Built around how aviation operations work on the ramp.

AirPlx builds aviation operations software for FBOs and MROs. We build it by spending time on the ramp and in the hangar, with the people doing the work.

An AirPlx team member in a high-visibility vest standing on the hangar door rail, sighting a laser rangefinder across the ramp, with business jets and hangars beyond — On location, measuring hangar and ramp dimensions.

How it started

It started over lunch.

Kyle was trying to figure out how to fit that night's aircraft inside his hangar. His planning tool was Microsoft Paint.

That conversation became the original idea behind AirPlx: there had to be a better way to plan a complex aviation operation than dragging rectangles around in Paint.

Since then we have seen the same night planned with cardboard cut-outs, PowerPoint, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and years of knowledge held by one experienced person. AirPlx is what replaces all of it: every aircraft drawn to its real dimensions, in one plan the whole team is working from.

Business jets parked close together on a ramp in the evening, with line crew working between them, hangars and airport buildings behind, and mountains on the horizon — A ramp filling up ahead of one of the biggest sports weekends of the year. Nothing here parked itself, and working out where each aircraft goes is the problem that started AirPlx.

How we build

The product gets built where the work happens.

01

See the work firsthand

We visit operations, walk hangars and ramps, and watch how a shift runs. Door openings, tug paths and clearances come off the site with a tape measure, not off a spec sheet.

02

Build what genuinely helps

Most of what ships started as a customer asking for it. The people running a shift know what would make it easier, and they're usually right.

03

Stay involved after launch

You talk to the people who build AirPlx, not a ticket queue. We keep visiting after go-live, because an operation doesn't stop changing just because it went live.

See what customers asked for, and what shipped

In the field

Where the product comes from.

An AirPlx team member crouched at a hangar door jamb measuring the opening, with two business jets parked inside the hangar behind him — Measuring a hangar door opening at a customer site. Door width and clearance decide what fits inside, so we take the numbers ourselves rather than trusting a drawing.

A young child at a kitchen table reaching out to drag an aircraft on the AirPlx base view, shown on an iPad propped in a keyboard case — A five-year-old found AirPlx on an iPad and stacked aircraft into a hangar with nobody showing her how. Her review: "It's really good, Dad, but it should be a little more rainbow."

A utility pit set into a hangar floor, its yellow cover flush with the concrete, a power cable running out of one edge and a painted position marking beside it — A utility pit in a hangar floor, photographed on a site visit. Details like this decide where an aircraft can sit, so we take them off the floor rather than off a drawing.

How we operate

Independent by design.

AirPlx is bootstrapped and independently operated. Nobody outside the company gets to decide what we build next, which is why we can keep making decisions that only pay off in a few years.

Today

Who runs on AirPlx.

AirPlx runs at FBOs, MRO facilities, airport authorities and multi-base operators. Some are planning one hangar. Some are coordinating a whole field across several bases.

What they've got in common is the part of the operation nobody had ever written down: where each aircraft is, what it takes to move it safely, and what the last shift already did about it.

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+10%

Nightly hangar revenue, from better use of the hangar they already had

Jet Aviation Milwaukee

“We used to go downstairs, stand in the hangar … and argue over what could fit where. We tended to be conservative in our estimates.”

Jon Zelie

General Manager

Jet Aviation Milwaukee

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Two members of the AirPlx team in high-visibility vests on a customer ramp, with a vehicle, a business jet and a fuel truck behind them — On location in safety vests.

A Polaroid photograph resting on a counter, showing two members of the AirPlx team standing together, one holding an AirPlx sticker — The same two, in the war room.