Pricing
Five lines. Two of them are free.
The report is the same whoever buys it: four federal records, each with the date of the file we read, plus the questions to put to the seller and the mechanic — and the page saying what we did not check and where to get it.
Free
No account, no card. Both of these are the whole thing, not a teaser for it.
Free tail lookup
Anyone with a tail number
- Make, model, year and serial from the FAA registration
- Owner of record, registration status and expiry date
- A plain sentence saying what this tail returns before you pay
Mechanic work order
Any mechanic doing a pre-buy inspection
- Every airworthiness directive that names this make and model
- Applicability only — compliance lives in the aircraft's paper records
- A blank sign-off column, in a form you can put in front of the aircraft
For a buyer
One-time purchase. No subscription, no account required.
One aircraft report
A buyer who has picked one aircraft
- Who is on the FAA registration, with make, model, year and serial
- NTSB accidents and incidents matched to the airframe by serial number
- Which airworthiness directives name this make and model
- Changes of registered owner shown in the federal files
- The questions to put to the seller and the mechanic
- One page listing what we checked, what we did not, and where to get it
Three aircraft, one comparison page
A buyer still choosing between three to six aircraft
$26.33 per report
- Who is on the FAA registration, with make, model, year and serial
- NTSB accidents and incidents matched to the airframe by serial number
- Which airworthiness directives name this make and model
- Changes of registered owner shown in the federal files
- The questions to put to the seller and the mechanic
- One page listing what we checked, what we did not, and where to get it
- One comparison page: the tails across the top, the open questions down the side
Not yet available to buy online — email sales@tailcheckai.com and we will set it up.
Broker seat
You pay for the aircraft you have listed — the one number you can check about yourself in a second. We are not selling you records you already hold; we are selling you the list of things the buyer's mechanic will demand on day 40, while there is still time to go and collect the paperwork.
3 aircraft minimum, so $57 to start. Cancel any time.
Billed at the 3-aircraft minimum: $57/month.
- A report on every aircraft you have listed, refreshed monthly
- What the buyer's mechanic will ask you for, before he asks
- Your own company name on the report
- The directive list printed as a work order, with a column for your shop to sign
Not yet available to buy online — email sales@tailcheckai.com and we will set it up.
Something else
A larger book, an integration, or a bulk records job. Tell us what you need and we will price it.
Contact UsWhat is in the report
| Feature | Every TailCheck report |
|---|---|
| Report price | $39 each |
| Broker seat, per listed aircraft | $19/mo |
| FAA Aircraft Registry | Searched |
| NTSB Accident & Incident | Searched |
| Airworthiness Directives (which apply) | Searched |
| FAA Ownership History | Searched |
| Questions for seller & mechanic | |
| Repair & alteration paperwork (337s) | We do not sell this |
| AD compliance status | Logbooks only |
| Lien & title search | We do not sell this |
| Aircraft valuation | We do not sell this |
| Service difficulty reports | We do not sell this |
| Flight activity & dormancy | We do not sell this |
| White-label PDF | Broker seat |
We search every source on this list for your tail, and stamp each one with the date of the file we read. Federal sources are sometimes unreachable — when one is, your report names it and marks that section Not checked. We never report an unreachable source as clean.
Where to get the rows we do not sell. The FAA Aircraft Registration Branch will send the complete record for a tail on CD for about $10. Aero-Space Reports will send the complete record including the repair and alteration paperwork for about $45, usually within a couple of days. The logbooks, read by your A&P/IA at the pre-buy inspection. Take our applicability list with you — it is the checklist that reading is done against. A real title search from an FAA-records title agency in Oklahoma City runs about $85 and takes a day or two. Order one before closing, every time. A certified appraiser, when a certified value is required. For a working figure, the published aircraft price digests and current asking prices for the type.
We receive no commission, referral fee or other consideration from the FAA, from any records agency, title agency or appraiser, or from anyone else named above. We point you at them because that is where the rest of the record actually is.
| Feature | Report |
|---|---|
| Report price | $39 ea |
| Broker seat | $19/mo |
| FAA Registry | Searched |
| NTSB Accidents | Searched |
| ADs (which apply) | Searched |
| Ownership History | Searched |
| Seller questions | |
| 337s / repairs | We do not sell this |
| AD compliance | Logbooks only |
| Lien & Title | We do not sell this |
| Valuation | We do not sell this |
| Service difficulty | We do not sell this |
| Flight activity | We do not sell this |
| White-label | Broker seat |
We search every source on this list for your tail, and stamp each one with the date of the file we read. Federal sources are sometimes unreachable — when one is, your report names it and marks that section Not checked. We never report an unreachable source as clean.
Where to get the rows we do not sell. The FAA Aircraft Registration Branch will send the complete record for a tail on CD for about $10. Aero-Space Reports will send the complete record including the repair and alteration paperwork for about $45, usually within a couple of days. The logbooks, read by your A&P/IA at the pre-buy inspection. Take our applicability list with you — it is the checklist that reading is done against. A real title search from an FAA-records title agency in Oklahoma City runs about $85 and takes a day or two. Order one before closing, every time. A certified appraiser, when a certified value is required. For a working figure, the published aircraft price digests and current asking prices for the type.
We receive no commission, referral fee or other consideration from the FAA, from any records agency, title agency or appraiser, or from anyone else named above. We point you at them because that is where the rest of the record actually is.