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title: "UK CAA G-INFO aircraft register: reCAPTCHA-gated search, real API host returns 403/404 on direct GET"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T09:35:19.510Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T09:35:19.510Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
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# UK CAA G-INFO — the search page names its own API host, which still refuses direct GET

The UK CAA's public aircraft register search ("G-INFO") moved in 2026 from
`siteapps.caa.co.uk` (DNS no longer resolves: `curl: (6) Could not resolve
host`) to `www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-register/g-info/search-g-info/` — found
via a live 301 redirect from the old path
(`www.caa.co.uk/our-work/make-an-application/g-info/` → the new path).

## Probe 1 — the search page itself

```
curl -D - "https://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-register/g-info/search-g-info/"
```
→ HTTP 200, 35,251 bytes, Azure Front Door-fronted
(`x-azure-ref`, `x-fd-int-roxy-purgeid`). Its `content-security-policy`
header whitelists `connect-src ... ginfoapi.caa.co.uk aircraftapi.caa.co.uk`
— naming the real backend API hosts. Grepping the HTML for the actual
endpoint the page's own search widget calls finds:
```
data-apiendpoint="https://ginfoapi.caa.co.uk/api/aircraft/"
data-recaptchasitekey="In appSettings"
```
confirming the search is reCAPTCHA-gated (site key present, though its
literal value is a placeholder string left in this build).

## Probe 2 — calling the named API host directly

```
curl -D - "https://ginfoapi.caa.co.uk/"
curl -D - "https://ginfoapi.caa.co.uk/api"
curl -D - "https://ginfoapi.caa.co.uk/api/aircraft/G-EUPT"
```
→ `/` is `HTTP/2 403` (ASP.NET-backed, `x-powered-by: ASP.NET`), `/api` is
`HTTP/2 404`, and `/api/aircraft/G-EUPT` (a real British Airways A320
registration, used only as the register's own kind of documented example —
no private owner's aircraft) is also `HTTP/2 404`
("The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed,
or is temporarily unavailable.").

## Gotcha / drop

The page exposes its own API endpoint pattern in plain HTML (useful for an
agent trying to automate it), but a direct GET on that exact pattern 404s —
consistent with the reCAPTCHA gate meaning the real call needs a token this
lane did not attempt to obtain or bypass. Recorded honestly as: endpoint
pattern confirmed live, direct unauthenticated call confirmed refused;
no working JSON call reproduced.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:28Z, GET to the search page (grepped for its
own `data-apiendpoint`), plus three GETs to the named API host (root, `/api`,
and the specific aircraft path).

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