Aircraft
Piston singles and twins, turboprops, light jets, helicopters.
Fields on every file
Logbooks decide aircraft value. You record airframe time, time since engine overhaul, avionics, and damage history as separate facts, because a lender or buyer asks about each one on its own, and an appraisal that cannot answer is not an appraisal.
- Tail number, serial number, make, model
- Airframe total time
- Time since engine and propeller overhaul
- Avionics inventory
- Damage history and airworthiness directive compliance
Governing standard
USPAP Standards 7 and 8
Airframe, engine, and propeller times run against their overhaul limits with the adjustment each drives, the logbook review and airworthiness directive compliance are stated, and the report says whether the inspection was desktop or physical.
Credentials
- Required to practice
- PAAO accreditation
- Optional designations
- Certified Aircraft Appraiser
Source documents
Registrations, airframe and engine logbooks, avionics invoices, maintenance records, prior appraisals.
Report types
- Fair market value
- Insurance
- Pre-purchase
- Estate
The finished report
A times table sets airframe, engine, and propeller against their limits, and avionics appear as an itemized value contributor.
Every report prints the cover, letter of transmittal, executive summary, subject identification, assignment and scope of work, condition analysis, methodology, comparable analysis, reconciliation, certification, signature, sources, supporting documents, the legal notice, the appraiser certification appendix, and a verification page whose QR code resolves to the record.