Aircraft Partnership Association Aims To Link Interested Owners | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-10.28.24

Airborne-NextGen-10.29.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.30.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.24.24

Airborne-Unlimited-10.25.24

Sun, Apr 27, 2008

Aircraft Partnership Association Aims To Link Interested Owners

Hopes To Facilitate Private Plane Partnerships

Last week, a group called the Aircraft Partnership Association (APA) launched a new program to help more pilots achieve their dream of aircraft ownership by using technology to facilitate forming private partnerships.

Of course, the concept of forming a partnership to share expenses is not new... but often, what starts as a great idea proves to be not entirely successful in the long run. The Association says often, trying to form a private partnership on an ad hoc basis rarely seems to get off the ground... and before too long, the dream of ownership fades.

To alleviate those problems -- and keep everyone involved happy, and flying -- APA uses web-based programs to help identify and match potential partners based on member profiles that include the type of aircraft desired, location, flying experience and more. The entire matching/selection process occurs on-line before potential partners ever meet.

"Trying to find suitable aircraft partners by posting a flyer at your local airport or on isolated websites is tremendously ineffective," said David A. Kruger, President of APA. "This is exactly why there aren’t more successful private partnerships."

For a relatively small annual fee -- $29 -- APA allows members to post their partnership profile on a searchable database, where other APA members can also search for like-minded aviators.

"We believe that the there are two keys to success," Kruger said. "First is to quickly build the membership database; every new member increases the odds of finding partners,” Kruger said. "Consequently, we’re offering a launch promotion of $10 off of our regular $29 annual membership; that’s a year membership for less than 4 gallons of fuel -- for every pilot interested in exploring how to share the total cost of ownership on any aircraft in any market.

"The second key is to create an inexpensive on-line forum to create and then manage the partnership," he concluded.

APA aims to launch new services later this year, geared toward aircraft flight scheduling, maintenance recordkeeping, bookkeeping and more.

FMI: www.theapa.com

Advertisement

More News

Senator Pushes FAA to Accelerate Rocket Launch Licensing

States That Current Process is Damaging National Aerospace Development US Senator Jerry Morgan is pushing the FAA to speed up the process for rocket launch licensing. He argues tha>[...]

Classic Aero-TV: RJ Gritter - Part of Aviation’s Bright New Future

From 2015 (YouTube Edition): Model Aviator Aims For Full-Scale Career While at the 2015 Indoor Electric RC Festival, referred to as eFest, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell>[...]

Aero-FAQ: Dave Juwel's Aviation Marketing Stories -- ITBOA BNITBOB

Dave Juwel's Aviation Marketing Stories ITBOA BNITBOB ... what does that mean? It's not gibberish, it's a lengthy acronym for "In The Business Of Aviation ... But Not In The Busine>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.27.24)

Aero Linx: Cardinal Flyers Online The Cardinal Flyers Online Web site was created and is maintained by me, Keith Peterson. My wife Debbie and I have owned a 1976 RG since 1985. Wit>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.27.24): Clearance Void If Not Off By (Time)

Clearance Void If Not Off By (Time) Used by ATC to advise an aircraft that the departure release is automatically canceled if takeoff is not made prior to a specified time. The exp>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC