Wingfleet Flying Club is really ideal for many types of pilots, but most notably those who wish to fly high-quality aircraft, but only fly appx 50-100 hours per year. This applies to plane owners too!

You can turn your under-utilized high-quality aircraft into income and gain access to additional planes!

We all know that with the fixed costs of ownership, a pilot really needs to fly 100, 150, even 200 hours per year to make economic sense. With insurance, tiedown, annual maintenance, and operating costs, it's difficult to go it alone.

Until now, owners of high-end GA aircraft, such as Bonanza/210/Saratoga class aircraft had no way to share expenses, other than selling a share of their plane. With complex ownership comes complex relationships, and too often, complex disagreements. Some pilots have attempted FBO leaseback scenarios and found their planes suffering under the hammer blow of 1,200-hour per year duty cycles. Wingfleet represents a happy medium between both of these extremes.

We think we have a better way. By sharing your aircraft for use in the flying club, you are guaranteed the following:

A pool of highly-qualified and respectful pilots, no primary training activity.

A natural limit to duty cycles, and a limit of 10 pilots per aircraft.

Insurance and fixed costs are spread across a group of pilots.

Operating expenses are spread across a group of pilots.

As an owner, your admission to the club is free, gaining you access to our other excellent aircraft. Choose the right for the mission, rather than bend the mission to your plane!

For popular or well-subscribed aircraft, either enjoy having your own flight expenses paid, or fly more often using the residual income. It's your choice!

Here's a typical scenario:



Share your Beech Baron B55 with the club.

Cancel your existing insurance policy	+$2,000
Join commercial fleet club policy	-$8,000
5 members contribute dues of $250/mo (estimated)	+$15,000
200 hours of added flight time @ $99/hr dry (estimated)	+$19,800
Annual, maintenance expenses	$10,000
Engine reserves @ 2 x $20/hr x 200 hours	$8,000
Funds available to owner annually	$7,800
Annual, all maintenance, all insurance paid for!

Obviously there are a lot of variables, and aircraft can be complex instruments when used as an investment, but you gain our 6 years of experience in aircraft and savvy maintenance management, customer service, computerized scheduling and billing. We will give you the information and historical performance data that you need to make the correct choice.

We truly believe that this is a win-win for everyone involved.

Feel free to contact us if you would like to learn more, or discuss locating an aircraft as a club property.