart design together in one platform.

Catalogue-shaped data model

AIR's domain model draws on both the ICAO AIM Data Catalogue (PANS-AIM, Doc 10066) and the AIXM conceptual model. It covers the core aeronautical information domains, including aerodromes, runways, declared distances, obstacles, waypoints, navigation aids, routes, procedures and airspace.

Branch versioning and change control

Isolated editing views branched off the published baseline, a differences view modelled on ArcGIS Pro, conflict resolution either side's way, and a versions graph that reads like a git log.

Design aviation charts from aeronautical data

Create professional aviation charts directly from authoritative aeronautical data. Use the integrated ICAO Annex 4 symbology library to design publication-ready charts.

Native AIXM data exchange

AIXM 5.1.1 is natively supported for importing and exporting aeronautical information. Connect to existing national data sources, exchange data with external systems and publish aeronautical information using an established international standard.

Open aeronautical data through GeoJSON

Export aeronautical data as GeoJSON for seamless integration with external GIS applications and data-processing workflows. Make geographic features available in an open, widely supported format, extending the reach of AIR beyond its own mapping and chart-design environment.

Inside AIR Studio

One workspace for the whole data chain

AIR Studio is the browser workspace over the repository: every subject of the Data Catalogue as a searchable grid beside a map, the Map Designer, the Symbols library, the Layout Designer and the Versions screen, with editor and approver roles and an actor on every change.

  • Aerodromes
  • Obstacles
  • Waypoints
  • Navaids
  • Routes
  • Procedures
  • Airspaces
  • Political Boundaries
  • Maps
  • Symbols
  • Layouts
  • Versions

Who it is for

Built for data originators

AIR starts with the aerodrome operator acting as data originator to its national AIS under Annex 15, PANS-AIM and Regulation (EU) 2017/373. The AD 2 chapter, the obstacle surveys, the declared distances: owned in one place, version-controlled per AIRAC, and handed to the AIS as AIXM and as the rendered section.

The same model grows into the AIS side: airspace, routes, procedures and the publication itself.

  • Aerodrome operatorsAD 2 data, obstacles and charts as a single source of truth
  • Aeronautical Information ServicesBranch-versioned AIRAC cycles with a generated change list
  • Chart producersMaps and chart layouts rendered from live data, not inserted scans

Roadmap

Expanding the AIR platform

eAIP generation

The electronic AIP as a projection of the model: GEN, ENR and AD sections rendered from the data and published as a frozen tree per AIRAC issue.

Procedure Designer

PANS-OPS procedure design built into the product, against the model's own obstacles, terrain, navaids and aerodromes. The procedure is domain data; its chart is generated.

Digital Products

Create, manage and distribute digital AIM products and services across your organization and throughout your aviation partner network.

Beyond the product

Engineering services

Specialized software engineering for Air Navigation Service Providers

Aeronautical Information Management

Design and implementation of AIM solutions in compliance with ICAO Doc 10066.

Situation Displays

High-performance radar view rendering engines at the heart of the controller working position.

Safety-Critical Software

Standards-driven engineering of mission-critical Air Traffic Management systems.

Open Source Software

Tools and libraries for the aviation community: ASTERIX, AIXM, rendering engines and a hardened Linux for ATM equipment.

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