RYDA Planes · In design
Fractional access to private aviation, structured the same way.
We're building Planes the way we built Cars and Boats — member-managed LLCs, single-airframe per LLC, real ownership rather than card-time. Different operating model (Part 91 vs Part 135 matters), different timelines, same doctrine.
Tell us your mission profile
Help us shape the member cohort: jet class, annual hours, primary base. We contact you when a profile-matching airframe and operator pair are ready, not before.
What we're solving for
The problems that broke other fractional aviation programs.
01
Real ownership, not card time
NetJets and Wheels Up sell hours against a fleet. We're targeting the original fractional model, a registered ownership stake in a specific airframe, held in a member-managed LLC.
02
Honest math on operating cost
Per-hour costs hide the true picture. RYDA Planes will publish full annual carrying, hangar, crew, insurance, MX reserves, engine reserves, broken out per share, the same way we do on cars and boats.
03
Operator separation
The LLC owns the airframe. A Part 135 operator runs the flight ops under a separate management agreement. Members retain governance, replacement, sale, modifications, through standard LLC voting.
Timeline
Indicative, not committed.
Aviation regulatory architecture is meaningfully different from ground vehicles. We'd rather list later and get the structure right than ship a half-baked product. Below is the current working plan; nothing here is a contract.
01
Q3 2026
Cars + Boats live in Miami
The two existing verticals operating in market. Operational lessons from real members feed the Planes design.
02
Q4 2026
Member cohort outreach
We talk to the first 20–40 prospective Planes members about mission profile (jet category, hours, base), structure, and operator preference.
03
2027
Operator + airframe selection
Pick the Part 135 operator partner; identify a first airframe (current working hypothesis: a light-jet category like the Phenom 300E or Citation CJ4 Gen2).
04
2028+
First LLC formed
If economics and demand confirm, the first single-airframe LLC takes member funding. Same buy-in / annual operating split / planned exit doctrine as cars and boats, adjusted for the aviation cost stack.
Meanwhile
Cars and Boats are open for early members.
If the Planes thesis resonates, the cars and boats programs run the same playbook. Same LLC structure, same exit doctrine, same professional ops.