Why Buyers and Sellers Both Win

For buyers

Know the airplane before you own its history.

When you buy an aircraft, you inherit every entry in its record, whether or not anyone showed it to you. A PlaneReports report puts the documented history in front of you before the deposit, not after the surprise.

What the record shows

The paper trail, assembled

Full FAA ownership chain, back to the factory
Recorded liens and security interests, including ones never released
Major repairs and alterations (Form 337s), flagged for review
NTSB accident and incident records
Registration status and airworthiness documents

What that means at the table

Leverage, or an early exit

An open lien found now is the seller's problem to clear, not yours to inherit
A decades-old repair with a clean record since is context, not a mystery
Documentation gaps become questions to ask, in writing, before pre-buy
And when the record is clean, you buy with confidence instead of hope

A PlaneReports report is a documented-history report. It complements a pre-purchase inspection and a review of the original records; it does not replace either.

For sellers

Your record is already public.
Being first to it is the advantage.

The instinct is understandable: why volunteer history that might cost you? Here is the honest answer, and it holds up.

1

Non-participation hides nothing

Your aircraft's records live at the FAA and NTSB, and any serious buyer's title search or records request will surface them during the deal. The only question is whether you or the buyer's title company reads them first.

2

Discovery timing decides outcomes

The worst place to learn about a problem in your own paperwork is the closing table. An unreleased lien discovered by the buyer's search stalls the deal and drains trust. The same lien discovered by you, years earlier, is an afternoon of paperwork with the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch, and the buyer never sees a cloud on the title.

3

Old damage framed beats old damage found

A decades-old repair followed by years of documented service, presented up front, reads as a well-cared-for airplane. The same repair unearthed at pre-buy makes the buyer wonder what else was not mentioned. The seller who leads with the complete record controls the story.

4

Complete documentation is a premium, and now you can prove it

Every broker will tell you complete logs command a better price. Until now, "complete" was a claim. A PlaneReports documentation score is the claim made checkable: this is how much of the record was located and verified, in one number the buyer can see.

A representative example

An owner of six years ran his own tail through PlaneReports and learned two things he never knew: a repair from an accident decades before he bought the airplane, and an open lien still sitting on his title. The lien was almost certainly paid off long ago and simply never released of record. He now has years, not hours, to fix it before he ever sells.

Illustrative composite · no individual owner or aircraft is identified. A named account will run here once the owner's written release is signed.

One report, no sides

PlaneReports is the librarian, not the judge.

Both sides can trust the report for the same reason: it does not have an opinion about your deal. It reports what the documented record contains, states plainly what was checked, and stops there.

What a PlaneReports report is

A compilation of verified FAA and NTSB public records
Plus owner-provided logbooks, when the owner chooses to add them
A documentation score measuring how much of the record was located and verified
The same report, whichever side of the deal orders it

What it is not

Not a statement about condition, value, or safety
Not an airworthiness determination
Not an inspection, an appraisal, or maintenance advice
Not a substitute for a pre-buy or a review of the original records

Owners never lose control of their own contributions: logbooks enter the record only when the owner uploads them, raw member data is never sold, and public showcase of a specific aircraft happens only with the owner's written consent.

Whichever side you're on

Read the record before it reads you.

Buying, selling, or just curious what your own tail number says about you. The report takes minutes, and what it finds is yours to act on.

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