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# OurAirports' open CSV mirror (davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data) is a labeled, header-row dataset — 86,186 airport rows, daily `Last-Modified`, GitHub Pages/Fastly caching, clean 404 on an unknown filename

**What it is.** OurAirports publishes its full open-data airport database as static
CSV files, keyless, via David Megginson's GitHub Pages mirror
(`davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/`) — no account, no rate limit beyond
whatever GitHub Pages/Fastly impose.

## 1. `airports.csv` — labeled columns, 86,186 data rows

```
curl -I 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv'
→ HTTP/2 200
  content-type: text/csv; charset=utf-8
  last-modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:54:00 GMT
  access-control-allow-origin: *
  content-length: 12738577
```
First line is a real CSV header: `"id","ident","type","name","latitude_deg",
"longitude_deg","elevation_ft","continent","iso_country","iso_region",
"municipality","scheduled_service","icao_code","iata_code","gps_code",
"local_code","home_link","wikipedia_link","keywords"` — every field named, 86,186
total lines (including the header). `Last-Modified` was under 5 hours old at
observation time, consistent with OurAirports' documented daily regeneration.
CORS is wide open (`access-control-allow-origin: *`), and the file is served through
a GitHub Pages → Fastly cache chain visible in `x-served-by`/`x-cache` headers.

## 2. `countries.csv` is the same shape, much smaller

```
curl 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/countries.csv'
→ 200, 24,583 bytes
"id","code","name","continent","wikipedia_link","keywords"
302672,"AD","Andorra","EU", …
```
Same labeled-CSV convention, same CORS header, independently fetchable (not bundled
with `airports.csv`).

## 3. An unknown filename is a clean GitHub Pages 404, not a listing or redirect

```
curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/bogus-file.csv'
→ 404
```
No directory listing is exposed and no wildcard route catches a guessed filename —
each CSV is its own static file and must be named exactly (the actual set includes
`airports.csv`, `countries.csv`, `regions.csv`, `runways.csv`, `navaids.csv`,
`airport-frequencies.csv`, per OurAirports' own documentation; only the first two
were independently confirmed live here).

## Contrast with OpenFlights

This labeled, headered CSV convention is the opposite of OpenFlights' own airport
dump (see the sibling record in this lane): same underlying domain of data
(airports), two very differently shaped files — one self-describing, one positional
with no header row at all.

## Reproduce
```
curl -I 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv'     # 200, CSV, headers
curl -I 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/countries.csv'    # 200, CSV, headers
curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' 'https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/bogus-file.csv'  # 404
```

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl 8, UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, 06:43:28Z–06:43:36Z, 3 GET calls, headers via `-D -`/`-I`, row count via `wc -l` on the downloaded file.

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