Step 1 · The aircraft
Ownership, use and intentions.
Four services, all starting from who holds operational control.
Management work is administrative, logistical and financial: coordinating vendors, tracking budgets, keeping records in order. What it is not is authority to initiate, conduct or terminate flights, unless the arrangement says so and the applicable rules are met. We write the allocation down because a vague management agreement is how owners end up in an operation they never agreed to.
Ownership, use and intentions.
Allocated in writing.
Vendors, records and budget.
What was done and spent.
What the agreements actually say.
Who decides what, in practice.
Where the two diverge.
Including declining to proceed.
Owners are routinely offered arrangements that look efficient and sit on the wrong side of the line: an aircraft plus crew presented as a lease, cost sharing that functions as a fare, a management company exercising control over flights held out for money. We will tell you when something has that shape, and we decline to participate in it.
We coordinate; we do not perform maintenance. Maintenance, alterations and inspections require a certificated repair station or a certificated mechanic, and that is not a boundary anyone should blur on an aircraft. We track what was done, when, by whom and under what authorization, because the records are the aircraft's value as much as its condition.
What the aircraft actually requires.
Certificated for that work.
Scope, cost and timing tracked.
Filed properly, not loosely.
Use, pilot and territory clauses.
How the aircraft actually flies.
Named, in writing.
Resolved with them, not us.
Aviation policies are specific about use, pilot qualifications and currency, and a flight outside those terms may simply not be covered. Owners discover this after an incident. We read the policy against how the aircraft is actually used and flag the gaps. We are not brokers or advisers on insurance products; we point at the mismatch and send you to your broker.
A free first conversation, with no obligation.