Updated October 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team
Aviation website design is the planning, writing and building of websites for businesses that fly, fix, sell, train for or host aircraft, with each site built around the one action its buyers take: a trip request, a fuel or hangar reservation, a booked discovery flight, a repair quote or an aircraft inquiry. We build them for charter operators, FBOs, flight schools, repair stations, aircraft dealers, airports and aerospace suppliers, at fixed published prices. Progression Agency is based in New York City and works with clients across the United States and worldwide.
On this page · 17 sections
- What aviation website design covers, segment by segment
- Charter website design for charter operators and air taxi
- FBO website design: fuel, hangar and arrival pages
- Flight school website design that turns visits into discovery flights
- Aircraft maintenance website design for MRO shops and repair stations
- Aircraft sales website design for dealers and brokers
- Airport website design: alerts, flights, meetings and accessibility
- Airline website design and the full-price rule
- Aerospace website design for suppliers and manufacturers
- Aviation website templates or a custom build?
- Speed and mobile performance on the ramp
- Redesigning an aviation site without losing rankings
- AI answers: how travelers, crews and students ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot about aviation providers
- How much does aviation website design cost?
- How long does an aviation website build take?
- How to choose an aviation web design company
- Related services for aviation businesses
The short answerAn aviation site earns its keep when each segment gets its own page map: fleet and trip-request pages for charter, fuel, hangar and arrival pages for an FBO, a course catalog and discovery-flight booking for a school, capability and quote pages for a repair station. The federal rules that govern broker, public charter and fare advertising are written into the pages from the start. Success is measured in requests, reservations and enrollments by source. A brochure site with us starts at $9,500 and takes 6 to 8 weeks; integrations are scoped separately.
Federal rules quoted here were read in October 2026 in the eCFR text of 14 CFR Parts 141, 295, 380 and 399, on ADA.gov, web.dev and aviationweather.gov, and can change. All prices are Progression’s own published figures, and every build is scoped in writing.
What aviation website design covers, segment by segment
It covers a different site for each kind of aviation business, because a charter traveler, a transient pilot, a student and a maintenance director want different things from the first screen. The work is a page map, the forms that capture a priced request, the content that proves you are who you say you are, and the build that keeps it fast.
| Segment | The site’s first job | Conversion path |
|---|---|---|
| Charter operators and air taxi | Show the fleet and the certificate holder | Trip request with route, dates and passengers |
| Charter brokers | Explain access to operators and the broker role | Trip request, then a quote naming the operator |
| FBOs | Fuel, hangar, crew and passenger services at a glance | Arrival or reservation form, a phone answered on the ramp |
| Flight schools | Courses, aircraft, instructors and the cost basis | Discovery flight booking, then enrollment |
| MRO and repair stations | Capabilities by airframe, engine and component | Quote request with tail number and part fields |
| Aircraft sales and brokerage | Inventory buyers can filter and compare | An inquiry on each listing |
| Airports and authorities | Travel information, alerts and public business | Alerts sign-up, bids, meetings, contact routing |
| Aerospace suppliers | Processes, materials and approvals held | Request for quote with drawings attached |
Aviation website design services we provide
Our aviation web design services run from page mapping, copywriting and photography direction to design, development on WordPress or a headless stack, forms and tracking, structured data, speed work, accessibility testing and launch with redirects. Integrations with quoting, scheduling, dispatch or flight information systems are added as scoped projects.
Who is aviation website design for?
Owners, accountable managers, directors of operations, chief instructors, airport managers and marketing leads at aviation businesses in all 50 states and abroad. FAA and DOT rules on this page are US rules; an operator outside the US follows its own civil aviation authority, and we build to that authority’s requirements instead.
Where this page stops
Ongoing marketing, search, paid media and the full list of advertising rules for operators, brokers and schools sit on our aviation marketing agency page. This page is about the site itself: what goes on it, how it is built and what it costs.
Charter website design for charter operators and air taxi
A charter site wins when a traveler can judge the aircraft and send a request that dispatch can price without a callback. That means one page per aircraft type, a trip-request form with the fields that set the price, and a plain statement of who operates the flight.
Private jet booking website design: the trip-request path
Keep the first step short: origin, destination, date and passengers. Ask for return legs, luggage, pets, catering and ground transport on the second step, after the traveler has committed. Send every request to dispatch and to your CRM at once, and show a confirmation page that says when a quote will arrive.
| Field | Why it matters for the quote |
|---|---|
| Origin and destination airports | Sets the route, the positioning legs and fuel stops |
| Dates and preferred times | Drives crew duty, aircraft availability and overnight costs |
| One way, round trip or multi-leg | Changes repositioning and wait-day charges |
| Passengers | Decides which aircraft class can fly the trip |
| Luggage, skis, golf bags or oversized items | Rules out cabins and holds that cannot take them |
| Pets | Operators set their own pet rules, often by aircraft |
| Catering and ground transport | Adds line items and lead time |
| Contact and preferred reply channel | Lets dispatch reply by phone, text or email as asked |
Best private jet website: what decides the short list
Real photos of your own aircraft rather than stock cabins, seats, range and cabin dimensions in text a search engine can read, a statement of the certificate holder, safety audit credentials shown only when you actually hold them, and a phone number staffed at all hours. Glossy video helps less than those facts.
Fleet pages that rank and get quoted
Each aircraft type gets its own address with the same fields in the same order: seats, range, speed, cabin height and width, baggage, amenities and the airports it usually flies from. Spec sheets can stay as downloads, but the facts also live on the page, where travelers and search engines can read them.
Brokers: saying which role you play
Under 14 CFR 295.23, every solicitation and advertisement by an air charter broker, internet web pages included, must state clearly and conspicuously that it is an air charter broker, not a direct air carrier in operational control of aircraft, and that a properly licensed carrier will provide the flight. We place that statement in the site footer, on the trip-request page and in the confirmation email, and we keep fleet pages from implying ownership. The live aviation marketing page covers the wider rules; your counsel confirms how they apply.
Public charter pages
Public charter solicitation materials must include the name of the charter operator and the name of the direct air carrier under 14 CFR 380.30. If a page states a price per passenger, it must refer readers to the operator-participant contract for further information or carry the contract’s full text. We build both names and that reference into the trip and pricing templates so no page can be published without them.
FBO website design: fuel, hangar and arrival pages
Transient crews want to know three things before they file: what services you offer, how to reserve, and who answers the radio and the phone. An FBO site should answer all three in one screen on a phone, then go deeper for fuel, hangar, catering, maintenance and passenger amenities.
- Arrival and reservation form: tail number, aircraft type, arrival and departure times, services requested
- Fuel page with fuel types, any program cards you accept, and a price list kept current or a call to confirm
- Hangar and tie-down pages with door dimensions, rates basis and how to request space
- Crew services: lounge, quiet rooms, courtesy cars, crew cars and nearby hotels
- Passenger services: catering, ground transport, conference rooms
- Location page with the airport identifier, a map, after-hours instructions and frequencies you choose to publish
- Contact routing so line service, customer service and management each get their own requests
Fixed base operator website weather widgets
The aviationweather.gov Data API serves METAR observations and TAF forecasts, limits requests to 100 a minute and does not allow cross-origin requests from a browser. So we fetch weather on the server, cache it, and show the airport’s current METAR and TAF on the FBO page without slowing it down or tripping the rate limit.
Showing fuel prices without stale numbers
A posted fuel price that is out of date costs trust at the counter. We connect the price block to whoever updates it, show the date it was last changed, and fall back to “call for today’s price” when an update is overdue.
FBO websites for chains and single locations
A single-location FBO needs one strong location page; a chain needs a page per field with its own services, hours, staff and photos, plus a network page for flight departments that plan across several airports.
Flight school website design that turns visits into discovery flights
Students and the adults who help them choose compare training paths, costs and aircraft before they ever call. Flight school websites that convert answer those questions on the page, then make the discovery flight the easiest thing to book.
Course catalog and the Part 141 line
Under 14 CFR 141.23, a certificated pilot school may not advertise that it is certificated unless it clearly separates courses approved under Part 141 from courses that are not, and it may not make false or misleading statements about its certification and ratings. We give every course a page with a label showing its approval status, so the catalog, the comparison table and the enrollment form all say the same thing.
Flight training website design for career students and hobby flyers
Career students want a path from first lesson to commercial certificate; weekend flyers want a private pilot course and a schedule that fits work. Separate landing pages for each, written for adults and the parents who often share the decision, convert better than one page that tries to speak to everyone.
Flight school website cost and financing pages
Training cost depends on aircraft rental, instructor time and the hours a student actually needs, so we write cost pages that explain the basis of the estimate and what changes it. Financing and payment-plan details appear only as your lender or program publishes them.
- Discovery flight booking with aircraft, date and a short pre-flight questionnaire
- A page per certificate and rating with prerequisites and typical schedule
- Fleet pages with aircraft, avionics and rental terms
- Instructor profiles with the certificates each one holds
- Student outcomes only when they are true and you can show the record
- Flight school booking software linked or embedded for enrolled students
Fleet pages still a PDF?Send your aircraft list and your current address. A free proposal follows with the fleet, trip-request and certificate pages we would build first, and the fixed-scope tier that fits.
Aircraft maintenance website design for MRO shops and repair stations
A maintenance director looking for a shop wants proof of capability on a specific airframe, engine or component and a fast way to ask for a slot. The site should read like a capability list, not a brochure.
| Page | What it carries | Who reads it |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities by airframe | Models supported, inspections, modifications | Owners and directors of maintenance |
| Engines and components | Overhaul, repair and exchange programs | Operators and parts buyers |
| Certificates and ratings | Repair station certificate and ratings, shown only as held | Quality and procurement staff |
| Avionics and installations | Panels, upgrades, approvals you hold | Owners planning an upgrade |
| AOG and mobile repair | After-hours contact, coverage area, response terms | Operators with an aircraft on the ground |
| Request a quote | Tail number, aircraft type, work requested, due date, files | Anyone ready to book a slot |
Quote forms that ask the right questions
Tail number, make and model, total time if known, the work requested, part numbers, the date the aircraft must fly again and a place to attach logbook pages or photos. Each answer saves a call and gets the quote back faster.
Credentials stated exactly as held
Show certificate and rating details only as they appear on your certificate, and keep them current. Buyers check claims against public FAA records, which our aviation marketing page lists.
Aircraft sales website design for dealers and brokers
Buyers compare inventory across many sites before they call, so the listing that is easiest to read and filter gets the inquiry. Aircraft sales websites need structured listings, not PDFs and photo galleries alone.
Structured listings and filters
Every listing uses the same fields: make, model, year, serial number, total time, engine and propeller times, avionics, interior and exterior, damage history and price or “call for price”. Filters by category, price and avionics let a buyer narrow a large inventory in seconds.
One inquiry per aircraft
The inquiry form on a listing carries that aircraft’s details into the lead, so the broker knows which aircraft the buyer means. Sold aircraft stay online marked as sold, or redirect to similar inventory, so their search traffic is not wasted.
Aircraft broker website design for acquisition work
Brokers who search for aircraft on a buyer’s behalf need a different page: the process, the fee basis, the inspection and escrow steps, and a short form for the mission profile.
Airport website design: alerts, flights, meetings and accessibility
An airport site serves travelers, tenants, pilots, neighbors, bidders and the press at once. Airport website design starts with the travelers’ questions on the home page and gives public business, tenants and pilots their own clearly labeled sections.
Best airport website design: what the public needs first
Flight status, parking, ground transport, terminal maps, security wait guidance and an alert banner that staff can switch on in seconds. Flight information feeds are integrations quoted after a written scope, because each airport’s system differs.
Public business: meetings, procurement and records
Board and commission meeting pages with agendas, minutes and recordings, a procurement section with open solicitations and addenda, and records request instructions. Each needs an owner on staff and a publishing workflow we set up at launch.
Accessibility and the Title II web rule
The Department of Justice Title II web rule sets WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the technical standard for the web content and mobile apps of state and local governments. After a 2026 interim final rule, the compliance date is April 26, 2027 for entities with a total population of 50,000 or more, and April 26, 2028 for smaller entities and special district governments. If a state or local government runs your airport, those dates apply to its site; our government website design and ADA compliant website design pages cover the details.
Airline website design and the full-price rule
An airline or charter carrier site that shows fares has to show what the passenger will actually pay. That rule shapes fare tables, promotions, booking steps and every place a price appears.
What 14 CFR 399.84 means for the booking path
Under 14 CFR 399.84, advertising by carriers, their agents and ticket agents that states a price for passenger air transportation must state the entire price the customer will pay. Taxes and fees may be listed separately within that total, but never more prominently than the total. We build fare components so the total is computed once and shown everywhere a fare appears.
Airline web design for regional and scheduled charter carriers
Route maps, schedules, baggage and pet policies, the customer service plan and contract of carriage pages, and a booking engine that the airline’s reservations vendor supplies. Our part is the site around it: content, speed, accessibility and the handoff to the booking engine.
Aerospace website design for suppliers and manufacturers
Engineers and buyers in aerospace look for proof of process capability and quality approvals, then send a request for quote with drawings. Aerospace web design that serves them is closer to a technical catalog than a marketing site.
Aerospace company website design: specifications as pages
Processes, materials, tolerances, part families and the quality approvals you hold each get indexable pages; downloadable data sheets support them rather than replace them. Our manufacturing website design page covers the same buyer habits for industrial suppliers.
Export-controlled material
Some aerospace technical data is controlled for export. Your export compliance lead approves what goes online before launch; we build the review step into the publishing workflow.
Helicopter tour, skydiving and drone company website design
Tour operators need routes, seats, weight and weather policies and online booking; our travel website design and booking website design pages cover the reservation side. Drone service firms need a page per service, the certificated remote pilots who fly it and a project request form.
Aviation website templates or a custom build?
A template is a sound start for a single-aircraft operator or a small school that needs to launch quickly. Fleets, catalogs, weather feeds and dispatch-linked forms call for a custom build.
When aviation website templates are enough
One aircraft or a handful of services, no integrations, and an owner who will update the site personally. We can set up a well-chosen template with your content, photos and tracking as a single landing page from $1,400 or a brochure site from $9,500.
When aviation website development pays off
Shared fields across a fleet, structured listings, quote forms that feed dispatch or a CRM, live weather, and airport systems all need real development. Aviation web development of that kind is scoped in writing before it is priced, so you know exactly what the integration does.
Flight school website template or custom?
A school with one location and a short course list can launch on a template and add a booking tool. A school with several bases, a large fleet and separate Part 141 and Part 61 programs needs custom templates for courses and aircraft.
Speed and mobile performance on the ramp
Crews and travelers often load your site on a phone at an airport with a weak connection. Pages that load and respond fast on mobile get the reservation; heavy video headers lose it.
| Metric | Good threshold | Where aviation sites usually fail |
|---|---|---|
| Largest Contentful Paint | 2.5 seconds or less | Full-screen aircraft video or uncompressed hero photos |
| Interaction to Next Paint | 200 milliseconds or less | Heavy booking widgets and chat scripts on every page |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.1 or less | Weather and fuel blocks that load late and push content down |
Google’s Core Web Vitals guidance measures these at the 75th percentile of page loads, with mobile and desktop assessed separately, so we test on mid-range phones over slow connections, not only on office broadband.
Photos that look sharp and load fast
Aircraft photography sells charter and sales, so we keep it, served in modern formats at the size each screen needs, with the first image prioritized and the rest loaded as the visitor scrolls.
Redesigning an aviation site without losing rankings
Most aviation businesses already rank for their own name, their airport and a few services. A redesign keeps those rankings when every old address is mapped to a new one and the content that earned them survives.
- Crawl the current site and export every address that has traffic or links.
- Map each old address to its new page before design starts.
- Carry over titles, headings and copy that rank, then improve them.
- Test redirects, forms and tracking on a staging site.
- Launch, submit the new sitemap and watch search coverage for errors.
- Compare requests and rankings against the pre-launch baseline after four and twelve weeks.
Restyle or rebuild?
If the structure and content work and the site only looks dated, a restyle in place starts at $4,800 and carries no ranking risk. For a full rebuild, our SEO services pricing page lists a technical SEO audit from $1,900 and migration support with redirect mapping from $3,200, and the free initial audit costs nothing. See website redesign services for the full process.
Running an FBO, a school or a repair station?Tell us which services bring in the most revenue and which forms your staff answer today. We reply with a free proposal and a page map for your operation.
AI answers: how travelers, crews and students ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot about aviation providers
People now ask an assistant for a charter operator out of a named airport, an FBO with a hangar for a specific jet, or a flight school near them with a Part 141 program. The assistants answer from sites, directories, reviews and listings that state those facts plainly.
The questions they type
Each names an airport or city, an aircraft or service and a constraint: a midsize jet from a named field for six passengers, an FBO with 24-hour line service, an avionics shop that installs a particular panel, a school that trains on a specific aircraft.
What assistants can lift from a site
Question headings with short answers beneath, fleet facts in text, airport identifiers, service lists, course lists with approval status and a clear statement of who operates the flight. A site that hides those facts in images or PDFs gives an assistant little to quote.
What to publish so you are named
Write out the airports you serve, the aircraft you fly or maintain, the services and ratings you hold and your hours, and make every directory and profile match. Structured data should describe the same facts the page shows. The ongoing work is set out on our answer engine optimization page.
How much does aviation website design cost?
With us, a single landing page starts at $1,400, a 5 to 8 page brochure site at $9,500 and a 10 to 16 page business site at $18,000. Integrations with dispatch, quoting, scheduling or flight information systems are quoted after a written scope.
| Build | Published price | Timeline | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single landing page | From $1,400 | 1 to 2 weeks | A charter route, a discovery flight offer or an FBO promotion |
| Restyle in place | From $4,800 | 3 to 5 weeks | A site that works but looks dated |
| Brochure site, 5 to 8 pages | From $9,500 | 6 to 8 weeks | A single-aircraft operator, a small school or a shop |
| Business site, 10 to 16 pages | From $18,000 | 8 to 13 weeks | A fleet, an FBO with several services, a larger school |
| Site plus content program, 30 to 60 pages | From $36,000 | 14 to 20 weeks | Charter fleets with route pages, airports, suppliers |
| Ecommerce, under 200 SKUs | From $34,000 | 12 to 18 weeks | Pilot supplies or parts sold online |
| Accessibility remediation | From $4,000 | 3 to 6 weeks | An existing site brought to WCAG 2.2 AA |
| Integrations and feeds | Quoted after a written scope | Set in the scope | Dispatch, quoting, FIDS, scheduling, listings |
What is scoped separately
Fleet databases, instant-quote tools, booking and scheduling integrations, flight information feeds, airport content management systems and listing imports. Each depends on the vendor’s interface, so we read its documentation before quoting.
Hosting and maintenance
Hosting stays in your name. Maintenance, which covers updates, backups with a tested restore and uptime monitoring, runs $50 to $250 a month for a small site and is optional. Market context on prices across the industry is on our website cost guide.
How long does an aviation website build take?
A brochure site takes 6 to 8 weeks and a business site 8 to 13 weeks from the signed scope, if content and photos arrive on time. Airport sites with several systems take longer and get a timeline in their scope.
What we need from you
Your aircraft or service list, certificate and rating details exactly as held, photos or access for a shoot, logins for the current site and analytics, and one person who can approve pages within a few days.
After launch
We watch forms, redirects, speed and search coverage for the first weeks, and send a report on requests by source. Ongoing search work, if you want it, runs on our SEO services retainers from $1,500 a month.
How to choose an aviation web design company
Pick the one that asks about your dispatch, your certificate and your forms before it shows you designs, and that gives you a fixed scope and price in writing. Aviation knowledge shows in the questions, not the portfolio.
| Requirement | How to check it |
|---|---|
| A written page map before design | Ask for the map and the forms in the proposal |
| Rules for brokers, public charters and fares understood | Ask where the broker or carrier statements will appear |
| Fleet and listing facts as text, not only PDFs | Ask to see how a fleet or listing page is structured |
| A redirect plan for the old site | Ask for the redirect list format and who tests it |
| Speed targets on mobile | Ask which Core Web Vitals thresholds they test against |
| Accessibility testing | Ask which WCAG version and level they test to, and how |
| Accounts, domain and hosting in your name | Confirm ownership in the contract |
| A fixed price with integrations listed | Check that every integration has its own line |
Questions to ask before you sign
Who writes the content? Who takes the photos? What happens to our current rankings? Which forms go where? Who updates fuel prices, listings and alerts after launch? What does a change cost once the site is live?
Best aviation website design: the short version
One clear audience per page, the facts buyers check written as text, forms that collect a priceable request, fast pages on a phone and statements that match federal rules and your certificate. Everything else is decoration.
Related services for aviation businesses
These pages cover the work around the site: marketing, search, booking, accessibility and builds for neighboring sectors.
- Aviation marketing agency for leads, search and advertising rules
- Website design and development with the full fixed-scope table
- Web development services for custom integrations
- Booking website design for tours, lessons and reservations
- Travel website design for air tours and travel brands
- Hotel website design for airport hotels and resorts
- Manufacturing website design for aerospace suppliers
- Government website design for airport authorities
- ADA compliant website design and accessibility remediation
- Website redesign services that protect rankings
- Website development cost explained
- SEO services after launch
- SEO services pricing for audits and migrations
- Logistics marketing agency for cargo and freight forwarders
- Conversion rate optimization for quote and booking forms
- Landing page design for route and course campaigns
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Frequently asked questions
What is included in aviation website design?
How much does website design cost for an aviation business?
How much do web designers charge to build a website for a flight school or FBO?
When is it time for a charter, FBO or flight training business to redesign its site?
How do you design a private jet website?
Which pages and fields does a Part 135 charter operator’s site need?
Which pages turn flight school visitors into discovery flights and enrollments?
What do transient crews expect to find on an FBO’s site before they arrive?
What should an MRO or repair station website include?
Why do airport sites need features that ordinary company sites lack?
How long do airport site rebuilds with flight information feeds run?
What accessibility standard and deadlines apply to a public airport website?
Can we show safety ratings and certificates on our website?
Should a small charter operator use a template or a custom site?
Can the website take trip requests and bookings online?
How many weeks does a charter, FBO or flight school site take with you?
Does a charter broker’s website have to say it is a broker?
What must a public charter web page show?
Can an FBO show live weather on its website?
Can we move our charter or FBO site to a new build and keep the airport rankings it has?
Do you build websites for aviation companies outside the United States?
Can you handle aviation marketing and search after the site launches?
What makes the best aviation website design for an aircraft dealer?
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