Pay-per-call aircraft types lookup via AviationStack on Tempo L2
What it does
This MPP endpoint provides an aircraft types lookup service, part of the broader AviationStack suite that covers real-time and historical flight tracking, airports, airlines, and schedules. The endpoint is hosted at aviationstack.mpp.tempo.xyz and settles payments on Tempo L2 (chainId 4217) using pathUSD.
Each call costs 5,000 base units of pathUSD. Assuming pathUSD uses 6 decimals (consistent with other USD stablecoins), this translates to $0.005 (half a cent) per request. The payment intent is "charge", meaning each request is a one-shot micropayment. The provider covers gas fees (feePayer: true), so callers only pay the data cost.
No OpenAPI schema, documentation pages, or example responses were found on the provider's domain — all auxiliary routes return 404. The endpoint itself is live and returns a proper 402 MPP challenge on unauthenticated GET requests. Without documentation it is unclear what query parameters the endpoint accepts (likely IATA/ICAO type codes or similar filters) or what shape the response takes, though it presumably mirrors the upstream AviationStack aircraft_types API.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Look up aircraft type details (manufacturer, model, IATA/ICAO codes) for flight-tracking applications
- —Enrich flight records with aircraft type metadata in data pipelines
- —Power aviation search or booking tools that need aircraft classification info
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or apps needing on-demand aircraft type data without a subscription
- —Micropayment-friendly aviation data access
- —Programmatic lookups of aircraft designators and specifications
Not for
- —Bulk export of the entire aircraft types database (pay-per-call cost adds up)
- —Use cases requiring real-time flight positions or schedules (different endpoint needed)
- —Users who need detailed documentation or guaranteed SLA before integrating
Quick start
curl -X GET "https://aviationstack.mpp.tempo.xyz/v1/aircraft_types" \
-H "Authorization: Payment <tempo-payment-token>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid 402 MPP challenge, confirming it works. However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no documentation, no example responses, and all auxiliary pages return 404. Query parameters and response shape must be inferred from the upstream AviationStack API, which was not crawled. This is effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No documentation or OpenAPI schema found on the provider domain — all doc routes return 404.
- —Query parameters and response schema are unknown; callers must guess or reference upstream AviationStack docs.
- —Currency contract address 0x20c000000000000000000000b9537d11c60e8b50 assumed to be pathUSD with 6 decimals; if decimals differ, the stated price ($0.005) would be wrong.
- —Root domain returns 404, so there is no landing page or human-readable info.
Citations
- —Endpoint returns HTTP 402 with MPP challenge on GET, confirming it is livehttps://aviationstack.mpp.tempo.xyz/v1/aircraft_types
- —Payment amount is 5000 base units, settled via Tempo method on chainId 4217 with feePayer truehttps://aviationstack.mpp.tempo.xyz/v1/aircraft_types
- —Part of AviationStack: Real-time and historical flight tracking, airports, airlines, and scheduleshttps://aviationstack.mpp.tempo.xyz/v1/aircraft_types