Track A Plane is committed to providing a marketplace where aviation buyers, sellers, businesses, professionals, and service providers can connect with greater transparency and awareness.
Aviation transactions can involve significant financial values and highly technical products. Aircraft, engines, components, parts, real estate, services, and employment opportunities may require substantial independent verification and due diligence.
Track A Plane provides the marketplace. You make the transaction decision.
Track A Plane Is a Marketplace — Not a Transaction Guarantor
Track A Plane generally does not own, sell, purchase, broker, inspect, appraise, certify, finance, insure, maintain, repair, or guarantee the aircraft, parts, property, services, employment opportunities, or other items listed by users.
Unless expressly identified otherwise, Track A Plane is not a party to transactions between users.
A listing appearing on Track A Plane does not constitute an endorsement, certification, warranty, inspection, appraisal, or guarantee by Track A Plane.
Aviation Buyer Safety
Before purchasing an aircraft or aviation component, users should perform appropriate due diligence.
Depending on the transaction, this may include:
- Confirming the identity and authority of the seller.
- Verifying ownership and title.
- Reviewing aircraft records and maintenance records.
- Confirming aircraft registration information.
- Reviewing applicable logbooks and historical documentation.
- Confirming total time and component times.
- Verifying serial numbers and part numbers.
- Confirming current condition and status.
- Reviewing applicable airworthiness documentation.
- Verifying applicable FAA, EASA, or other regulatory documentation.
- Conducting an appropriate pre-buy inspection.
- Obtaining an independent inspection by a qualified aviation professional.
- Confirming liens, encumbrances, or other ownership issues.
- Verifying delivery location and terms.
- Confirming payment instructions independently.
- Using qualified legal, technical, financial, and aviation professionals when appropriate.
The appropriate level of due diligence depends on the transaction.
Aircraft Parts Safety
Aircraft parts can have significant safety, regulatory, traceability, and airworthiness implications.
Users should independently verify:
- Part number.
- Alternate part numbers.
- Serial number where applicable.
- Manufacturer.
- Condition.
- Traceability.
- Certification documentation.
- FAA Form 8130-3 or other applicable documentation where applicable.
- EASA Form 1 or other applicable documentation where applicable.
- Repair or overhaul documentation.
- Shelf-life limitations.
- Manufacture date.
- Expiration date.
- Modification status.
- Applicability.
- Compatibility.
- Storage conditions.
- Quantity.
- Warranty.
- Exchange or core requirements.
- Seller identity and authorization.
A part's condition designation does not, by itself, establish airworthiness, eligibility for installation, traceability, or regulatory acceptance.
Beware of Payment Fraud
Never assume that payment instructions received by email are legitimate.
Before sending a large payment:
- Verify the identity of the person or company you are dealing with.
- Independently obtain the counterparty's telephone number.
- Call using a trusted telephone number rather than a number contained only in a suspicious email.
- Confirm payment instructions verbally.
- Be especially cautious if bank instructions suddenly change.
- Be cautious of requests for cryptocurrency, gift cards, personal accounts, or unusual payment methods.
- Do not provide passwords or authentication codes.
- Do not allow urgency or pressure to replace normal due diligence.
Track A Plane does not guarantee the identity, financial standing, authority, or legitimacy of a marketplace participant merely because that participant has an account or listing.
Common Warning Signs
Exercise additional caution when a person:
- Pressures you to act immediately.
- Offers a price significantly outside expected market conditions without a reasonable explanation.
- Refuses normal documentation or inspection.
- Refuses reasonable identity verification.
- Requests payment to an unrelated person or entity.
- Requests cryptocurrency without a legitimate, independently verified reason.
- Requests gift cards.
- Requests payment to a personal account for a business transaction.
- Provides inconsistent company information.
- Uses email addresses that do not correspond with the claimed business.
- Refuses telephone or video communication.
- Provides documents that appear altered or inconsistent.
- Claims that normal due diligence is unnecessary.
- Asks you to bypass normal aviation, regulatory, financial, or contractual procedures.
These circumstances do not necessarily establish fraud, but they warrant additional verification.
Protect Your Account
Users should:
- Use a strong, unique password.
- Avoid sharing passwords.
- Avoid reusing Track A Plane passwords on other websites.
- Protect email accounts associated with Track A Plane.
- Use multi-factor authentication where available.
- Keep devices and browsers reasonably current.
- Avoid logging into accounts through suspicious links.
- Review account activity periodically.
- Report suspicious activity promptly.
Track A Plane will never intentionally request your password through an unsolicited email.
Report Suspicious Activity
If you believe a listing, account, message, website, email, or transaction involving Track A Plane may be fraudulent or otherwise suspicious:
security@trackaplane.com
For a specific listing, include the listing URL or listing number whenever possible.
Security Vulnerabilities
If you believe you have identified a technical security vulnerability involving Track A Plane, please report it responsibly to:
security@trackaplane.com
Please provide:
- A description of the suspected vulnerability.
- The affected page or feature.
- Steps necessary to reproduce the issue, if known.
- Screenshots or supporting information where appropriate.
- Your contact information.
Do not access, modify, delete, download, or disclose another person's information while investigating a suspected vulnerability.
Security Limitations
Track A Plane takes reasonable measures appropriate to the nature of the information and services it operates, but no website, network, database, transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should also take reasonable steps to protect their own accounts, devices, communications, and financial information.
Aviation Due Diligence
The aviation industry involves specialized technical and regulatory requirements.
Track A Plane encourages users to obtain independent professional assistance when appropriate, including from:
- Aviation attorneys.
- Aircraft brokers.
- Aircraft inspectors.
- A&P mechanics.
- IA-qualified professionals.
- Designated airworthiness professionals.
- Aviation appraisers.
- Title and escrow professionals.
- Insurance professionals.
- Tax professionals.
- Other qualified aviation specialists.
Track A Plane
Our goal is simple:
Connect the aviation community. Encourage informed transactions. Promote responsible marketplace participation.
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