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Which aircraft fits the way you fly?

Tell us the trips you actually fly, who is usually aboard and where it would be based. We check every type in our reference catalog against them — and every aircraft Demo Aviation has for sale.

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Choose where you usually fly and we'll measure the trip.
Where do you fly?

ICAO or IATA code, a city or an airport name

ICAO or IATA code, a city or an airport name

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Use this when the trip changes but the distance doesn't.

Leave blank if it's the same trip

Leave blank if it's the same trip

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What this does

Start with a trip you fly often and the most people you take. We work each aircraft type's published range down for the reserves it assumes and the passengers aboard, check the runways you use on a warm day, and only then say whether it fits.

  • Figures are typical for the model, sourced and dated — never a particular aircraft's, and never a valuation.
  • Anything our reference data doesn't have is shown as “couldn't check”, never guessed.
  • Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere until you send the brief yourself.
How we checked
  • Trips are measured great-circle, then +10% for airways and an average wind.
  • Range starts from the published figure, scaled for the reserve it assumes: NBAA IFR reserves count in full, a 45-minute IFR reserve 94%, a 45-minute reserve 86%, no reserve 80%, and an unstated reserve 85%. A figure that states no passenger load at all counts 95%.
  • Each passenger beyond the published load costs 230 lb of fuel, turned into range with the type's fuel burn and cruise speed (jet fuel 6.7 lb per gallon, avgas 6). Without those figures, each extra passenger costs 6% of the range, and the result is marked as estimated.
  • A trip fits when the usable range covers it; within 7% short it is tight, and within 20% it is close. A fuel stop is only ever an airport in our list whose runway works for the type, with both legs in range — where there is none, we say so.
  • Runways are checked on a warm day, 15 °C above standard, which adds 1,800 ft of density altitude to the field's elevation. Each 1,000 ft of density altitude adds 10% to the takeoff distance and 4% to the landing distance.
  • A takeoff figure measured as a ground roll counts 1.6×, and one with no stated basis 1.25×. A runway passes with 15% to spare over the takeoff distance, works at reduced weight down to 80% of it, and must be 1.67× the landing distance for the usual safety margin.
  • Seats are checked against the usual layout first; a high-density layout is tight. Each passenger is counted at 230 lb against the maximum payload where it is published.
  • Budgets use indicative asking ranges for each type, never a valuation: up to 10% over is tight and up to 25% over is close. Aircraft in stock are judged on their real asking price.
  • A stand-up cabin is 5.75 ft or taller.
  • Among the aircraft that fit, range counts for 30 points, cabin 20, budget 15, runway 10 and your priorities 25. Range far beyond the trip scores lower, because unused range costs money.
  • An aircraft bigger than the smallest one that fits loses 8 points per size step (4 when you put cabin comfort or speed first), up to 24. Reference data we are less sure of loses 2 to 6 points, and an estimated range 3.
  • Anything our reference data doesn't have is shown as couldn't check, never guessed. Every figure is typical for the model — verify it for a particular aircraft.

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