One membership, the whole ownership problem
Research, real costs, partnerships, leasebacks and the marketplace — in one place, on one login, instead of four sites that never talked to each other.
Airplane ownership is one problem, not five. You want to know what a type costs before you buy it, whether a partner would halve the bill, whether a leaseback would cover the hangar, and what the thing is worth when you are done with it. Those questions have always been answered on different websites by different people with different agendas.
This is all of it, on one account. The guides and the research stay free — that part should be free. The numbers, the matching and the tools are what membership pays for.
Reader
Everything you need to decide whether owning an airplane makes sense for you at all.
- The full nine-step buying guide
- Airplane profiles — specs, fleet size, market context
- Glossary and first-time buyer FAQ
- Browse every listing
- Save up to three airplanes
Owner
The numbers behind the decision, and the tools that used to mean signing up for four different sites.
- Real operating costs, reported by owners of the exact type
- Mission planner — save routes, payload and weather feasibility
- Cost-of-ownership calculator with your hangar, insurance and fuel
- Partnership matching — find co-owners near your field
- Leaseback analysis — what a flight school deal would actually net you
- Wanted ads that reach owners who never listed
- Unlimited saved airplanes and side-by-side comparison
Broker & Dealer
Unlimited listings, verified badge, and seller analytics. Not open yet.
- Unlimited active listings
- Verified dealer badge
- Listing performance and buyer-interest analytics
- Priority placement in search
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Four sites’ worth of work, one login
Each of these started as its own site. They were always the same audience asking adjacent questions, so they live here now.
Ownership cost data
What a type actually costs to keep, reported by the people keeping them. Hangar, insurance, annual, and the surprise bills — by model and by region, not a national average.
Partnerships
Find one to three co-owners near your home field, with the scheduling rules, reserve structure and operating agreement that keep a partnership from souring by year three.
Leasebacks
Model a leaseback honestly — what the flight school pays, what the extra hours cost you in maintenance and engine reserve, and whether the tax treatment is worth the wear.
Written by someone still flying the line
I’m Jeff Broomall — ATP-rated captain and line check airman, twelve thousand hours, on an eight-days-on rotation. Which means most of what you read here got written in hotel rooms between legs, by someone who has to live with the advice.
Thirty years ago I helped build AOPA’s first website. In between I wrote weather systems for the FAA. I have been on both sides of an airplane purchase and made a fair number of the mistakes in the nine steps personally, which is the only reason I can tell you where they are.