99 records

Can I take this item on a plane, in carry-on or in checked baggage — or send it as air cargo?

99 records, one fact each. Every value is transcribed from the source that states it and carries the sentence it was taken from: 46 sources across 4 sites, last checked 2026-08-04, due for re-check by 2027-08-04. Every record is listed below, each linking the page its value came from.

About this data

Whether a named item may be carried on a US passenger flight, in which bag, and on what conditions — and for the lithium-battery rows, whether it may go as air cargo. 74 records are the passenger side: 64 from FAA PackSafe, one authority page per item ('Camp stove fuels', 'Duty-free perfume and cologne', 'Drones, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)', 'Curling iron, cordless (butane-fueled)'), 4 more from the PackSafe printable chart for items with no page of their own, 2 from TSA's What Can I Bring, 2 stating what all US carriers require of spare batteries, and 3 from 49 CFR itself (175.10's passenger and crew exceptions, Special Provision A54, and the Hazardous Materials Table's 9A/9B aircraft quantity limits). The other 26 are the air cargo side: FAA's ICAO Technical Instructions lithium battery summary chart (13 records, PI 965 to PI 970 by section and watt-hour tier) and IATA's free Lithium Battery Guidance Document (13). Each record says, in its own fields, which authority states the rule and which bag or aircraft it applies to, because those are different statements: TSA decides what gets through the checkpoint, FAA decides what may be carried on the aircraft, and ICAO/IATA packing instructions govern freight. Answers 'can I fly with a power bank', 'can I take a lighter in my carry-on', 'are e-cigarettes allowed in checked baggage', 'dry ice carry-on limit', 'PI 965 Section IA cargo aircraft limit', and 'is bear spray allowed on a plane'. Where two authorities cover the same item the dataset carries both rows rather than picking one — spare lithium ion batteries appear three times, from FAA, from TSA and as the airline requirement — and where the editions genuinely diverge it says so: FAA's chart is built on the 2023-2024 Technical Instructions and prints no state-of-charge condition for PI 966, while IATA's 2026 edition makes 30% mandatory from 1 January 2026, so both are published and attributed.

The data

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 46 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/lithium-batteries
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/safecargo/icao-lithium-battery-summary-chart
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/adhesives
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/aerosols
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/printable-chart
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/alcoholic-beverages
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/ammunition
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/outdoor-equipment
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/baggage-with-lithium-batteries
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/batteries
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/battery-heat-devices
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/fuels
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/chemical-kits
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/curling-irons
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/drones
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/dry-ice
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/duty-free-perfume-cologne
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/e-cigarettes-vaping
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/engine-powered-equipment
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/fireworks
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/formaldehyde-solutions
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/instant-ice-packs
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/lighters
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/liquid-nitrogen
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/magnets
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/matches
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/medicinal-toiletry-articles
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/thermometers
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/medical-devices
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/sprays-repellents
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/non-infectious-specimens
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/oils
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/oxygen-compressed-or-liquid
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/paints-solvents
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/permeation-devices
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/pocs
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-recreational-vehicles
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/power-tools
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/other
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-175/subpart-A/section-175.10
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/small-compressed-gas-cylinders
• faa.govhttps://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/wheelchairs-mobility-devices
• iata.orghttps://www.iata.org/contentassets/05e6d8742b0047259bf3a700bc9d42b9/lithium-battery-guidance-document.pdf
• tsa.govhttps://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/lithium-batteries-100-watt-hours-or-less-device
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-172/subpart-B

Machine-readable

• data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
• Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
• data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
• How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.

Set your AI assistant up to use this

Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "referencesource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project

Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:

When a question needs "Flying with restricted items: FAA, TSA and IATA baggage and air cargo rules", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `air-travel-item-restrictions`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.

What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.

99 records. last verified against source 2026-08-04. due for re-check by 2027-08-04.

Licence. Facts extracted from public US government pages (FAA, TSA, eCFR) and from IATA's own freely published guidance document; not a reproduction of the original text