ch-aviation offers you a very user friendly interface targeted at consumers, professionals and enthusiasts alike to search and analyze commercial and business aviation aircraft ownership details. We have answered the most frequently asked questions below and hope this will address any immediate questions you may have on our fleet ownership section of the site:
How do I use the ownership search form?
You have four different search options to choose from:
- Search by Lessor: Select the Continent (and the Country) for which you would like to display all Lessors based on that Continent or in that Country
- Search by Aircraft Portfolio: Select the Aircraft Details you would like to see in Lessors’ Portfolios. You can search by Market Group, Manufacturer, Aircraft Family, Aircraft, Type, Model and/or Variant.
- Search by Engines: To narrow down your Lessor portfolio search, select the engines you would like to display from the dropdown lists.
- Filters: Use the Aircraft Role dropdown menu to choose the particular aircraft roles to perform or narrow down your search. You may opt to list the Lessors with a particular number of aircraft in the portfolio by using the Aircraft in Portfolio Filter (from and to numbers to be entered, i.e. from 5 to 20 aircraft). The Aircraft in Country Filter will provide you with Lessor portfolios that include aircraft registered in the country of choice.
What are registrations and what about C/N and MSN?
Every aircraft is assigned a registration when it is added to the civil aircraft register of a country that is a combination of a country prefix and a registration/tail number. For example, A6 is the country prefix for the United Arab Emirates; A6-ETD is a registration of a Boeing 777-300ER of Etihad Airways.
C/N stands for construction number, for most manufacturers these numbers are assigned in ascending order by production date. Some manufacturers such as Boeing also assign a Manufacturer Serial Number in addition.
Does ch-aviation have fleet list information for every Lessor and aircraft type?
ch-aviation is tracking over 1000 different aircraft owners. We only provide fleet list information for a specific set of aircraft types but cover all relevant aircraft types in commercial and business aviation service today with the exception of some regional types.
The following commercial aviation aircraft types are currently covered:
- Airbus A300/A310 / A318/A319/A320/A321 / A330/A340 / A350 / A380 / A400
- Airbus Canada A220
- Antonov An-124 / An-148/158/178 / An-22* / An-225 / An-12*
- ATR 42/72
- BAe ARJ-70/85/100 / BAe 146-100/-200/-300 / ATP / Jetstream 31* / Jetstream 32* / Jetstream 41
- Beechcraft 99 Airliner*
- Boeing B707/720 / B717 / B727 / B737 / B747 / B757 / B767 / B777 / B787
- Bombardier CRJ-100/200/700/900/1000
- Cessna 408 SkyCourier
- Concorde
- COMAC ARJ21 / C919
- Dassault Aviation Mercure
- De Havilland Aircraft of Canada DHC-8
- De Havilland Canada DHC-6 / DHC-7
- Dirgantara Indonesia N219
- Dornier 228/328/728
- Embraer EMB-120 / C123 / ERJ-135/-140/-145 / EMB-170/175/190/195 / EMB-390
- Fokker 28/70/100 / Fokker 50/60
- Ilyushin 18* / 62 / 76* / 86 / 96 / 114
- Yakovlev MC-21 / SSJ
- Lockheed L1011 / L-749 Constellation / L-1049 Super Constellation / L-188
- McDonnell Douglas DC-6 / DC-8 / DC-9 / DC-10 / MD-11 / MD-80/90
- Mitsubishi MRJ90
- Saab 2000 / 340
- Tupolev Tu-134* / Tu-154 / Tu-204/214 / Tu-334
- VFW-614
- Viking Air DHC-6-400
- Xian Aircraft Company MA-60/600
- Yak-42
The following business aviation aircraft types are currently covered:
- Adam Aircraft Industries - AdamJet
- Aérospatiale - Corvette
- Airbus – ACJ220-100 / ACJ318-100 / ACJ319-100 / ACJ319-100N / ACJ320-200 / ACJ320-200N / ACJ321-200 / ACJ330-200 / ACJ340-300 / ACJ340-500 / ACJ340-600
- Beechcraft / Hawker Beechcraft / BAe Systems / Hawker Siddeley / Raytheon Aircraft Corporation - HS-125 series 1 / HS-125 series 3 / HS-125 series 400 / HS-125 series 600 / HS-125 series 700 / BAe series 800 / Hawker 750 / Hawker 1000 / Hawker 800 / Hawker 850XP / Hawker 900XP / Hawker 4000 / Hawker 200 / Beechjet 400 / Hawker 400 / Beechcraft Premier I / Beechcraft Premier IA
- Boeing - B737-700(BBJ) / B737-8(BBJ) / B737-800(BBJ) / B737-9(BBJ) / B737-900(BBJ) / B747-8(BBJ) / B777-300ER(BBJ) / B787-8(BBJ) / B787-9(BBJ)
- Bombardier Aerospace - Global 6500 / Global 6000 / Global 5500 / Global 5000 / Global 7500 / Global Express / Challenger 300 / Challenger 350 / Challenger 3500 / Challenger 600 / Challenger 601 / Challenger 604 / Challenger 605 / Challenger650 / Challenger 800 (CRJ100) / Challenger 800 (CRJ200) / Challenger 850 / Challenger 870 / Learjet 40 / Learjet 45 / Learjet 60 / Learjet70 / Learjet 75 / Learjet 85
- Cessna Aircraft Company - Citation / Citation I / Citation II / Citation III / Citation V / Citation VI / Citation VII / Citation X / Citation Bravo / Citation Ultra / Citation Encore / Citation Excel / Citation XLS / Citation Sovereign / Citation Latitude / Citation Longitude / Citation Jet / Citation Jet 1 / Citation Jet 2 / Citation Jet 3 / Citation Jet 4 / Citation M2
- Cirrus Aircraft - Vision Jet / Vision Jet G2
- Dassault Aviation - Falcon 10 / Falcon 100 / Falcon 20/ Falcon 50 / Falcon 900 / Falcon 2000 / Falcon 7X / Falcon 8X / Falcon 6X
- Eclipse Aviation - Eclipse 500 / Eclipse 550
- Embraer - Legacy 450 / Legacy 500 / Legacy 600 / Legacy 650 / Praetor 500 / Praetor 600 / Phenom 100 / Phenom 300 / Lineage 1000
- Epic Aircraft - Epic Elite / Epic Victory
- Gates Learjet / Lear Jet (1962) - Learjet 23 / Learjet 24 / Learjet 25 / Learjet 28 / Learjet 29 / Learjet 31 / Learjet 35 / Learjet 36 / Learjet 55
- Grob Aircraft - Grob G180 SPn
- Gulfstream Aerospace - G100 / G150 / G200 / G280 / G300 / G350 / G400 / G450 / GVII-G500 / GVII-G600 / G550 / G650 / G700
- Honda Aircraft - HondaJet / HondaJet Elite
- Israel Aerospace Industries - Jet Commander 1121 / Westwind 1123 / Westwind 1124 / Astra 1125 / Astra SPX / Astra Galaxy
- Lockheed - CL329 / Jetstar I / Jetstar II
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm - HFB-320 Hansa
- Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation - Diamond I / Diamond IA
- Rockwell International - Sabreliner 40 / Sabreliner 50 / Sabreliner 60 / Sabreliner 65 / Sabreliner 75 / Sabreliner 80
- SyberJet Aircraft - SyberJet SJ30
- Textron Aviation - Cessna aircraft after 2014
Please note that any other aircraft types not listed above will not be displayed in operator fleet list summaries or detail displays and by policy we will only add other aircraft types once we have the entire production list available up to ch-aviation standards. We are however constantly working on the addition of more aircraft types and will advise once they have been made available.
* Only active aircraft as of 2000 are listed.
Are all aircraft ordered but not yet delivered displayed in the fleet overview per carrier?
It is ch-aviation policy to only start displaying aircraft in fleet lists of carriers once either the construction number (c/n) or manufacturer serial number (MSN) is known, so the answer is no. The time period before delivery when we typically learn about the c/n and/or MSN assignments for aircraft orders varies by manufacturer.
What does SPV stand for?
SPV stands for Special Purpose Vehicle.
How can I report errors found or updates I would like to provide to the ch-aviation team?
We are maintaining records for tens of thousands of aircraft and use a wide range of very different types of sources throughout the world to keep them as up to date as possible. Should you still come across an error, omission or have an update for us, you can simply click on the envelope behind each aircraft to immediately send the responsible fleet list editor at ch-aviation a message.