Tools
The questions buyers get stuck on, answered with your numbers instead of somebody else's averages.
Every one of these runs in your browser and keeps nothing. No sign-in, no email, no saved profile. The defaults are real numbers rather than flattering ones, because a calculator that makes ownership look easy is worse than no calculator at all.
N-number lookup
Type a tail number, get the make, model, year, airframe, engine and airworthiness class decoded from the FAA registry — and how many of that type are still flying.
Mission planner
Enter the flight you actually make and who comes with you. See which airplanes can carry that load that far, which cannot, and by exactly how much they miss.
Rent, club, partner or own?
Your hours and your local rates against renting, a flying club, a two-way partnership and sole ownership — including the hours where each one starts winning.
Leaseback calculator
What putting your airplane on a school’s line does to the cost of your own flying — including the 100-hour inspections that do not replace the annual, and the engine reserve that arrives in four years instead of twenty.
Flight school scorecard
Twenty-eight weighted questions and the red flags that go with them — certification, finances, fleet condition, insurance, contract practice and reputation — for judging a school before your airplane joins its line.
Pre-buy inspection checklist
Sixty-seven items across paperwork, engine, propeller, structure, systems, avionics and the test flight — filtered by who should be doing each one, with findings sorted into the four categories the negotiation runs on.
Readiness check
Hours, certificate, mission, reserve, hangar and mechanic. Answers honestly and tells you which one is actually holding you up.
Next out of the hangar
Cost of ownership calculator
A full annual budget for a specific type at a specific field — hangar, insurance, annual, engine reserve, fuel and the unscheduled maintenance nobody plans for.
Pre-buy inspection checklist
The list to hand your mechanic, organised the way an inspection actually runs, with the findings that should end a deal marked as such.
Partnership cost splitter
Model a two, three or four-way partnership: what each owner puts in, what each pays monthly, and what happens to the numbers when someone wants out.