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Aviation assets, reviewed on the records.
Airplanes, turboprops, piston aircraft, helicopters, corporate fleets, engines and related aviation assets — with clear pathways for owners, corporations, trustees and brokers.
Submit an Aircraft for Preliminary ReviewAviation assets are reviewed the way a careful buyer's technical representative would review them: times, inspection position, airworthiness directive compliance, damage history and the completeness of the logbooks. This site serves the full breadth of general and corporate aviation, with pathways for individual owners, corporations, trustees and the brokers and advisers who bring them.
What we review in this category
How this differs from a jet review
DonateAJet.com is built for private jets and business aircraft and for the discretion those conversations require. This site is the broader technical intake: piston singles, turboprops, helicopters, project airframes, engines and components, and the adviser-facing documentation that goes with them. If you own a business jet, the jet review is the better starting point; everything else belongs here.
Aircraft documentation checklist
Bring what exists, and say plainly what does not: airworthiness certificate, registration certificate, aircraft and engine logbooks, weight and balance records, equipment list, current annual or inspection sign-off, airworthiness directive compliance list, major repair and alteration forms, supplemental type certificate paperwork, avionics installation records, engine and propeller overhaul documentation, and any pre-purchase or appraisal report already in hand.
Maintenance status checklist
Time since new and since overhaul on airframe, engines and propellers; hot section and inspection intervals; calendar-limited items; ELT and pitot-static currency; corrosion findings; deferred items and open squawks; and whether the aircraft has flown within the last ninety days. Each of these is verified against records rather than recollection.
FAA title and registration, subject to counsel
Registration, recorded liens and title history are researched through FAA records and an aviation title company, and are subject to review by aviation counsel. Statements on this page describe the process only and are not legal advice about your aircraft. International registry and non-U.S. registration matters are handled by counsel as well.
Non-airworthy aircraft and projects
Aircraft that are out of annual, partially disassembled, or missing records are reviewed with ferry, storage, teardown and parts-disposition costs in view. These are not automatically declined, but they are evaluated realistically.
Professional referral intake
Advisers may open a review on a client's behalf. We will confirm the client's authority directly before proceeding, keep the adviser copied on the matter, and never characterize a tax result to a client, since valuation and deduction questions remain with the adviser and the donor.
Pathways
Individual owners
A single owner of record, often with an aircraft that is flown less each year while hangar and insurance costs keep arriving. Bring the logbooks and the current annual status; most of the first conversation lives in those two things.
Corporations and flight departments
Corporate aircraft carry board authority questions, depreciation and accounting considerations, employee use history and often a management agreement. Identify who has authority to approve a transfer before the review invests in records work.
Trustees, estates and fiduciaries
Aircraft held in owner trusts, estates or by a fiduciary require the governing instrument, evidence of authority and, frequently, beneficiary consent. Fiduciaries also carry a duty to document how a charitable disposition was evaluated, and the review is built to support that record.
Brokers, dealers and advisers
Professionals often bring a client who has an aircraft that has not sold, has a records problem, or no longer fits. Referral intake is welcome; tell us your role, whether you hold a listing agreement, and what your client has already been told, so that nothing we say conflicts with your advice.
Information the review requires
- Registration mark, serial number, make, model and year.
- Airframe, engine and propeller times, plus time since overhaul.
- Current annual, 100-hour, progressive or inspection program status.
- Airworthiness directive and service bulletin compliance records.
- Logbook completeness, with any gaps identified honestly.
- Damage, corrosion and repair history, including any 337 forms.
- Recorded liens, security interests and registration history.
- Hangar or tie-down location, monthly cost and who holds the agreement.
- Insurance status and whether the aircraft is currently flyable.
Questions specific to this category
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Organizational information, governance and the full review process are published at MustardFarms.org. Program information is at CommissaryGrant.com.
Mustard Farms does not provide legal, tax, appraisal or financial advice. Proposed gifts are subject to legal, financial, title, environmental, operational and governing-body review and written acceptance. Donors should consult independent advisers.
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