Aircraft research and a mission planner that turn early questions into a clear brief
Buying or selling an aircraft starts long before anyone talks numbers. A buyer has to work out what the aircraft really needs to do. A seller has to get organized. Both get more out of the first professional conversation when they arrive prepared. Aircraft Sales Corp is the research website I built for that early stage.
At a glance
Project: My own aviation research website
- Type: Research website with a browser-based planning tool
- My role: Concept, guide content structure, development of the website, planner and supporting application
- Status: Live
- Built with: Python web server; SQLite; HTML and CSS; JavaScript browser tools
- Website: aircraftsalescorp.com
Three journeys: buyers, sellers and partners
A buyer, an owner thinking about selling, and an aviation professional looking to work together all need different things from the same site. Each has their own path, with their own guides and an inquiry form that asks questions suited to their situation. Visitors aren't pushed through one generic form, and inquiries arrive with the right context.
Model research from piston aircraft to private jets
The site includes original research guides across piston aircraft, turboprops and private jets. The research is about aircraft types, separate from any listing, so it stays useful whatever happens to be on the market that week. A visitor can learn what a category offers before they get pulled into individual aircraft.
The mission planner
The planner is the center of the site. In the browser, a visitor records what they need the aircraft to do, compares candidate models and collects the questions they want to ask. The planner assembles all of it into an organized brief they can take into a conversation with a broker, inspector or other aviation professional.
Visitors can choose to save their plan in their own browser and pick it up later. Nobody has to create an account to start planning.
A private application for partnerships
Behind the public website, I built a separate private application to support the business side: finding potential partners, reviewing what's known about them and organizing the pipeline. It runs apart from the public site, so internal records stay internal.
Technology and what it does here
Python web server: Built on Python's standard library, which keeps the server small with few outside dependencies
- SQLite: Storage for inquiries and the private partnership application
- HTML and CSS: The public research guides and journey pages
- JavaScript browser tools: The mission planner, model comparisons and optional in-browser saving
Do your customers need to plan before they buy?
Any significant purchase works better when the customer arrives prepared, whether it's an aircraft, machinery or a technical service. I can build planning tools that turn a customer's loose requirements into a brief your team can work with.
Screenshot includes aircraft photo by Acroterion / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Original photo.
