Laravel Aircrafts — IATA aircraft type designators (320, 738, 388, …) for Laravel 12 and 13.

• No database required. Look aircraft types up through a facade backed by an in-memory dataset.
• Typed results. Every lookup returns readonly Aircraft objects in Laravel collections keyed by code.
• Validation rule. new AircraftCode accepts known codes only.
• Optional table. Publish a migration and seed an aircrafts table.

📦 Installation

composer require flairuk/laravel-aircrafts

Requires PHP 8.2 or later with Laravel 12, or PHP 8.3 or later with Laravel 13.

Laravel discovers the service provider and the Aircrafts facade automatically.

🚀 Usage

use FLAIRUK\Aircrafts\Facades\Aircrafts;

Aircrafts::find('738');          // Aircraft { id: 55, code: "738", name: "Boeing 737-800" }
Aircrafts::findOrFail('388');    // throws ItemNotFoundException for unknown codes
Aircrafts::exists('73h');        // true (codes are case-insensitive)
Aircrafts::findById(55);

Aircrafts::all();                // Collection<string, Aircraft> keyed by code
Aircrafts::search('a380');       // matches on name or exact code
Aircrafts::codes();

Select options

Aircrafts::options();            // ['738' => 'Boeing 737-800', ...] sorted by name

Validation

use FLAIRUK\Aircrafts\Rules\AircraftCode;

$request->validate(['equipment' => ['required', new AircraftCode]]);

💾 Database table (optional)

php artisan aircrafts:install             # publish config + migration, then ask to migrate and seed
php artisan aircrafts:install --migrate   # migrate and seed without asking
php artisan aircrafts:seed            # insert / update (safe to re-run)
php artisan aircrafts:seed --prune    # also delete rows no longer in the dataset

You can also call the seeder from your own DatabaseSeeder:

$this->call(\FLAIRUK\Aircrafts\Database\AircraftsSeeder::class);

The bundled FLAIRUK\Aircrafts\Models\Aircraft model gives you Aircraft::code('738')->first(). The table name and connection come from AIRCRAFTS_TABLE and AIRCRAFTS_DB_CONNECTION, or from the published config.

🔄 Upgrading from dev-master

Version 1.0 is a rewrite. Breaking changes:

Row ids are unchanged.

🧪 Testing

composer test

📄 License

MIT. See LICENSE.