About · Why Wingbase exists

Own it, fly it, sell it. Without the paperwork tax.

We're a small team of pilots, owners, and software people building the tools we wished existed when we were logging hours, splitting expenses, and trying to buy or sell an airplane without giving up 6% to someone who played telephone for six weeks.

THE WHY
Est. 2026

Everyone on the team has owned, partnered on, bought, or sold an airplane. Every single one of those experiences taught us something that was broken — and fixable.

Brokers still operate on a model from 1985. Escrow runs on wire confirmations read aloud over the phone. Logbooks live in shoeboxes. Partnerships settle up on the back of a napkin — or don't.

The day-to-day isn't much better. Logging time across a partnership. Reconciling who paid for what fuel, which hangar months, which annual. Producing something a CPA can actually work with at tax time. The tools we found were either outdated, overpriced, or both. Nothing felt built for how ownership actually works.

Nobody had built a modern interface between buyer and seller — a place where the logbook speaks for itself, the maintenance history is legible, and you can talk to the other side of the transaction without a middleman skimming six figures off the top.

So we're building it. The tool we wished existed when we owned, flew, partnered, and sold.

What we're building toward
Buying a plane should feel
like buying a Tesla.
Selling one should feel
like Carvana took it off your hands.

A marketplace with real transparency between buyer and seller. A logbook your CPA can open without calling you. A partnership ledger that settles itself. An open, trusted community where a verified history means something — and getting to a deal doesn't require a broker holding all the cards.

Transparency, always

Every document, every timeline, every number visible to both sides. No third party controlling what you see.

Priced fairly, once

A flat monthly fee per tail. No commission on sales. No premium placement. No upsells.

Built with the community

Open schemas for logs and maintenance. Your data is yours. Trust is earned publicly.

The problems we're solving

In plain language.

None of these are glamorous. All of them cost owners money, time, and goodwill with their A&P, their CPA, and their partners. Wingbase exists to remove the friction from each one.

.01
Logging time across a partnership
Hobbs-weighted splits, one shared timeline, per-flight or monthly.
.02
Reconciling expenses
Fuel, ramp, hangar, annual — all categorized, exportable.
.03
A real system of record for your CPA
Full-year P&L per tail. Schedule C-ready. Audit trail intact.
.04
Selling without a 6% broker
Verified logbook, direct buyer communication, escrow pass-through at cost.
.05
Buyer trust, without handshakes
Machine-verified flight & maintenance history travels with the aircraft.
.06
Knowing what your airplane is worth
Comps from real transactions, not asking prices that never closed.
How we work

Four things we won't compromise on.

We're small on purpose. Staying small is the only way we get to keep these promises. When a decision gets hard, these are the four we come back to.

.01
Ship small, ship often
A tiny team means no roadmaps written in ink. If something is broken or slow or ugly, the fix lands this week.
.02
Talk to owners
We fly to airparks, sit in hangars, and read every support thread. The product is a direct transcript of those conversations.
.03
No dark patterns
No auto-renew traps. No “contact sales.” No commission hidden inside a fee. Cancel in two clicks.
.04
Your data is yours
CSV export on every screen. Open schemas for logbooks and maintenance. If you leave, you leave with everything.
The team

Small team.
Owner-operators.

We're pilots and software people who also happen to own airplanes. Every feature comes from a real ownership headache we've lived through. If you have a thought about what we should build next — tell us directly. A person reads everything.

.01
single digits
People on the team
.02
40+
Years of combined ownership
.03
11
Tails flown between us
.04
< 24
Hours responding to email
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