INTERACTIVE AIRCRAFT TOOLS
Aircraft calculators and planning tools
Run the numbers with your own assumptions before a lender, appraiser, or shop runs them with theirs. All eleven tools, from cash to close to records risk, airworthiness directives and N-number lookup, each one exposing its assumptions.
ALL ELEVEN TOOLS
From cash to close to records risk.
Each tool exposes its assumptions. Use the output to frame lender, appraiser, maintenance, and diligence conversations, then replace defaults with evidence from the exact aircraft.
Cash-to-close calculator
See how accepted value and lender LTV turn into the actual equity, closing cash, and liquidity required.
Decision outputThe cash this purchase requires, including the value gap Open tool 02 Live tool Debt structureAircraft loan calculator
Compare monthly payment, financed principal, balloon balance, and interest across structures.
Decision outputPayment and balloon under one set of assumptions Open tool 03 Live tool Maintenance planningMaintenance reserve calculator
Convert hourly, annual, component, and contingency assumptions into a funding target.
Decision outputAnnual and hourly reserve requirement Open tool 04 Live tool Collateral valueAircraft valuation model
Project current and forward aircraft value, then challenge the assumptions against serial-specific evidence.
Decision outputCurrent, forward, and downside value scenarios Open tool 05 Live tool Acquisition capacityAircraft affordability planner
Combine cash to close, debt service, annual operation, maintenance funding, free cash flow, and retained liquidity.
Decision outputAll-in annual cash demand, coverage, and runway Open tool 06 Live tool Lender submissionAircraft loan-readiness builder
Audit the borrower, transaction, aircraft, title, insurance, records, and closing evidence before submission.
Decision outputReadiness score, blockers, and packet plan Open tool 07 Live tool Records and valueAircraft records-risk assessment
Classify a records gap, test what can still be proven, and build a recovery plan around the remaining exposure.
Decision outputRisk tier, value sensitivity, and recovery actions Open tool 08 Live tool Ownership economicsAircraft operating-cost calculator
Separate fixed commitments, trip costs, and maintenance funding, then test the hourly effect of lower utilization.
Decision outputAnnual demand, effective hourly cost, and downside cases Open tool 09 Live tool Records readinessAircraft records-completeness scorecard
Turn a broad claim of completeness into a weighted review of identity, continuity, status, components, repairs, and exceptions.
Decision outputReview coverage, critical gaps, and next evidence priorities Open tool 10 Live tool Airworthiness directivesFAA airworthiness directive lookup
Find the FAA ADs that may apply to an aircraft by N-number, make or model, with applicability text, recurring or one-time, and the official AD.
Decision outputThe ADs that name the make and model, in effect and superseded Open tool 11 Live tool FAA registryN-number lookup
Look up any current US aircraft registration: owner of record when it is a company, make and model, serial, FAA status and dates, and registration history.
Decision outputThe aircraft’s FAA record, with its model page, value and history where public Open toolRESEARCH AND DATA
The numbers behind the tools.
- Who owns America’s business jets?Owner types, trust companies, registered agents and states for every US business jet and turboprop, from the FAA registry.
- Private Jet Price IndexUsed-jet values by class and age for 12 flagship models, from Radar’s valuation model. Updated quarterly.
- AD burden by modelFAA airworthiness directives in effect and recurring, per business jet and turboprop type, ranked.
- US private jet fleet censusEvery US-registered business jet and turboprop, counted by model, maker, class, state and age.
- Private jet fuel burn and CO2 per hourPublished fuel burn, sourced per row, and the CO2 per flight hour and per seat, for 98 business jet and turboprop families.
- Monthly fleet reportWhat changed on the US business aircraft register each month: additions, deliveries, removals and changes of owner.
- Open data and methodologyEvery aggregate as a CSV, under CC BY 4.0, with the method, the update schedule and a press contact.
HOW TO USE THE OUTPUTS
Run it three ways before you rely on it.
Model the transaction
Enter the price, value, financing, utilization, and cost assumptions you actually expect.
Run the downside
Lower value, shorten amortization, increase maintenance, and preserve a liquidity cushion.
Replace assumptions
Use lender terms, appraisal evidence, contracts, shop estimates, and aircraft records before acting.
ALSO ON RADAR
Four products. Four different seats.
Digital logbook and records
Ship the boxes or drop the PDFs. Every logbook digitized back to birth, every answer cited to its source page.
Records → 02 For DOMs and operatorsMaintenance tracking
The due list comes from your maintenance program; completions come from the logbook. Radar reconciles the two.
Maintenance → 03 For owners and operatorsInsurance
An aircraft insurance quote in minutes, placed off the same verified record. Your current broker is not contacted.
Insurance → 04 For banks and lendersPortfolio monitoring
Daily value and LTV, continuous lien, insurance, and maintenance checks, and an exam-ready record for every tail.
For banks and lenders →Know what is behind the number.
Radar connects valuation, maintenance, configuration, and records conclusions to the source documents that support them.
Records & AD tracking by Radar
Own, buy or finance an aircraft? Radar reads every logbook, tracks every airworthiness directive and shows what the records do to value.
The fleet, registry and value data on these pages come from Radar, CRAFT's sister company.
Charter Sales
Tell us the trip. We'll tell you the number.
Route, dates, rough timing, how many people. That is enough to start, and you get a firm price for that specific trip rather than a range.
Text us and you'll get a reply within 60 seconds, any hour.