Author: Finlay Grove

Cirium is making a series of updates to our aircraft taxonomy to keep our data up to date with market feedback and also for consistency across our datasets.  

If you have created Saved Searches with any of the types listed below, please check them and update if necessary.

These changes will be made effective from Wednesday 20^th November.

Commercial / Utility

Aircraft Type Description Changes

Current Version	New Updated Version
A220 (CSeries)	A220
ARJ21	C909
Casa C-212	C212
CASA C-295	C295
CASA CN-235	CN235
N-219	N219
N-250	N250

Aircraft Sub Series Description Changes

Type	Current Sub Series	New Sub Series
C212	212 Variant Unannounced	C212 Variant Unannounced
C212	C-212 100	C212-100
C212	C-212 200	C212-200
C212	C-212 300	C212-300
C212	C-212 400	C212-400
C212	NC-212 100	NC212-100
C212	NC-212 200	NC212-200
C212	NC-212 300	NC212-300
C212	NC-212i	NC212i
CN235	CN-235 10	CN235-10
CN235	CN-235 100	CN235-100
CN235	CN-235 100QC	CN235-100QC
CN235	CN-235 200	CN235-200
CN235	CN-235 300	CN235-300
CN235	CN-235 MPA	CN235MPA
CN235	CN-235 MSA	CN235MSA
CN235	CN-235 Variant Unannounced	CN235 Variant Unannounced
C295	C-295 M	C295M
C295	C-295 MPA	C295MPA
C295	C-295 MSA	C295MSA
C295	C-295 MW	C295MW
C295	C-295 W	C295W
CRJ100/200	CRJ100 ER	CRJ100ER
CRJ100/200	CRJ100 LR	CRJ100LR
CRJ100/200	CRJ200 ER	CRJ200ER
CRJ100/200	CRJ200 LR	CRJ200LR
Be-200	Be-200 200	Be-200
Be-200	Be-200 200ChS	Be-200ChS
Be-200	Be-200 200ES	Be-200ES
Be-200	Be-200 200PS	Be-200PS
Be-200	Be-200 200RR	Be-200RR
Il-112	Il-112 T	Il-112T
Il-112	Il-112 V	Il-112V
Il-114	Il-114 100	Il-114-100
Il-114	Il-114 300	Il-114-300
Il-114	Il-114 300T	Il-114-300T
Il-114	Il-114 T	Il-114T
Il-76	Il-76 A100	A-100
Il-76	Il-76 A50	A-50
Il-76	Il-76 A50E	A-50E
Il-76	Il-76 A50I	A-50I
Il-76	Il-76 K	Il-76K
Il-76	Il-76 KJ-2000	KJ-2000
Il-76	Il-76 LL	Il-76LL
Il-76	Il-76 M	Il-76M
Il-76	Il-76 MD	Il-76MD
Il-76	Il-76 MD-90	Il-76MD-90
Il-76	Il-76 MD-90A	Il-76MD-90A
Il-76	Il-76 MF	Il-76MF
Il-76	Il-76 SKIP	Il-76SKIP
Il-76	Il-76 T	Il-76T
Il-76	Il-76 TD	Il-76TD
Il-76	Il-76 TD-90	Il-76TD-90
Il-76	Il-76 VKP (IL-82)	Il-76VKP (IL-82)
MA60	MA-60	MA60
MA60	MA-600	MA600
MA60	MA-600F	MA600F
Tu-134	Tu-134 A	Tu-134A
Tu-134	Tu-134 B	Tu-134B
Tu-134	Tu-134 Sh	Tu-134Sh
Tu-134	Tu-134 UBL	Tu-134UBL
Tu-154	Tu-154 A	Tu-154A
Tu-154	Tu-154 B	Tu-154B
Tu-154	Tu-154 M	Tu-154M
Tu-154	Tu-154 S	Tu-154S
White Knight Two (Model 348)	348 White Knight Two	White Knight Two (Model 348)
Y-7	Y-7 100	Y-7-100
Y-7	Y-7 H	Y-7H
Y-8	Y-8 100	Y-8-100
Y-8	Y-8 200	Y-8-200
Y-8	Y-8 600	Y-8-600
Y-8	Y-8 C	Y-8C
Y-8	Y-8 Q	Y-8Q
Y-12	Y-12 D	Y-12D
Y-12	Y-12 E	Y-12E
Y-12	Y-12 F Aircar	Y-12F Aircar

Business Aviation

Aircraft Type Description Changes

Current Version	New Version
G-1159 Gulfstream II	Gulfstream II
G-1159A Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III
Gulfstream G100 / IAI 1125 Astra	G100 / IAI 1125 Astra
Gulfstream G150	G150
Gulfstream G200 / IAI Galaxy	G200 / IAI Galaxy
Gulfstream G280	G280
Gulfstream G300	G300
Gulfstream G350	G350
Gulfstream G400	G400
Gulfstream G400 (Classic)	G400 (Classic)
Gulfstream G450	G450
Gulfstream G500	G500
Gulfstream G500 (Classic)	G500 (Classic)
Gulfstream G550	G550
Gulfstream G600	G600
Gulfstream G650	G650
Gulfstream G700	G700
Gulfstream G800	G800

Aircraft Sub Series Description Changes

Type	Current Sub Series	New Sub Series
Citation XLS	Citation XLS +	Citation XLS+
Premier	Premier I A	Premier IA
TBM 700 / 850 / 900	TBM 700 A	TBM 700A
TBM 700 / 850 / 900	TBM 700 B	TBM 700B
TBM 700 / 850 / 900	TBM 700 C1	TBM 700C1
TBM 700 / 850 / 900	TBM 700 C2	TBM 700C2
Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III C-20A	C-20A
Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III C-20B	C-20B
Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III C-20C	C-20C
Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III C-20D	C-20D
Gulfstream III	Gulfstream III C-20E	C-20E
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV C-20F	C-20F
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV C-20G	C-20G
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV C-20H	C-20H
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV NC-20G	NC-20G
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV S 102B	S 102B
Gulfstream IV	Gulfstream IV U-4	U-4
King Air 200	C-12C King Air	C-12C
G100 / IAI 1125 Astra	Gulfstream C-38A	C-38A
Hawker 400 / Beechjet 400	Beechjet 400T T-1A Jayhawk	T-1A Jayhawk (Beechjet 400T)
King Air 200	C-12D King Air	C-12D
King Air 200	C-12R King Air	C-12R
King Air 200	C-12T King Air	C-12T
King Air 200	C-12U King Air	C-12U
King Air 200	C-12V King Air	C-12V
King Air 200	C-12Y King Air	C-12Y
King Air 200	Commuter Air Technology CATPASS 250	CATPASS 250
King Air 200	RC-12D King Air	RC-12D
King Air 200	RC-12F King Air	RC-12F
King Air 200	RC-12G King Air	RC-12G
King Air 200	RC-12H King Air	RC-12H
King Air 200	RC-12K King Air	RC-12K
King Air 200	RC-12M King Air	RC-12M
King Air 200	RC-12N King Air	RC-12N
King Air 200	RC-12P King Air	RC-12P
King Air 200	RC-12X King Air	RC-12X
King Air 200	T-54A King Air	T-54A
King Air 200	TC-12B King Air	TC-12B
King Air 200	UC-12B King Air	UC-12B
King Air 200	UC-12F King Air	UC-12F
King Air 200	UC-12M King Air	UC-12M
King Air 350	C-12S King Air	C-12S
King Air 350	MC-12S King Air	MC-12S
King Air 350	MC-12W King Air	MC-12W
King Air 350	UC-12W King Air	UC-12W

Helicopters

Aircraft Type Description Changes

Current Version	New Version
AS365	AS365 Dauphin
SA321	SA321 Super Frelon
SA330	SA330 Puma

Over the past 6 months, the data teams have been working hard to improve the coverage, accuracy and currency of our commercial aircraft base location data.

Cirium defines a Base as the operational location that the aircraft arrives / departs from most often, whilst also factoring in consistent overnight stops using flight activity data.

Our Data Research and Data Science Teams have been able to utilise internal tracking data to provide Base Location Data for over 32,000 commercial aircraft ( more than 90% of the fleet), with updates at least once per week to refresh the data with the latest information.

The fields can be added as columns into the Detail aircraft grid:

Some examples below:

A350 in service fleet grouped by Base Location:

Jet2 fleet grouped by Location

With the majority of Mainline and Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance & Insurance (ACMI) fleets returning to pre-2020 activity we have updated our rules for defining an In Storage status.

During the pandemic tolerances for a Storage status were reduced as the frequency and certainty of Storage events increased. As incidents of Storage are now decreasing, we have expanded the length of time a commercial aircraft must be parked before a Storage status is applied.

If a commercial aircraft exceeds these tolerances a Storage status will be applied. The parking tolerances for Commercial Fleets are:

• 60 days for narrowbodies.
• 90 days for widebodies.
• Unless at a known storage site where a return off-lease or parting out may happen.

Please be aware of minor changes to TU & Emissions figures as we continually improve our methodology to bring you the industry’s most accurate data.

The data team at Cirium has updated the methodology which has a number of accuracy improvements resulting in changes to flight fuel and CO2 emissions figures.

Tracked Utilization also includes a number of data quality and coverage improvements resulting in more flights for more aircraft being tracked.

You can read more about our emissions methodology here.

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Dear customers,

We have updated all columns & filters containing ‘Country’ or ‘Countries’ to now display as ‘Country/Subregion’ or ‘Countries/Subregions’. 

The change has been made to more accurately summarise the data these columns & filters represent. 

Please be aware this will have an impact on saved excel functions, which will need to be updated accordingly. 

Thank you for your cooperation.