As part of our ongoing efforts to improve data consistency and reflect real world industry developments, we are updating the names of selected Original Equipment Manufacturers across Cirium products and datasets.

These changes align our datasets with current manufacturer naming standards.

What is changing?

We are updating OEM names in our datasets to reflect their current, widely recognised industry names.
Specifically:

Based on market feedback, Cirium is updating its aircraft taxonomy for two business jet families.

The Legacy 450 and Praetor 500 are currently treated as separate aircraft types. However, given the growing number of retrofit conversions between these models, Cirium will consolidate them into a single aircraft type: “Praetor 500 / Legacy 450.”

Similarly, Bombardier now offers the conversion of existing Global 7500 aircraft to Global 8000 specification. As a result, Cirium will also combine these into a single aircraft type: “Global 7500 / Global 8000.”

As part of this rework, some FG IDs may change for affected aircraft. Customers are therefore advised to review any saved queries or workflows that rely on the unique FG ID.

If you have Saved Searches that include the aircraft types noted above, please review and update them as required.

The updated, combined aircraft types will be reflected in the data from Tuesday, 5 May.

Further to our post on 4 March regarding the monitoring of Middle East based fleets amid the ongoing conflict, Cirium has reviewed and updated the status of non‑military fleets in two additional countries—Kuwait and Bahrain—to Storage.

It should be noted that for certain operators, such as Gulf Air, parts of their fleets are currently operating outside of Bahrain. In these cases, the relevant aircraft have been retained as In Service.

As previously stated, the Fleets Research team continues to closely monitor flight activity across the region and will update fleet statuses as the situation evolves. Any wider updates will be posted here to keep customers posted of our latest policy for particular countries.

Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Cirium has updated the status of non‑military aircraft fleets in Iran and Iraq to Storage. In other Gulf countries, commercial flight activity remains limited; however, Cirium will, for the time being, retain these fleets as In Service.

Using Cirium’s internal flight‑tracking capabilities, the Fleets Research team continues to closely monitor flight activity across the region and will update fleet statuses as the situation evolves.