For pre-owned aircraft brokers
Type an N-number. Taildesk pulls the FAA record, proposes the model and the specification, and hands back a designed spec sheet, a branded listing page on your own domain, and share links you can actually track. Minutes, not an afternoon.
Lookup is free, no account · Registry refreshed nightly
Tail number
Matched · FAA master
Listing
Tampa, FL (KTPA) · Serial 2450
Asking
$5,795,000
Sequence
The order never changes, which is the point — the same path every time, whether it is a King Air or a Global.
01
An N-number is enough. Taildesk reads the FAA master record, the type certificate behind it and the engine on file, then proposes the model from the catalog.
02
Drop in the seller's sheet and the extractor proposes the rest. Every field carries where it came from and whether it still needs a look — and nothing you have confirmed is ever overwritten.
03
One switch turns the draft into a spec sheet PDF, a listing page on your own brokerage site, and an export pack built to each venue's import order.
04
Every recipient gets their own link. You see who opened it, how long they stayed, which documents they read and who took the PDF.
FAA registry
Half of building a listing is copying facts off a registration certificate. Taildesk keeps the registry in the building, so that half is done before you start typing.
The whole FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, ingested nightly — not a lookup API metered by the call.
Registration, serial, year, airworthiness, type certificate and the engine on file, mapped to the registry's own header names.
Change watch: when the registrant or the status moves on an aircraft you have linked, it is waiting for you the next morning.
Overnight, on your aircraft
N245HC
Registrant name and certificate issue date changed on the FAA master record.
You find out an aircraft changed hands from your own dashboard, rather than from the buyer who noticed first.
What ships
One confirmed specification, and then every artefact a deal needs comes off it — so they can never disagree with each other.
Spec sheet
Cover photo, the key-numbers strip, two-column spec pages, your photographs, your contact block, your disclaimer. Letter and A4. Your brand kit sets the colour, the logo and the type.
Every sheet is snapshotted and the snapshots are append-only — the sheet you sent in March is still exactly the sheet you sent in March.
Share links
One link per recipient. Opens, minutes of attention, which documents were opened and who downloaded the PDF — all of it against a name, not a spreadsheet of anonymous hits.
Links expire and revoke. Gated documents stay gated until you say otherwise.
Venue packs
Controller, AvBuyer, GlobalAir and Trade-A-Plane. Each pack is the venue’s own CSV columns, the same record as JSON, your photographs in listing order, and a README saying what to do with them.
n245hc-controller.zip ├─ controller.csv venue column order ├─ controller.json ├─ photos/ │ ├─ 01-n245hc.jpg │ └─ 02-n245hc.jpg └─ README.txt
A pack goes stale only when its contents actually change, so it stops nagging you about edits the venue would never see.
Want lists
Keep what each buyer is looking for — type, year band, hours, budget, base — and the moment a listing goes active it is scored against every want list you hold.
A buyer is emailed at most once per listing, however many of their want lists fit. Nobody gets four copies of the same aeroplane.
Your site
Every active listing publishes to a branded inventory page and a listing page on your brokerage’s own domain, with your logo, your colour and your contact block. Enquiries come back as leads, attached to the aircraft they came from. Off-market listings never appear.
Type any US tail number and see the FAA registration, the type certificate behind it, the engine on file and the specification that model usually carries. No account, no card.