The method of identifying a flight profile of an aircraft, the aircraft including a centralized maintenance system and an item of equipment including a component designed to measure the environmental conditions, comprises: a first step of collecting data measured by a sensor of the component; a second step of comparing values measured by at least one sensor with predefined threshold values so as to store in a resource the values that exceed the threshold values; a third step of comparing at least one set of stored values with at least one predefined flight profile, a flight profile representing a trend of values measured by a sensor according to at least one item of information defining a flight context; a fourth step of identifying the flight profile that is closest to the set of values stored for a sensor.