FOR AIRCRAFT DEALERS & BROKERS
Five Falcon 7Xs are for sale. You can show which one has been flown gently.
Spotlight puts a tail against the aircraft it’s competing with — same window, same method, read from the flight record rather than the spec sheet.
Checking is free. You see what evidence exists for a tail before you order anything.
A spec sheet says what an aircraft is.
The flight record says what it has done.
WHAT YOU CAN’T CURRENTLY SHOW
Two aircraft, same type, same year, similar hours. One has been flown on long legs by a single operator. The other has been doing short hops on charter.
Everyone in the market knows that difference matters. Nobody can put a number on it — so the conversation falls back to total hours, which measures volume and says nothing about wear.
Hours don't separate anything
Two tails at 3,200 hours can have had completely different lives. Hours are the only figure everyone quotes, and the least informative one.
Comparisons aren't like-for-like
Every listing quotes a different window. Nobody is measuring the same thing over the same period.
The quiet periods sit unexplained
Every aircraft has gaps. Some are the home base at Christmas. Some are eleven weeks at a field nobody can account for. They look identical on a spec sheet.
TWO PRODUCTS, ONE DATA SET
Spotlight — one tail against its competitive set
Add up to five registrations. Same window, same method, every tail measured against its own type.
Wear and workload separated: cycles per 100 block hours and short-hop share on one axis, movements, hours and days flown on another. Longest quiet period for each tail, measured against that tail’s own rhythm and classified — home base, known MRO, or unexplained.
TailCheck — the full record for one aircraft
Twenty months of movement history, route corridors, modelled time and cycles, use-type read, and a leg-by-leg log. Each finding graded and expandable to the evidence underneath.
25
DAYS · KHPN
Home base. Consistent with this tail's normal dwell pattern.
NOTHING TO EXPLAIN
19
DAYS · KVNY
Known MRO field. Consistent with a scheduled inspection window.
NOTHING TO EXPLAIN
59
DAYS · EHGG
6× this tail's own average gap. Field unclassified — neither base nor known MRO.
NEEDS AN ANSWER
71
DAYS · KOPF
9× this tail's own average gap. No known MRO at this field.
NEEDS AN ANSWER
44
DAYS · LFPB
5× this tail's own average gap. Field unclassified.
NEEDS AN ANSWER
FROM A LIVE BOARD
4.7 movements a month. And 92nd percentile on the metric that predicts wear.
A buyer will read the movement count first and call it heavily flown. The counter is on the same board: cycles per 100 block hours, where this tail sits in the top decile for gentleness against its own type.
Both figures are tracked. Neither is an opinion. The board shows them side by side, so the conversation happens on evidence.
PH-GWS · 59 DAYS · EHGG
6× this tail's own average gap. Field unclassified — neither base nor known MRO.
NEEDS AN ANSWERN606TJ · 25 DAYS · KHPN
Home base. Consistent with this tail's normal dwell pattern.
NOTHING TO EXPLAINWhere dealers use it
WHEN
Pitching for a mandate
WHAT YOU GET
Walk in with the aircraft already benchmarked against the tails it will compete with. Where it wins, and what a buyer will lead with.
WHEN
Taking a tail on
WHAT YOU GET
See the operating history before you commit inventory or agree terms.
WHEN
Writing the listing
WHAT YOU GET
Specific, evidenced claims. Not "well maintained" — 92nd percentile on cycles per 100 block hours, against 501 active aircraft of type.
WHEN
Handling the first call
WHAT YOU GET
The buyer's likely objection and the honest answer, both prepared. Including where the other tails read better.
WHEN
Watching the market
WHAT YOU GET
Any rival listing, same method. What's genuinely gentle, and what has a quiet period nobody has accounted for.
WHERE THE LINE SITS
Read from the aircraft, not the broker sheet.
Read from ADS‑B position broadcasts — the same signal air traffic control sees. Every figure states its own tracked coverage, and thin-history tails are shown unranked rather than given a percentile they haven’t earned.
IT SHOWS
- Observed activity and geography
- Utilisation against the fleet, by type
- Wear and workload, separated
- Changes in operating rhythm
- Records worth requesting
IT DOES NOT
- Judge mechanical condition
- Verify logged hours or cycles
- Explain why a gap happened
- Value or price an aircraft
- Replace an inspection
A record you can hand to a client. It doesn’t argue a case — it states what the track shows and where it stops.
Three minutes, start to board.
01
Add registrations
See what evidence exists for each tail, free.
02
Build the board
Same window, same method, percentiles against type.
03
Take it into the room
The figures, the questions, and the answers.
Pricing
Unlimited tails and comparison boards. Three seats. Cancel any time.
Fair use: 200 full records a month, higher on request.
One full record. Comparisons against tails you own included.