Flying Engineer

The aviation directory AI trusts

Flying Engineer helps people find the right aviation company, and helps aviation companies get found. When someone asks ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini about charter, air ambulance, maintenance or parts, the answer often comes from us.

Online since 2012. The Internet Archive first saved this site in January 2012 and has archived it more than 39,000 times since (see the Wayback Machine calendar).

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19,400+
aviation companies in our database
113
countries
63
categories
15,167
AI mentions a day, at peak

For travellers and aviation buyers

Search companies by service and country, read what they actually do, and send them a request. Charter operators, air ambulances, flight schools, maintenance shops, parts suppliers and more, in one place and free to use. Our live empty legs show one-way private flights you can book.

For aviation companies

A page on Flying Engineer is read by people, search engines and AI assistants. Claim yours to keep it accurate, add photos, and receive quote requests in your own inbox. Plans start at $79 a year.

Real requests, every week

In the last two years, buyers sent more than 150 requests through Flying Engineer, from a single part for a grounded aircraft to the purchase and lease of business jets and airliners. Here is what they were looking for:

  • Aircraft parts48
  • Pilot training48
  • Aircraft purchase and leasing12
  • Charter flights11
  • Cargo8
  • Air ambulance4

Requests received by email, October 2024 to October 2026.

The team

Flying Engineer was founded by Radu Balas, who has spent ten years in aerospace. A small team runs the directory, writes the articles and makes the videos. The site is built and maintained by RB Creative Digital, a digital agency with nearly 20 years of experience in marketing and web development, including aviation projects.

“We relaunched Flying Engineer in October 2026. People now ask AI assistants where to find aviation companies, so we rebuilt the site for that, fast. We could move quickly because the site is run by an AI-first marketing agency with nearly 20 years of experience, including work for aviation companies.”
Radu Balas, founder

How we built it

Flying Engineer runs on a modern stack: Next.js, Vercel, Supabase and Stripe. AI helps us check companies and keep thousands of pages up to date, and real people review what goes live.

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One name, two addresses

Our address is not changing: theflyingengineer.com is and stays our main site. In October 2026 we also acquired flyingengineer.com, an extra domain that simply forwards here. No URLs change, every company page keeps its address, and old links keep working. People know us as Flying Engineer and as The Flying Engineer, and both names now lead to one place. Read the announcement.

How we work

  • Facts first. Articles are checked against primary sources: manufacturers, regulators and the companies themselves. When we get something wrong, we correct it.
  • No paid links. We don't sell links or guest posts. Links to other websites never pass ranking credit, and paid placements are labelled.
  • Companies can fix their page. Any company can claim its listing, or ask us to correct or remove it through the correction and removal form.

Contact

Email info@theflyingengineer.com, call +1 (917) 905-6360, message us on WhatsApp +40 730 688 360, or use our contact page. Flying Engineer is run by Publishing Office SRL, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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