Stop Estimating.
Start Deciding.
Legacy tools tell you what an aircraft costs to operate. AviaCost tells you which aircraft or ownership structure is right for your mission — with dynamic modeling, side-by-side comparisons, and client-ready reports built for how aviation professionals actually work.
A decision platform,
not just a cost database
Legacy platforms like Conklin & de Decker were built for static benchmarking — they answer "what does this aircraft cost to operate?" AviaCost is built to answer a much harder question:
That's a different category of software. AviaCost moves aviation cost analysis from reference database → dynamic ownership intelligence platform — purpose-built for the decisions brokers, advisors, flight departments, and family offices actually face.
Every cost, every variable,
one screen
The Analytic Dashboard is your aircraft's complete financial command center. Enter any aircraft, set your utilization levels and fuel assumptions, and instantly see the full ownership picture — from hourly variable costs to annual budget totals.
- Hourly costs: fuel burn, airframe & engine/APU maintenance
- Annual fixed costs: captain & co-pilot salary, crew training, hangar, insurance
- Annual variable costs & total budget with monthly breakdown
- Editable payment schedule and residual value panels
- Toggle between Charter Mode and Finance Mode to model scenarios
- Instant Imperial/Metric and 20+ global currency switching
Put the numbers
head to head
Stack unlimited aircraft side by side in a comprehensive cost table. From fuel and maintenance to crew salaries, hangar, and total annual budget — everything your client needs to make a confident decision, formatted for immediate comprehension.
- Annual variable costs: fuel, airframe & engine/APU maintenance per aircraft
- Full annual fixed cost breakdown: salaries, training, hangar, insurance
- Total annual budget and monthly cost per aircraft, side by side
- Charter Mode adjusts costs to show revenue offsets in real time
- Export to CSV or print directly — ready for any client meeting
Performance & cabin specs
in a single table
Go beyond operating costs. The Spec Comparison table layers in every technical dimension of the aircraft — so you can evaluate range, speed, cabin volume, avionics, and market pricing alongside cost data. The full picture in one place.
- Variable cost data: airframe, engine/APU, and fuel per hour
- Cabin dimensions: height, width, length, and cubic volume
- Range, ferry range, block speed, cruise speed, and service ceiling
- Avionics suite, powerplant model, max takeoff weight, and field performance
- Average pre-owned market price and years in production
Justify private aviation
with real numbers
The Trip Cost calculator is one of the most powerful tools in the AviaCost platform. It doesn't just calculate flight cost — it models the total value equation of private aviation vs. commercial travel, factoring in executive time, overnight costs, and trip efficiency.
- Enter trip distance, block speed, and aircraft to get total trip cost instantly
- Input commercial air costs, overnight expenses, and executive count
- Assign a dollar value to executive time saved per hour
- Outputs: all-in commercial cost vs. private aircraft cost vs. net savings
- Flip the ROI narrative — show clients what private aviation actually saves
- Includes integrated flight time calculator for mission planning
Model IRS depreciation
in seconds
Aircraft depreciation is one of the most significant — and most overlooked — factors in ownership economics. AviaCost's Depreciation tool lets you model MACRS schedules across Part 91, Part 135, and Bonus depreciation with one click, showing the true adjusted cost per flight hour.
- One-click population of IRS MACRS Part 91, Part 135, or Bonus schedules
- 8-year year-by-year depreciation rate, value, and cumulative tables
- Adjusted cost per hour calculated at 40% effective tax rate
- Fully editable rate fields for custom depreciation modeling
- Export to CSV or print — designed to complement your tax advisor's work
Client-ready reports.
In seconds.
Legacy platforms generated reports for internal analysis. AviaCost was built to produce client-facing deliverables — professional, branded, and presentation-ready. Select your aircraft, choose your sections, add your logo, and generate a board-quality report on demand.
Choose your AviaCost plan
Aviation Intelligence Platform — Ownership, Fractional & Flight Intelligence in one platform.
- Ownership modeling
- Trip cost analysis
- Full aircraft database
- Unlimited reports
- Everything in Monthly
- Advanced ownership modeling
- Charter revenue mode
- Branded PDF reports
- Everything in Annual
- Fractional comparison data
- NetJets / Flexjet modeling
- Up to 10 team logins
- White-label branding
- Multi-aircraft compare (5)
- Priority support
- Everything in AviaCost Core
- Unlimited model lookups & broker specs
- Verified asking & sold prices
- Aircraft availability & days-on-market
- Price-change & listing-status alerts
- Unlimited contact visibility
- Unlimited PDF market reports
- 5 full-time dedicated researchers
- Family-office branding — custom logo on reports & UI
- Up to 10 team logins
- Priority support
- Fractional program analysis
- Share cost modeling
- NetJets / Flexjet comparison
- Single user access
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What aviation professionals
are saying
"AviaCost has completely changed how we present aircraft acquisition proposals. Clients walk away understanding the full ownership picture — costs, depreciation, trip analysis — in one polished document."
"As a CFO evaluating a flight department, this gave us the financial rigor our board demanded. The branded report went straight into our board deck. It looked like something our investment bank produced."
"Comparing a King Air against a Phenom 300 against a fractional share used to take me a full day. AviaCost does it in five minutes with data I can stand behind in front of any sophisticated buyer."
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The next evolution of
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