Aircraft for Sale: Marketplace with Verified History
Pilot.Report is a marketplace for aircraft for sale where every listing is bound to a real aircraft from the owner's garage and carries a verifiable history instead of a seller's word. Buy and sell general aviation airplanes and helicopters with provenance you can check, not just claims you have to trust.
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Verified provenance, not self-declaration
A classic classified board asks the seller to type everything by hand — hours, avionics, condition — and the buyer has no way to know what is true. Here a listing is not filled from scratch: it is attached to an aircraft in the owner's garage, so the model, registration, year, total time, home base and photos are pulled automatically from a single source of truth.
On top of that data the backend computes a Trust Score from 0 to 100 out of objective, hashable facts — not from anything the seller sets. The score is deterministic and the same formula runs live inside the sell form, so what the owner sees while pricing the aircraft is exactly what a buyer sees on the card.
- Registry match with the national aircraft register: 25 points
- Sealed, hashed logbook records: up to 24 points
- Highest passed Pilot.Report inspection level L1–L3: up to 25 points
- Documents in the vault: up to 12 points; photos 6; condition 5; note 3
The trust checklist buyers actually read
Every listing exposes a trust checklist so a buyer evaluates the aircraft on evidence rather than adjectives. Each item is an on/off indicator, and the compact version travels with the card on the storefront (score, registry-verified flag, sealed record count, inspection level, document count) so shoppers can compare listings at a glance.
The full checklist on the listing page turns the score into something legible: is the logbook history sealed, is the tail number tied to the government registry, was an inspection passed, are documents present, are there photos, is the condition stated, is there a note. Nothing here is a marketing badge — each tick maps to data the platform can hash and re-verify.
- Logbook history sealed and hashed
- Registry link to the national aircraft register
- Passed inspection level (L1 / L2 / L3)
- Documents in the vault, photos, condition, seller note
Document Vault (VDR) with progressive disclosure
Serious diligence needs paperwork, but sellers should not spill their documents to random passers-by. The Document Vault is a digital VDR for the aircraft — airframe, engine and prop logs, Certificate of Airworthiness, registration, weight & balance, Form 337, avionics and insurance — with three access tiers that open as trust in the deal grows.
Public documents are visible to everyone; the technical set unlocks after the buyer confirms email (KYC); originals unlock only once the deal reaches escrow (deposit level). Files are never served as raw links: each is delivered through a signed URL with a 10-minute TTL, and every document carries a SHA-256 fingerprint so the history cannot be quietly swapped.
- Three tiers: public / KYC (email verified) / deposit (escrow+)
- Signed URLs with a 10-minute TTL — no raw file links leave the platform
- SHA-256 hash on every document and on sealed logbook records
- Categories: airframe, engine, prop logs, CoA, registration, W&B, Form 337, avionics, insurance
From listing to deal room and escrow
A marketplace that stops at a photo grid leaves the hard part to email threads. Here the storefront is a transactional engine: the "Contact seller" button opens a deal room with a staged funnel — inquiry, LOI, inspection, contract, escrow, closing, delivery — so both sides move a purchase forward inside one room with a clear state.
The seller controls the listing lifecycle without ever losing the aircraft: statuses run draft, active, reserved and sold, and the owner can publish, unpublish or delete a listing while the aircraft stays in the garage. The public storefront never exposes the seller object; a computed isOwner flag decides who sees owner actions.
Built for general aviation and for search
This is not a generic asset board. The listing model speaks aircraft: ICAO airport locations searched by code, SMOH, avionics strings, condition grades, and document categories like CoA and Form 337 for piston, turboprop and jet airplanes as well as helicopters.
The storefront is server-rendered (SSR) with ISR revalidation every 120 seconds and a listings cache tag, so bots and buyers receive real grid HTML rather than a skeleton, and the whole interface — including price, hours and file-size formatting — is bilingual EN/RU. Publishing or removing a listing invalidates the cache tag so the storefront stays fresh.
- ICAO airport search for the aircraft location
- SSR storefront, ISR revalidate 120s, cache tag invalidation
- Storefront tab (public active listings) and My Listings tab (all owner statuses)
- Bilingual EN/RU with localized price, time and file-size formatting
How it works
- Pick an aircraft from your garage — the platform pulls model, registration, hours, base, photos and the sealed logbook automatically.
- Set price, currency (USD/EUR/GBP/CHF), price type, condition, SMOH, avionics, ICAO location and a note; watch the live Trust Score update.
- Publish: the SSR storefront revalidates and your listing appears with a compact trust summary on the card.
- Buyers verify email (KYC) to open technical documents in the vault; originals unlock at the deposit tier once the deal reaches escrow.
- A buyer clicks Contact seller to open a deal room and moves through inquiry, LOI, inspection, contract, escrow, closing, delivery.
- Mark the listing reserved during negotiation and sold at closing — the aircraft stays in your garage either way.
FAQ
How is the aircraft Trust Score calculated?
The backend computes it from objective, hashable data: a national registry match (25), sealed logbook records (up to 24), the highest passed inspection level L1–L3 (up to 25), vault documents (up to 12), plus photos, condition and note. The seller cannot set it — the same formula runs live in the sell form.
Who can see the aircraft documents?
The Document Vault has three tiers. Public documents are open to everyone; the technical set unlocks after a buyer verifies email (KYC); originals unlock at the deposit level once a deal reaches escrow. Files are served only via signed URLs that expire after 10 minutes.
Do I have to enter the aircraft data by hand?
No. A listing is bound to an aircraft in your garage, so model, registration, hours, home base, photos and the sealed logbook are pulled automatically. You only add price, condition, avionics, location and an optional note.
What happens to my aircraft when I delete a listing?
The aircraft stays in your garage. Deleting or unpublishing a listing only removes the offer; the aircraft record and its sealed history are untouched and can be listed again later.
Sell with history, not promises
List your aircraft — the Trust Score from sealed records does the convincing.
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