Sectional Raster Aeronautical Charts

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Sectional Raster Aeronautical Chart series is designed to meet the needs of users who require georeferenced raster images of FAA Visual Flight Rules (VFR) sectional charts. A raster sectional aeronautical chart is a scanned image of an FAA sectional chart. All information that is part of the paper sectional aeronautical chart is included in the raster image. The image inside the neat line is georeferenced to the surface of the earth. Only the main body of the chart is accurately georeferenced.Georeferencing information for insets except for the Hawaiian Islands should be disregarded..

Each Sectional Raster Aeronautical Charts are provided in two halves, a North side and a South side. Western Aleutian Islands is divided into an East and West side. Cold Bay and Seward are not divided into halves. Hawaiian Islands includes Samoan Islands and Mariana Islands Insets as separate georeferenced files. The files are 200 dots per inch and 8-bit color. The product is provided as a GeoTIFF and available for public viewing from this website. Information regarding the public sale DVD product is available at: digital - Visual Chart. As each paper sectional chart is updated, its raster equivalent is also updated and available for viewing on this website. Please ensure you are using the most current chart by refering to the chart legend.

Download sectional charts in zip format containing a TIF, geospatial and metadata files.

Files which are in the .zip format will need to be uncompressed using an unzip utility.

Follow the instructions to install the ZIP utility program on your computer.

Note: The names of the individual Sectional files will have spaces in them after they are unzipped. This may cause problems for users who are not using a Windows operating system. If you are using an operating system other than Windows you may need to rename the files by omitting the spaces.

Should you discover or encounter an error in any of our products, you are encouraged to contact us immediately. Before you do however, please check the Alerts/Notices webpage to see if the error has been previous discovered or resolved. The FAA has no effective way to contact every individual that has viewed a digital product; therefore, you are requested to check the Alerts/Notices webpage often.