FAA Service Difficulty Report monitoring, matched to your exact part numbers
Mechanics file a Service Difficulty Report every time a component fails or malfunctions in the field — it's the most granular public safety data source there is, and the one most likely to actually name your part number. We check it every weekday, so you don't have to.
The most part-specific source you can monitor
An FAA Service Difficulty Report (SDR) is filed by a mechanic, not a manufacturer or the FAA itself — it's a real-world account of a part that failed or malfunctioned, usually written by the person who pulled it out of the aircraft. That means SDRs commonly include the actual part name, part number, and ATA/JASC system code, plus a plain-language narrative of what went wrong.
No other public source gets this specific. Airworthiness Directives and SAIBs are aircraft/system-level more often than not; NTSB CAROL records accidents and incidents at the aircraft level and rarely names a part at all. If you're a PMA manufacturer trying to know the moment your part number shows up in a real defect report — before a customer calls you about it — SDRs are where that shows up first. And because every SDR also carries the aircraft it was filed against, a flight school, lessor, or owner watching by aircraft model instead of part number still gets matched — you don't need to know a part number in advance to find out your aircraft type had a real issue reported.
Why manual SDR monitoring doesn't scale
Tens of thousands of SDRs are filed every year, across every part and system on every aircraft type.
Volume
The FAA's own annual SDR dataset runs in the tens of thousands of records — reading them all for the handful that mention your parts isn't realistic for any team.
No native filtering by your parts
FAA's own tools let you search SDR data, but there's no standing alert for "tell me when my part number shows up next" — you'd be re-running the same search by hand, indefinitely.
The narrative matters
A part number alone can miss a real match — the same failure is sometimes described by part name or keyword instead. Matching needs to check both.
How this actually works
No AI, no black box — a straightforward rule-based match against data you can verify yourself.
You tell us what to watch
Part numbers, keywords, aircraft models, and ATA chapters — whatever's specific to what you build or service.
We check SDR data every weekday
Matched against part name, part number, ATA/JASC code, and the narrative text — not just one field.
Exact matches, ranked first
SDRs are the source most likely to produce a real Tier 1 match — one of your watchlist keywords or part numbers found in the record exactly as you entered it, the highest-confidence tier your report has.
One daily email, fully sourced
Every item links straight back to the original SDR record — nothing paraphrased or summarized.
Know the moment your part number shows up in a defect report
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