Get active NOTAMs for any airport via the FAA SWIM real-time feed. Returns raw NOTAM text plus fully parsed fields — NOTAM ID, type, location, effective time, expiration time, and body. No polling of government portals required.
The SkyLink NOTAM API taps directly into the FAA SWIM FNS (Flight Notification Service) real-time Solace messaging system, delivering NOTAMs the moment they are issued — no scraping, no delays, no polling aviationweather.gov or the ICAO NOTAM portal.
NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) is a notice distributed to pilots and airline operations containing essential information about temporary changes to airspace, runways, navigation aids, and hazards. Every preflight check requires reviewing active NOTAMs for the planned route and destination. Examples:
- Runway closures and surface conditions
- ILS/VOR/ATIS out of service
- TFRs (Temporary Flight Restrictions) — VIP movements, disasters, special events
- Airspace closures and military operations
- Construction cranes and obstacles near airports
- Bird hazards and wildlife activity
- Real-time data from FAA SWIM FNS (Solace AMQP messaging / AIXM 5.1)
- Zero polling delay — NOTAMs delivered as issued, not on a timer
- Fully parsed fields — NOTAM ID, type (N/R/C), location, effective time, expiration time, body text
- Raw text preserved alongside parsed data — for display or manual review
- All active NOTAMs for a given airport in a single call
- Supports all ICAO airport codes worldwide
GET /v3/notams/{icao}
# Examples:
GET /v3/notams/KJFK # JFK International, New York
GET /v3/notams/EGLL # Heathrow, London
GET /v3/notams/KLAX # Los Angeles International
GET /v3/notams/KSFO # San Francisco International
GET /v3/notams/EDDM # Munich Airport
GET /v3/notams/RJTT # Tokyo Haneda
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importrequestsheaders= {
"x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
"x-rapidapi-host": "skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com"
}
r=requests.get(
"https://skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com/v3/notams/KJFK",
headers=headers
)
data=r.json()
print(f"{data['total_count']} active NOTAMs for {data['icao']}")
fornotamindata["notams"][:5]:
print(f"\n[{notam['notam_id']}] Type: {notam['type']}")
print(f" Effective: {notam['effective']} → {notam['expiration']}")
print(f" {notam['body']}")r=requests.get(
"https://skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com/v3/notams/KJFK",
headers=headers
)
notams=r.json()["notams"]
# Filter for runway-related NOTAMsrunway_notams= [nforninnotamsif"RWY"inn["body"] or"RUNWAY"inn["body"]]
print(f"{len(runway_notams)} runway NOTAMs active at KJFK")
forninrunway_notams:
print(f" [{n['notam_id']}] {n['body'][:120]}")
# Filter for ILS out of serviceils_notams= [nforninnotamsif"ILS"inn["body"] or"LOC"inn["body"]]
print(f"\n{len(ils_notams)} ILS/LOC NOTAMs")importrequests, time, jsonheaders= {
"x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
"x-rapidapi-host": "skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com"
}
icao="KJFK"seen_ids=set()
whileTrue:
r=requests.get(
f"https://skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com/v3/notams/{icao}",
headers=headers
)
notams=r.json()["notams"]
current_ids= {n["notam_id"] forninnotams}
new_notams= [nforninnotamsifn["notam_id"] notinseen_ids]
expired=seen_ids-current_idsifnew_notams:
print(f"NEW NOTAMs for {icao}:")
forninnew_notams:
print(f" + [{n['notam_id']}] {n['body'][:100]}")
ifexpired:
print(f"EXPIRED: {expired}")
seen_ids=current_idstime.sleep(600) # check every 10 minutesconstaxios=require('axios');constheaders={'x-rapidapi-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY','x-rapidapi-host': 'skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com'};const{ data }=awaitaxios.get('https://skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com/v3/notams/EGLL',{ headers });console.log(`${data.total_count} active NOTAMs at EGLL`);data.notams.forEach(n=>{console.log(`[${n.notam_id}] ${n.body}`);console.log(` Expires: ${n.expiration}`);});curl -X GET "https://skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com/v3/notams/KJFK" \
-H "x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "x-rapidapi-host: skylink-api.p.rapidapi.com"{
"icao": "KJFK",
"total_count": 23,
"notams": [
{
"notam_id": "1/0001",
"type": "N",
"location": "KJFK",
"effective": "2026-03-29T12:00:00Z",
"expiration": "2026-04-15T23:59:00Z",
"body": "RWY 04L/22R CLSD DAILY 2200-0600 LOCAL DUE TO CONSTRUCTION",
"raw": "!JFK 03/001 JFK RWY 04L/22R CLSD 2203292200-2204150600",
"source": "FAA SWIM FNS"
}
]
}NOTAM types:
N— New NOTAMR— Replace (supersedes previous NOTAM)C— Cancel
- EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) NOTAM briefing section — display parsed and categorized NOTAMs
- Preflight planning apps — integrate NOTAMs alongside weather for a complete briefing
- TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) monitoring — track VIP movements and special events
- Drone/UAS BVLOS pre-flight checks — ensure no TFRs or closed airspace on planned route
- AI flight briefing pipelines — feed NOTAM data to LLMs alongside METAR/TAF
- Dispatch system integration — alert dispatchers to runway or navaid outages
- metar-api — METAR/TAF weather for preflight briefing
- aviation-weather-api — PIREPs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs
- aviation-utilities-api — AI-powered flight briefing that aggregates METAR + NOTAMs + PIREPs
- aerodrome-charts-api — approach and procedure charts for the same airports
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- Free Tier: 1,000 requests/month — no credit card required
- Data source: FAA SWIM FNS (Solace AMQP / AIXM 5.1) — real-time, worldwide airports