Flight Data Services (Acron Aviation)

Flight Data Services is now the Flight Data Intelligence business of Acron Aviation. It provides outsourced flight data monitoring (FDM), flight operations quality assurance (FOQA), safety support and flight data recorder readouts to airlines, business jet operators and helicopter operators. The business grew up in Fareham, UK, and flightdataservices.com now forwards to acronaviation.com.

Services

• Flight Data Monitoring and FOQA for fixed-wing and rotary-wing fleets
• Flight Data Connect, which lets operators benchmark safety parameters against the industry
• Helicopter flight data monitoring
• Business jet and turboprop flight data monitoring
• Express Readout service for flight data recorders
• Astra, an iOS app that gives pilots personal performance metrics before and after each flight
• Wireless Quick Access Recorder (uQAR2)
• Flight Safety Officer support and an annual Safety Seminar

By the numbers

• More than 25,000 flights monitored every day
• Database of over 45 million flights
• 750+ safety events that can be set to an operator's own procedures
• Flight data processed within five minutes of landing

Approvals and partners

Acron Aviation is a supplier to IATA's Flight Data eXchange (FDX). It says it is the only service that lets operators benchmark safety parameters against the industry, competitors or operators of the same or similar aircraft. It uses patented data cleansing methods, and a team of analysts adds context to each safety programme.

Company facts

• Formerly Flight Data Services, later part of L3Harris, now Acron Aviation Flight Data Intelligence
• UK base: 1 Barnes Wallis Road, Fareham PO15 5UA
• Acron Aviation head office: 100 2nd Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, United States
• Acron Aviation also offers avionics, airline training and training systems

Contact

Enquiry form on acronaviation.com
Details from acronaviation.com, October 2026.