Support built around your aircraft.
No two aircraft create the same management workload. The appropriate service level depends on aircraft complexity, utilization, home base, records condition, maintenance-program enrollment, crew structure and the amount of operational support requested.
Final pricing is confirmed after an initial management consultation.
Aircraft Oversight
Professional oversight of the aircraft for owners and existing flight departments that already handle their own pilots and trips.
Aircraft Oversight is intended for an owner, owner-pilot or existing flight department that wants professional maintenance, records and vendor oversight without outsourcing its entire operation.
- Maintenance due-list oversight
- Scheduled-maintenance planning
- Unscheduled-maintenance coordination
- Maintenance-shop scheduling
- Review of maintenance proposals and invoices
- Airframe and engine program coordination
- Coordination of AD and service-information tracking
- Logbook and document organization
- Subscription and database administration
- Annual maintenance forecast
- Monthly aircraft-status report
- Administrative coordination with owners, insurers and vendors
Crew management and trip support are not included in this plan.
Full Part 91 Management
One accountable management contact for the aircraft and the day-to-day ownership operation.
Full Part 91 Management gives the owner one accountable management contact for the aircraft and the day-to-day ownership operation. Includes everything in Aircraft Oversight, plus:
- Annual operating budget
- Monthly expense reporting
- Invoice reconciliation
- Crew-document administration
- Training, medical and currency tracking
- Pilot scheduling
- Backup-crew coordination
- Fuel and FBO coordination
- Catering and ground-logistics coordination
- Passenger-preference administration
- Insurance-renewal coordination
- Unscheduled maintenance and AOG response coordination
- Monthly owner briefing
- Annual operating review
Private Flight Department
Expanded support for higher-utilization, multi-crew or more operationally complex aircraft.
Private Flight Department support is intended for higher-utilization, multi-crew or more operationally complex aircraft. The final scope may include:
- Crew recruiting and onboarding
- Employment, payroll and benefits coordination
- Multi-pilot scheduling
- SOP and safety-program support
- Domestic and international trip coordination
- Expanded after-hours coordination
- Detailed financial forecasting
- Acquisition and ownership planning
- Major maintenance and refurbishment management
- Supplemental-lift coordination
A custom proposal is prepared after reviewing the aircraft and intended operation.
New management engagements may require a one-time onboarding fee starting at $2,500, depending on aircraft complexity, records condition and required setup.
Project and à-la-carte support.
Owners and existing flight departments can also engage Kitchen Aircraft Management for focused projects without entering a complete-management arrangement. Each project is quoted before work begins.
- Aircraft onboarding and operational baseline
- Maintenance-records organization
- Major-inspection oversight
- Maintenance quote and invoice review
- Annual maintenance and ownership budgeting
- Acquisition and prebuy coordination
- Aircraft delivery and entry into service
- Crew search and recruiting coordination
- Contract-pilot coordination
- Dry-lease administrative coordination
- Existing flight-department support
Dry-lease support is limited to administrative coordination within structures reviewed and approved by qualified aviation counsel.
Kitchen Aircraft Management does not sell transportation, sell individual seats, bundle an aircraft and crew as charter, or replace the legal advice required to structure a dry lease.
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